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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Regarding Pat Finucane, obviously I cannot direct the British Government here. I have reminded the Prime Minister clearly that this House unanimously, without dissent, agreed that there should be a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. That was the decision of Judge Cory. That was the decision at Weston Park. That was the decision to which both Governments signed up. I did make...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: We already have a committee dealing with the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, of which Deputy McHugh is well aware. The two Governments are co-guarantors of the Good Friday Agreement. I do not see why we cannot put together an assessment of what has worked well in it. We know the issues that are still outstanding. The Oireachtas committee, the Assembly committee and both...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not believe there was any deliberate intention of not keeping us in the loop, as it were. I have seen some of the comments that it was expected such an announcement was to be made. I will have to come back to the Deputy on whether we got a copy of the announcement in advance. The relationship between both Governments is very good, as well as that between officials in my Department...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his comments. I will, of course, be very happy to continue to make the case very strongly that we in this House and the Oireachtas believe a full public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane should be carried out. I repeat this every time I have the opportunity to address the British Prime Minister directly. It is the view of all parties in the House, without...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I share the Deputy's view in this regard. I note the comments made by President Obama in Belfast and it is more than appropriate that he should make them, given his own background and the situation that arose in the southern states of the United States in the 1960s when James Meredith arrived to go to college, or following the decision taken by Rosa Parks not to give up her seat on the bus,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I welcomed the initiative announced in Downing Street on 14 June which followed publication of the document, Together: Building a United Community, a strategy for good relations from the Northern Ireland Executive. Generally, we have always been involved to some degree or other in North-South developments. This sends a strong message that Northern Ireland is open for business, focusing on...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I did not have information on it, but perhaps the Department was notified; I do not know. As I said in reply to the Deputy's earlier question, I met the representatives of those affected by the Kingsmill massacre and the South East Fermanagh Foundation. In most of these cases departmental officials meet the members of the group beforehand to make arrangements for meetings. They recently...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am a very strong supporter of the concept the Deputy is talking about. I know about this first hand from the collaboration and co-operation among communities in localities along particular routes. For instance, I had the privilege of launching the official opening of the Beara-Breifne Way between Castletownbere, County Cork, and Breifne, County Leitrim, the route of the march of O'Sullivan...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: The tapes mentioned here were supplied to the Garda Síochána over four years ago as part of its investigation into matters at Anglo Irish Bank. Those investigations have led to a number of criminal charges being brought against individuals. As the Garda is the body responsible for criminal investigations in the State under statute-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----it was informed of this type of behaviour. That is the reason those tapes went directly into Garda possession from Anglo Irish Bank under warrant. The Deputy talks about a cover-up. My God, the fact is that following those investigations criminal charges have been preferred against a number of individuals. That process is in train. I believe that the legislation currently going...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----given that they have been crucified economically, and into the next generation, because of what happened. We see the condescending way individuals treated this as a matter of fun and games. We need to find out about the entire process leading to that culture and environment of hail-fellow-well-met, we are all part of this process, keep it rolling, keep providing those high mortgages,...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I agree with the Deputy's last comment about honesty and truth. It has been a privilege to have been leader of a Government which has dealt with the Presidency of the European Union for the last six months.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: This morning the file on Horizon 2020 was agreed. Yesterday, the file on CO2 emissions was agreed. The Minister for Finance will be working hard tomorrow and tomorrow night on the question of bank resolution and bank recovery towards banking union, which is all part of this. We hope that the discussions currently under way with the Tánaiste in respect of the multiannual financial...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: We are interested in finding out facts and the truth. We will bring the legislation through the Dáil and the Seanad, we will set up the parliamentary inquiry and define the terms of reference for that, and we will move forward on getting accountability and the truth in the interest of the people. As I said, next year is a different story in the context of the charges being brought...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 24, inclusive, together. When I last addressed the House on Northern Ireland, I indicated that the focus of political leadership in Northern Ireland needed to be on maintaining and creating jobs through economic recovery and building a shared future. These were the principal themes of my bilateral meeting with the British Prime Minister in March and in...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: The buck stops with the Government and I am going after them. I do not have the authority or the mandate to adjudicate in a court of law-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----on whether persons have broken the law and should be charged and sentenced. Clearly, the people demand justice and the process of a criminal trial is under way. When the Department of Finance became aware of the kind of questionable behaviour in Anglo Irish Bank, the Garda Síochána, as the appropriate authority, was informed immediately. Under statute law, the Garda...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin knows from his personal Ministry whether he ever met with any of them and I am not suggesting he did.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: Other people in the Government of which Deputy Micheál Martin was a member certainly did meet them and remained in their company for some time, whether at social occasions or whatever. I have no evidence of bankers coming to meet Ministers in the Department of the Taoiseach. At a number of occasions where meetings took place with previous taoisigh about this matter, no decisions were...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----what decisions were taken and why it was that this culture came to a point where it was a continuous stream of pressure on people to take out mortgages to buy properties at ever inflated prices to keep builders and friends of the banks and the Government on a path for endless prosperity?