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State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----or did go and sign on and then spoke only-----

State Visits (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----of a national narrow interest. It ill behoves Deputy Martin to come in here and lecture all those about what they should be doing now when he has 14 years of failure under his belt.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is aware that the Government has initiated a comprehensive spending analysis and review for the first time ever under the new department for public expenditure and reform. The new Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin, will have clarity about the value for money we are getting for moneys Voted for in this House. This is the place where the issues raised by the Deputy should be debated....

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and there is a sensitivity about that. I share the Deputy's view that no more than any other Department, the Department of Education and Skills is and should be subject to a comprehensive spending analysis to determine, within the constraints that are upon us, what best effect we can get in delivering services for children in order that they can give of their best and achieve their...

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. a8, motion re establishment of select committees; No. b8, motion re establishment of Select Committee on European Union Affairs; No. c8, motion re establishment of Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement; No. d8 - motion re establishment of Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions, No. e8, motion re Standing Orders 79,...

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: May I correct one or two of the points Deputies made?

Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: In response to the issues raised by Deputies Martin, McDonald and Higgins, in the last number of Dáileanna we had so many committees that Deputies were running from one committee room to another to make up quorums to commence meetings which then disintegrated. What we have looked at is a restructuring of the way in which committee work is carried out in the House. It is true that the work...

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. As I outlined in my response to questions in this House on 24 May, I met with Prime Minister Cameron in Government Buildings on the evening of Wednesday, 18 May. Our discussions focused on the complete transformation of the relationship between Britain and Ireland in recent years. The closeness of that relationship has been demonstrated by...

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin is wrong in his assertions. I did of course raise the question of Ireland's IMF-EU-ECB bailout deal with the British Prime Minister and told him of the changes that Ireland was making to comply with the conditions of that deal. He was favourably disposed towards Ireland and was forthright in his pronouncement that, by and large, the Treasury would be supportive of Ireland's...

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Not at that stage.

Official Engagements (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Again, I disagree with the Deputy. When I met the Prime Minister in Downing Street, I thanked him for the bilateral loan from Britain and a number of other countries to Ireland. I did not go there specifically to seek a reduction in the interest rate on that loan. I thanked the Prime Minister for the expeditious manner in which his Government, along with Sweden and Denmark, made the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin started with an assertion that I said we are funded until 2014 in all circumstances. That is not what I said. The Deputy is aware that the bailout deal goes well into 2013. The position is that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, yesterday set out clearly the situation in so far as answering the questions he was asked. He said quite clearly that he is not prepared to negotiate on...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I made that clear to all and sundry at the first meeting of the European Heads of Government. It is time for Europe to focus on what it needs to do to help countries which are making a committed and genuine effort to get out of the economic difficulties they face.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: It is also a necessity to focus on restructuring the kind of system that will apply under the ESM when it comes into operation in July 2013. We do not want a situation where one enters a mechanism out of which one cannot get. That is an issue I intend to raise at the meeting of the European Heads of Government later this month. In essence, Ireland is not conceding on its 12.5% corporate tax...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: When Mr. Papandreou spoke to me before the meeting in Brussels, he was seeking a 2% reduction in the interest rate, as well as an extension of time, and I told him we would be highly supportive of helping the Greek people and Government in their difficulties. As matters stood, Greece was not within the EFSF but was outside that mechanism and a 1% reduction was given, as well an extension of...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: First, the reason we are having this discussion this morning and many other discussions for the last number of years is because in the first instance of the lousy legacy left by the inability of Deputy Martin's colleagues when in Government.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: I refer to the deal negotiated by the Government of which Deputy Martin was a member with the IMF-ECB-EU, when he refused to tell the truth-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: ----about Mr. Chopra being here in the first place. It has been renegotiated by the present Government in respect of a reversal of the cut in the minimum wage-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----which affected a raft of lower paid workers. There also has been a renegotiation in respect of introducing a jobs initiative to stimulate the indigenous economy, with regard to changes made to dysfunctional banks, which the previous Government refused to face for more than two and a half years-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and in respect of no further transfers to NAMA.