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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): G8 Summit (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 11 to 18, inclusive, together. I am pleased that British Prime Minister Cameron has confirmed that this year's G8 summit will be held in Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, as this will no doubt give a great boost to the Border region. I was aware that the British Government was considering Fermanagh as a potential venue and was supportive of that proposal. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): G8 Summit (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: Prime Minister Cameron informed me last year when I was in Britain that it was his intention to consider whether it was suitable to hold the G8 summit at Lough Erne in Fermanagh and he said that he would be privileged to extend an invitation to me, which I, on behalf of the people, am very happy to accept. I understand there are protocols with regard to foreign leaders at that scale...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: I do not disagree with anything Deputy Ó Fearghaíl has said. The apology given by the Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, in respect of Bloody Sunday in Derry came after three decades and in its own way brought closure, tragic though it was, to that issue. The Governments agreed in advance that they would follow the judge's recommendations. It is a moral imperative and a political duty...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy Adams pointed out, the Pat Finucane case occurred 24 years ago today and is still a vivid scar in the memory and the minds of his family. I do not have a hierarchy of victims but the Finucane case is different in the sense that Judge Cory indicated and gave his view that a full public inquiry should be held. We have stated in the House on many occasions that both Governments, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: We have a strategic partnership agreement signed with the British Government but that does not mean one is in another's pockets in any way and I know Deputy Adams did not mean it in that way. The Irish Government took a clear position. That arose a number of years ago from a motion I tabled while on the opposite side of the House calling for a public inquiry based on Judge Cory's...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for his comments. I have actually been ready for some time to meet the Ballymurphy families. It is welcome that the coroner has reversed the decision to suspend the investigations into the killings. First, we needed to decide whether the meeting should be held in Dublin or the North. It will be held here and I understand the Ballymurphy families are anxious to have...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: It could have been 57.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: The debate on the promissory notes takes place later today. The removal of the notes which will be exchanged for long-term Government bonds has an average maturity of 34 or 35 years instead of the seven to eight years' average maturity on what was there. The reduction in the State's general deficit of approximately €1 billion which is 0.6% of GDP per annum will bring us €1...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: The real test and challenge to us all is to get into the business of creating the confidence and the investment climate in which jobs can be created.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: The improved perception of the country from outside means that banks, semi-State companies and lenders can have greater access to, and flexibility in getting, credit. I note the comments of the Governor of the Central Bank in respect of the focus now. We are dealing with investment opportunities through the Cabinet sub-committee. We would like to think that in the Finance Bill coming...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 10, inclusive, together. I have committed to meeting with the Ballymurphy families and fully intend to meet them here in Dublin when the families are ready and a suitable opportunity presents itself. The families have requested another meeting with officials prior to my meeting with them and officials of my Department have been liaising with them to...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: I found the meeting yesterday evening absolutely different in terms of the genuineness of the people concerned, the way they spoke, their stories, their personal accounts of their childhoods and their reflections 50 years on. The Irish Human Rights Commission carried out a report on the symphisiotomy issue four or five years ago. The Magdalen laundries were run by the religious orders. I...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy is a decent man and one of the few who did not suffer from depression because the Government had achieved what it had set out to 18 months ago. I do not know how Deputy Shane Ross is getting on in the meetings around the country with the four mad, wise or angry men - or whatever they are called - or if they are still meeting.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Government set out 18 months ago a very clear strategy for its intention to restructure and re-engineer the promissory notes in order that the State would not have to borrow €3.1 billion every March and repay it based on these notes at high interest rates and continue to do so until 2023 and beyond to an amount of €48 billion in all. The whole Government was involved in the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: I am very glad the Deputy is interested in the aimsir fháistineach. He does not expect me to say that I will give approval to a document I have not seen. His own party did that for long enough. We deal in facts and decisions. I will not speculate on anything that a Minister might bring before the Cabinet. We will deal with issues as they arise and as Ministers present their...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: I withdraw it, if it is not true.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: Lots of people from An Spidéal heard that when gluastáin an Aire Stáit arrived it was about the old bóthar gainimh, the bits of tar and chips and all the good news the Deputy had for them from different funds.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy passed over the hill into Tourmakeady as well. Fair play to him. I do not accept the Deputy's allegations of anti-rural bias. In fact, when the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, presented the budgets for 2012 and 2013, they included specific measures of assistance for small farmers and those involved in agri-business, and for rural areas in general. The Deputy is aware of,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: Ar dtús, chas mé le cuid de na hoifigigh sinsearacha den PSNI ag an deireadh seachtaine agus rinne mé comhbhrón ar son an Rialtais agus ar son mhuintir na tíre as ucht bás Philippa Reynolds, go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam. Bean óg a bhí inti a bhí an-bríomhar san obair a bhí ar siúl aici. Aontaím leis an Teachta...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy referred to promises. I was reared on a diet of somebody belonging to the Deputy's tribe who intended on many occasions to drain the Shannon to sustain the people in the dark years of the economic war, the objective being that the small farmers of the west would see a light when all the water from the Cuilcagh pot would drain away into the Atlantic.