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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (25 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...with our most recent meeting before I go back to the December Council. The extraordinary meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels on 6 March condemned the unprovoked violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity and called on the Russian Federation to withdraw immediately its armed forces. We agreed on a three-phase roadmap of measures that would be taken against the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...in Ukraine. For next week's European Council, therefore, there is an extensive and substantive agenda, including Ukraine. As is traditional for the spring European Council, the focus is on economic issues. The main agenda items are the European Semester, the Europe 2020 strategy, industrial competitiveness, climate and energy, and external relations. In Brussels next week, I also...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...for Finance, and the Tánaiste and I having discussed these matters in Brussels, Frankfurt, Washington and with other leaders on different political occasions. The Deputy made several assertions about sovereignty. The fact of the matter is that on 16 December, the barrier that surrounded Ireland in terms of its bailout programme will no longer be there. Does that restore our full...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...take and receive the full support of my own Department, as well as that of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. In presenting this budget the Government knows that many lives have been blighted by the economic carnage left behind by our predecessors. We appreciate the struggles and hardships so many have endured. The past few years have been painful and challenging and left...

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 (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...

European Council: Statements (27 Mar 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...This month's summit took place in an atmosphere of relative calm but its deliberations were no less important for that. As is traditional at the spring European Council, our focus was strongly on economic policy with a particular focus on how we can ensure a return to sustainable growth and job creation. Ahead of the meeting I informed the House that implementation would be a key...

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.

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.

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 (10 Oct 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...the people on understanding that there are challenging times ahead but that the prospect of emerging from the bailout brings with it the opportunity for real growth and a restoration of Ireland's economic sovereignty. This is why the Government has set it ceilings for the next number of years in terms of spending and we will adhere to these. We will have the effective management of the...

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.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Discussions with European Leaders (18 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...of Government, including Chancellor Merkel, on 29 June. I do not want this country to see any pretensions about a second bailout. We want out of this bailout as quickly as we can so we can fly economically and run our country as efficiently as I know is possible. The promissory note issue, which has been there a while, means there is a requirement to pay €3.1 billion every year...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...is that the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and his Ministers of State follow Government policy and the mandate given to the Government was to sort out the public finances of the country, restore our economic sovereignty and give an opportunity for this country to provide jobs, employment and careers for our people and young people in particular and not to have them travel to other lands by...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...surrender. As this small country was one of the first small states of the last century to achieve its independence and as the 1916 Rising, in its own way, took the first fledgling steps towards economic and political independence and sovereignty, there could be a marvellous opportunity for that to be remembered in a fitting fashion. By that, I mean the use of the lanes of history in a way...

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...ancient enemies not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible. That was his immediate goal, but he knew that he was doing much more than that. He saw his plan as the foundation stone of an economic union open to all countries that agreed to be bound by it. Schuman, like many, lived through Europe's darkest hour. Unlike most, he saw a light at the end of it. He thought big and he...

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...a single inch. The argument he has come up with this morning has been trotted out many times. I have made no secret of the fact that I wish to lead the Government that will retrieve Ireland's economic sovereignty. The way to do this is to get our own house in order, to provide an impetus and a stimulus that will provide jobs and opportunity, will allow our people to use their creativity...

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 (25 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: ...is a funding arrangement and that it is not necessary to hold a referendum on it because it is a funding arrangement that is entirely compatible with the Constitution. It does not in any way limit sovereignty of the State in the exercise of its economic affairs, but merely indicates the State's willingness to participate as an equal sovereign nation in the permanent stability mechanism. I...

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.