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- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: I do not take from Deputy Adams the question of repayment and banks. The Deputy knows well that what we must do is put a process in train where answerability and the truth will come out. I do not take for granted the ranting of Deputy Pearse Doherty behind Deputy Adams.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: I think Deputy Mattie McGrath was a member of the Fianna Fáil Party when all of this went on. I take it he was very supportive of what happened then.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Yes, but I assume a parliamentary inquiry would have the moral authority to call former politicians of influence and who were in office to give their recollections and accounts of what happened in the lead-in to the bank guarantee.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: I assume our predecessors in government who served with the Deputy in high office would have the opportunity and a willingness to come to a parliamentary inquiry to explain why this was allowed to happen.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Why did a Government appoint someone to head up a report group that separated the Central Bank from regulators and introduce light touch regulation in the first place? Can the Deputy explaine why all of these occasions were taking place between bankers and high members of the Government and say what was discussed at all of these things?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: This is what the culture has led to where the decision was made.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The tapes to which we have listened and heard on the national airwaves were recorded after the bank guarantee.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: We had the Nyberg inquiry which was held in private after the bank guarantee.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: We need to have a public parliamentary inquiry with a specific set of terms of reference to find out the truth in so far as we can.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The people want to know that justice will be done.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: There will be a criminal trial with a judge and jury and that takes its own course.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Government extended the period of office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement for the preparation of his report.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The Garda has done its job and that has all been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. I understand books of evidence are being prepared. That process takes its own independent course.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: We must find out in the House who were the masters at the time and who was supposed to be in charge of the country. It was the Government. We do not have a scrap of evidence about who visited whom, what was said, why decisions were not recorded, whether a decision was taken not to record any of this and why was it that this culture erupted.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Micheál Martin was part of that environment. I am not suggesting he was involved directly in any of it-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: -----but he was a member of the Government and the people are entitled to know why the Government had incorporeal meetings at 3 a.m. They are entitled to know about the political environment in which all of these agents operated.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The banks were agents of the Government and the issue was to keep the property bubble booming, keep prices up and keep people getting mortgages they could not pay back for very many years.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: The whole lot went over the edge and here we are.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: Evidence is now coming out on the airwaves of the comments, attitude, arrogance and condescension towards the people who were treated as pawns in a game.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)
Enda Kenny: We need to find out the truth. When the legislation goes through, we will start that process in a parliamentary forum.