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EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I would like to emphasise that all deposits held with Anglo Irish Bank are safe and covered by the deposit protection scheme for sums of up to €100,000.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I heard that suggestion earlier.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I will try to deal with the questions instead of delivering a conclusion, as it will allow me to be of as much assistance to the House as I can. Deputy Rabbitte asked how much freedom the next Government will have in light of this agreement. It will have as much freedom as I have had since my appointment as Minister for Finance in May 2008. It is important to remember that, when one is...

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Rigorous monitoring is essential and will help to focus public debate where it should be, not on the nonsensical solutions to our economic problems which I read about in the writings of various celebrity economists and which are occasionally echoed in the House.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: He is not the worst of them, in fairness to him. He is open enough about what he is at at any rate.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The next question was put by Deputy-----

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am trying to be of assistance. Did Deputy Noonan ask about the orderly restructuring of debt?

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I wish to inform the House that I am circulating to Members the five documents which set out the policy conditions for the provision of financial support to Ireland by European Union member states and the International Monetary Fund. These documents underpin the three year programme of banking and economic measures on which we have now embarked. The documents are: the Memorandum of Economic...

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: There is none, as yet.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I play the piano in the asylum.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It was a 15-man band.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: There was a full Government decision on all these matters.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I cannot produce documents but they were fully briefed.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It is a licensed bank at present.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: That is yet to be determined.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Yes, there was. That was absolutely the case.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am referring to the past two years.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: How does the Deputy know?

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Chancellor was talking about sovereign debt.

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (Resumed) (1 Dec 2010)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Hoover let the banks collapse, just as a matter of historical interest.