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Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: -----and our sovereignty and our economic independence were handed away. This Government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party is focused on retrieving that economic sovereignty. Our young people will have the opportunity in a new country to have work, careers and opportunities.

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2012)

Enda Kenny: While Deputy Adams has not been in the House for the past 30 years, he now is an elected Member of the Dáil. The road back to the retrieval of economic sovereignty for Ireland is to get out of the programme we are in, to put our own house in order, to use the expertise and creativity of our own people with the opportunity that Europe and beyond presents to retrieve that economic...

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: ...interest rate, the savings that would accrue to the taxpayer would be substantial. The facility agreed to last Sunday will allow that to happen. In a situation where we are not in control of our economic sovereignty, it is critical that the conditions we have signed up to and those we have renegotiated and changed be adhered to. While the economic turmoil and confusion are challenging...

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2011)

Enda Kenny: He did not mention that he refused to come in here and deny that the IMF had reached our shores in dealing with our economic sovereignty.

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure if Deputy Higgins understands the reality of this country's loss of economic sovereignty. Does he understand who pays gardaí, nurses, teachers and public servants?

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2011)

Enda Kenny: For the first time in the history of this State, our economic sovereignty is not under our direct control. If we want to make major or minor changes, in most cases we have to renegotiate a memorandum of understanding that was signed off some time ago.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and will continue to draw funding from that programme until 2013, when we hope to be able to emerge from it, retrieve our economic sovereignty and fly on our own.

Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: As I said during Leaders' Questions, this budget will be presented as an opportunity to move the country further towards retrieval of our economic sovereignty and independence and create opportunities for investment and job opportunities and creation.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Enda Kenny: The point is that the Taoiseach did not tell people the truth. He was not straight with them about the IMF or the ECB. These people have now taken away our economic independence. The Taoiseach cashed in our sovereignty and it is our job to see they are sent home as quickly as possible.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: They ask us to keep on this path in as fair and equitable a way as we can. We will get the country back to work, emerge from the bailout programme, restore our economic sovereignty and offer hope, inspiration, comfort and motivation to the people by creating wealth and job opportunities in the time ahead.

Leaders' Questions. (12 May 2010)

Enda Kenny: -----priorities for that budget, where moneys might be shifted from one Vote to another depending on agreement on those priorities and leave us in control of our own economic affairs, determining what our budget should be and deciding what should be the impact on people. Can I take it that the Taoiseach does not agree with proposals that would diminish the extent and strength of our...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: -----and that we are not the masters of our own destiny as we would like to be. Until we get to the point where we are in control of our economic sovereignty and independence, we cannot do all the things we would like to do, but we are making preparations and are at the start of a four year strategy and programme.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: It is necessary that we continue to do so to restore our economic sovereignty and to have growth again in our economy. I hope we can get a conclusion to the decision of 29 June in respect of the bank debt and sustainability and that we can retrieve a decision in respect of the promissory note and the wreckage left behind by the previous Administration.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...Howlin, whom we absolutely support in this, of achieving €300 million of extra savings from within payroll this year, amounting to €1 billion by 2015. That is absolutely necessary for the economic salvation and development of our country as we retrieve our economic sovereignty, improve the public finances, run systems efficiently and provide jobs for our people. In...

Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: As I stated, it would be lovely to be able to stand up and state it has all been sorted and everybody will be better off. If we are to have our country and economic sovereignty back, we cannot go on in the way we did and we will not do so. Therefore, we must make decisions which, on the one hand, will meet that target and, on the other, do everything possible to return people to work and...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2011)

Enda Kenny: The objective of our political direction is to retrieve economic sovereignty for our people and our country. That has been lost in the sense that we have been subject to a bailout in the troika programme. As I have said previously on many occasions, I have no intention of agreeing to anything on tax harmonisation. We have been clear about our corporate tax rate, as has everybody else in...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2011)

Enda Kenny: We have to grapple with an economic challenge that no Government in the history of the State has had to deal with. We have lost our economic sovereignty. Perhaps some Deputies do not understand that, but it is a fact of life. We are being examined on the conditions of the IMF-EU bailout deal by the troika and we are meeting those challenges. Every one of the European institutions has...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...possible. These things are never easy. This is a major challenge for Ireland and the budget tomorrow will be a step further in this country's exiting of the programme we are in, in retrieving our economic sovereignty and restoring the opportunity to grow our economy and to create jobs, which is in everyone's interest. The people know this. Deputy Adams should believe it is not with any...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)

Enda Kenny: They have left our shores and we have retrieved our sovereignty and restored our economic independence. Furthermore, we have also given the flag back to the people with a new sense of understanding and respect. Deputy Gerry Adams says this is in the interests of the bankers. There were 225,000 new jobs created in the past few years. The young men and young women of this country work to...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)

Enda Kenny: ...be ratified in various ways by individual countries. The fact that Ireland is in a programme supersedes all of this. Deputy Adams's statement that I want to be the Taoiseach to retrieve Ireland's sovereignty is true. We do not have our economic sovereignty in the way the Deputy and I would wish because we cannot propose programmes at Government level without securing approval from the...