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EU Summits. (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: At a recent European People's Party meeting, which several Heads of Government attended, much concern was expressed about the Greek economic situation and how it had got so far out of line. Germany and France broke the Stability and Growth Pact several years ago. Accordingly, the general feeling was there was little point in imposing financial penalties on a country in serious financial...

EU Summits. (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: I support the protection of the euro. I listened to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan, describe what might trigger leaving the euro, a view I do not share. Greece has to re-finance serious loans due shortly. It will have to borrow €53 billion this year to re-finance debts that are expected to rise to €290 billion. The Council's decision...

Departmental Groups. (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will list the working groups chaired by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13727/10]

Departmental Groups. (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: We will not harass the Taoiseach any more this morning.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach got away lightly. I have two questions for him. Has the Government made any arrangement in respect of the proposed children's referendum? Is it likely to be held this year? Perhaps the Taoiseach will outline the position in that regard. While we argue in this House in regard to the various positions we adopt in respect of policies and so on-----

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: I am coming to it. Is the Government prepared to bring before the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service or the Dáil the options it considered in respect of the bail out of Anglo Irish Bank? Would it be appropriate that we have a mechanism for independent assessment of the propositions put forward by Government, Fine Gael and Anglo Irish Bank so that Members of this House will...

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is not true.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: It is a wild comment.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach is not worried about it.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: In September 2004, Deputy Brian Cowen was appointed Minister for Finance. In accepting the seal of office as Minister for Finance, he undertook to defend the interests of the Irish taxpayer and to protect the stability of the Irish economy in so far as that was possible. Yesterday, we saw the culmination of the stewardship of the Taoiseach. On 24 April 2008, a month before he became...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Cowen was the Minister.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is precisely the Taoiseach's problem. He also treats the citizens of this country with contempt.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: He will not listen.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach will not take any other proposition from any other quarter except his own. He comes to the House this morning having imposed a levy - an extra debt of €50,000 - on every family in the country through what he did yesterday. He said the meeting he had in his capacity as Minister for Finance had no relevance to this situation. That is the same thing his predecessor said when...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: My charge is not against Brian Cowen, citizen. It is against the Taoiseach in his capacity as Minister for Finance. He attended a private dinner organised by a person who was then a member of the board of Anglo Irish Bank and was dealing with risk competition in the bank. He met those bankers and he knew there were difficulties in the property sector because of the IMF report on his desk....

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach can treat this with contempt if he wishes-----

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: That is the Taoiseach's nature.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: He also treats the citizens of this country with contempt because he has levied their sons and their daughters for the next generation with a burden they did not cause and for which they were not responsible. In view of the lack of regulation and oversight by the Taoiseach when he was Minister for Finance and now as Taoiseach, he has caused this cataclysmic financial consequence for every...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: We gave the Government an economy in surplus and they blew it.

Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)

Enda Kenny: The Minister is mixing up Anglo Irish Bank and Ireland.