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Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: The Taoiseach brought our suggestions to the Chancellor in Berlin two weeks ago. He did likewise during his engagements with President van Rompuy.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: I will do the same at next week's meeting of the General Affairs Council. Our number one focus and priority is to ensure there is a structured ECB intervention in order to provide a proper, meaningful and credible backstop to the major crisis that is swirling around us.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: It is not a belated conversion.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: We have been working on this agenda-----

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: -----since the Government took office.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: If Fianna Fáil Party Deputies engaged more in European affairs committee meetings, Deputy Martin would know exactly what the Government has done.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: We seem to have touched a raw nerve on the other side of the House.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: The Joint Committee on European Affairs sat for two hours yesterday. No member of Fianna Fáil attended.

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: The regulation of product labelling is not the responsibility of my Department, but is overseen by a number of domestic Departments. The Tánaiste's predecessor, Deputy Martin, undertook to discuss with other Departments the possibility of introducing labelling to identify products of illegal Israeli settlements. He reported to the Dáil in November last year on the outcome of those...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: I am not sure if there is a question in that contribution.

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: Deputy Mac Lochlainn and I had an exchange on this general issue during the meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade. We are ad idem in terms of the Government's approach to settlements. As the Tánaiste mentioned in his response to previous questions, we are deeply disturbed by the aggressive action of Israel in respect of settlements. If there is some way we can...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: It is difficult to say that no such produce is circulating because there is no mechanism for clearly identifying and labelling it. There is probably a small amount circulating in the economy. The issue is how to identify it and how to oblige suppliers to label it clearly. That is a matter for the line Ministers and the issue has been explored. There is no appetite to go down the road of...

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10, 24 and 37 to 40, inclusive, together. When EU and euro area leaders met on 26 October, they agreed a comprehensive package of measures to restore stability to the euro area. The deal covers all the key issues, including bank recapitalisation, debt sustainability for Greece, robust firewalls to prevent contagion, and improved governance within the euro...

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: I do not necessarily share the view that a referendum on treaty change inspires fear. We must go through an important process in this country. If there is a question of changing the balance of competence between member states and the European institutions, a referendum is needed. We will engage in this process if or when the time comes. We should not fear this because it is a very...

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: On the question on the European Central Bank becoming the ruler of our banking system, Deputy Collins's view of the world is very distorted. We have a monetary union that has been in existence for over a decade. The euro is our currency, not somebody else's. It is not in some far-off, distant land and not just the preserve of Brussels; it is our currency and we need it to survive. It...

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: What about the austerity that would mandatorily ensue next month or week if we pulled the plug on the funding coming into the State from both the European Central Bank and the EU-IMF programme? It would begin with a budget adjustment for 2012 of €11 billion. I would like the Deputy to suggest to this House where that money would come from. Who would she tax? Would it be the working...

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: We need to inject a little bit of reality into this debate.

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: I put on record that the European Central Bank is the solution to the euro crisis. It is our task to convince the German Chancellor and the German Government that we have to relax the rules on intervention from the ECB and we have to make the ECB the backstop for the EFSF to ensure that we can continue to fund the services we provide in this State, pay the people in receipt of social welfare...

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: In response to the Deputy Joan Collins's question as to whether there is a plan B, there is no plan B. We have one currency and plan, incorporating every letter of the alphabet, which is to save our currency. That is in the interests of Irish citizens, Irish business and everybody in the Chamber. Finally to answer Deputy's Wallace's question-----

EU Developments (10 Nov 2011)

Lucinda Creighton: -----about whether Europe in its current arrangements-----