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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Accurate and factual.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am interested in the Deputy's range of views. She talked about being bland and general. Deputy Martin talked about being banal and general. I have listed six or eight specific issues in the reply I gave to both Deputies. They are not generalities; they are quite specific about where we stand and where we want to be. Deputy Mary Lou MacDonald finds it worrying that we should be helpful...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy started by saying that my response was full of banal generalities and that it was unclear what the Irish position is. Let me deal with that. I do not think it is a banal generality to say that the place of the UK in the European Union is of real national importance for Ireland, and is a strategic priority for the Government. I said to the Deputy that we also discussed our...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I said to the Deputy that the President of the European Council, Mr. Tusk, intends to inform the leaders of the Council on 15 and 16 October of the state of play in regard to the technical work arising from the visits of the Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, since the June discussion. That is not a banal generality. Deputy Martin asked what Mr. Cameron wants and what the British Government is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is a statement of fact that the British Prime Minister has said he intends to present his proposals after the October European Council.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: On the four points he has started out. These are first, measures to make the European Union more competitive, which are likely to include completion of the Single Market, better regulation and expediting international trade agreements. Does Ireland support those measures? It does.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Second, steps to enhance national sovereignty. This relates to the role of national parliaments as well as the concept of ever-closer union. That needs careful analysis and scrutiny. Third, making the European Union more fair, preventing non-eurozone countries from being disadvantaged by decisions taken solely by the eurozone. The Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron has said repeatedly that he...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. I to 18, inclusive, together. The place of the UK in the European Union is of real national importance for Ireland and is a strategic priority for the Government. We are, therefore, watching developments very closely, engaging with our counterparts and doing all we can to help to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union. When I met with Prime...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: For any person out there now who is under pressure from a landlord who says, "You will have to get out because I am going to increase the rent", the scheme that has already helped 4,000 cases is there for them. The Department of Social Protection will deal with each of those cases individually according to their circumstances and extend the remit it has of their tenancy so they do not have...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: As a public representative, Deputy McDonald is in a position to talk to many people who might be in that category and to tell them the Department is there with money to help them now.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: Between that and rent supplement, modular housing, the allocation of tenancies to homeless people and the results that are now going to come through in the proposals from the Ministers for Finance and the Environment, Community and Local Government, I hope it can have an impact on this in the immediate future.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is not a question of not having an interest. On the issue relating to NAMA and the Northern Ireland portfolio, for example, there are two investigations ongoing, one by the police and one by the parliamentary commission. Questions have been answered at some considerable length here in the House by the Minister for Finance on this matter. Whatever papers or correspondence is necessary or...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: That is another allegation the Deputy makes. It will not be part of our history. NAMA is responsible to the Houses of the Oireachtas, of which Deputy Wallace is a Member. He comes in here week after week with very strong statements and allegations. I cannot say whether what he says is true or whether he can back it up.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am glad the Deputy has gone to the police force and the crime investigations unit but perhaps he does not want these questions raised - or to have somebody raise them on his behalf - at the body to which NAMA is responsible, and through which it is responsible to this House.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: It is not good enough for Deputy Wallace to come in here like this, given that he is the centre of attention for receiving these kinds of allegations. I hope that when such allegations presented to him, the Deputy, who has full privilege in here, demands that proof be given.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I am quite sure Deputy Wallace wants to use that privilege with responsibility.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: If there is an issue here, the questions that have been asked and the questions that have been answered by NAMA mean there is nothing wrong on the seller's side. If there is anything wrong, it seems to be on the purchaser's side.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I suggest the Deputy should write out his list of questions. These can be raised-----

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy wants to find out the truth about these issues. In that case, he must use the facility available to public representatives - in the public interest - in order to ask his questions. I would like the Deputy to furnish to the Committee of Public Accounts the basis of the evidence given to him that will make the allegations he makes stand up.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for going to the Garda and the crime investigations unit. I hope he will supply a full list of questions in order that NAMA can comprehensively address these issues at the Committee of Public Accounts.