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Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: We are well able to stand up for ourselves. In the context of the process - we are democrats, as the Deputy is aware - it is important that we allow the ongoing negotiations which were initiated by the troika to conclude. I am not entering this House to be drawn into circumstances that would have me stray outside that remit. We know what is important, as does the Deputy and everyone else....

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----that it would be an encouragement arising from the troika's initiative if flexibility in respect of the promissory notes, which are a legacy debt to our people, were brought about. To achieve that, there is a need for discussions and negotiations. Those negotiations have been under way for some time. From that perspective, I want the officials and personnel on all sides who are...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: No. The Deputy keeps harping on about investing the national pension reserve fund and all the moneys of the European Investment Bank in his own hare-brained schemes to sort out Ireland, but this would ruin Europe and the whole lot of us together.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I have listened to Deputy Adams, an experienced negotiator-----

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----on many occasions over the past 30 years when his own words were indecipherable and could not be understood. They were incomprehensible.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: He should understand mine now.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: The troika, comprising the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, undertook to produce a paper on flexibility being shown to Ireland in regard to the promissory notes. To achieve anything in this regard, negotiations and discussions have to take place. It is only right and proper that all the personnel involved in the discussions be allowed to do their work. The...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I want to see the personnel involved allowed to do the job they have been given to do.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Ross is one of the most erratic economists I have ever come across.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: Spain has to comply with the 3% rule by the end of next year. Ireland was given an extra year from the end of 2014 to the end of 2015. The Commissioner, Olli Rehn, was speaking in regard to Hungary, Spain and Greece. He holds the same status as every other Commissioner. Ireland's Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn represents the Commission at the same level.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: These negotiations are being conducted by the troika. I do not know whether all of the Commissioners know all of the details of the discussions taking place. Deputy Ross referred to Latin, Greek and Spanish. He should always remember the old Gaelic tongue was one of the prime languages of Europe in ancient times. It has an old saying which is important for everyone to remember when...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: I read what Deputy Ross said about Anglo Irish Bank on many occasions. I speak for the Government here. The Government has never set a deadline nor raised expectations. It is involved through personnel, both at official level and through the independent Central Bank, with the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission in regard to the negotiations arising from the initiative of the troika. I...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----in bringing about a situation where we can get a conclusion with flexibility. In that regard, these discussions and negotiations continue. Deputy Ross should understand that as Head of Government I am not raising expectations or forcing time limits. His comments in that regard are irrelevant.

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 12a, Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012 - Financial Resolution; No. 3, Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second and Remaining Stages; and No. 20, Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill 2011 - Order for Report Stage, Report and Final Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything...

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: As I understand it, a number of Ministers will be present tomorrow and available to answer questions.

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: This is about promised legislation. In regard to the Government's programme, it is very clear that there will be two referenda held - one in respect of child protection, the other in respect of the abolition of the Seanad - outside the remit of the constitutional convention. In setting up the constitutional convention, the Government is anxious that this will work properly and that the...

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: When we said that we would like to have them in the first 12 months, no one was aware of the discussions that would follow through from Europe and that we would have a referendum in respect of the fiscal stability treaty. That is the first referendum that is going to be held.

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: My view - I need to talk to Deputy Martin and others about it - is that we need to reflect seriously on whether we can hold a referendum on its own or with another in future. In my view, the child protection referendum is sensitive, in which there are different arguments and which should be held on its own, as should the question regarding the abolition of the Seanad. I think the Deputy can...

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: In regard to the latter matter mentioned by the Deputy referred, the programme for Government states clearly that a referendum will be held on abolition of the Seanad. I will certainly give him a timeline but I want to be clear that it can be adhered to. This is why I have not set out dates or months. The legislation on child protection has to pass through the Houses and, as he will be...

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: When I get clarity I will publish the timeline and tell the House and everybody else.