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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: That was because of a decision taken by the Senate, of which you are an esteemed member yourself and, obviously, regularise the position from what was originally intended ... to what was originally intended.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: I would never have said that. I would never say, "Take MacSharry out." I've had many discussions with your good father about politics and the west of Ireland and all the rest of it. And far be it from me to attempt to make a decision that people have as their democratic right at the end of the day. What I did want to do was ... we had set up from ... and this is very ... you're an...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: No-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: No, I ... we had set out numbers to attend on the committee of inquiry into-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: Because a decision was taken, I think, in the Senate-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----that changed that intended structure. So I wanted to regularise the position and that was the reason why.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: But you've acted-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: As God is my judge-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: As God is my-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: As God as my judge here, Senator, you ... the four members from my party who attend here, I have never spoken to them about anything to do with your commission of inquiry. You are entirely independent and I wrote to them to that effect, and they can confirm that to you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: But you're not operating on that basis. I assume-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----you do your business your own way.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: But, as I say, far be it from me, Senator ... for you to ask me a question ... would it be my intention to take out another west of Ireland man from the job that you're doing. That's not ... that's the ridiculous question.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: I made this point to you before, like. What we pointed out here is that in our analysis of the economy you had gross wastage of money - utter inefficiency. You had systems that were neither scrutinised nor analysed and were done away from any accountability of the Oireachtas. And these projections, based on the figures from the ESRI and the Department of Finance were predicated on knowing...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: The figures speak for themselves but the-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----the underlying issue is, as I've said, since 1997 we were focused on running the economy competently, had incompetence in the management of the public finances, and weren't being able to create that.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: No, I don't accept that because we had a very different financial model here.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: But the figures that we set out there-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----were predicated on running public finances competently, running an efficient economy, and focusing on where we should be focused, on getting value for the people's money, being able to have a situation where you didn't tax employment out of existence and where you were able to use the fruits of that economy to help the vulnerable and the disadvantaged. So that's not in those figure, but...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Jul 2015)
Enda Kenny: I've said that the programme for the manifesto speaks for itself. But I've already said to you that Fine-----