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Dáil Éireann Vol. 728 Tuesday, No. 6 29 March 2011 DÍOSPÓIREACHTAÍ PARLAIMINTE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES DÁIL ÉIREANN TUAIRISC OIFIGIÚIL—Neamhcheartaithe (OFFICIAL REPORT—Unrevised) Tuesday, 29 March 2011. Ceisteanna—Questions Taoiseach ………………………………… 603 Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Priority Questions …………………………… 614 Other Questions …………………………… 624 Adjournment Debate Matters …………………………… 630 Leaders’ Questions ……………………………… 631 Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 ……………… 636 Order of Business ……………………………… 636 Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion ………………… 643 Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements ……………………… 643 Private Members’ Business Universal Social Charge: Motion ………………………… 681 Adjournment Debate School Transport ……………………………… 702 Arts Funding ……………………………… 705 Care of the Elderly …………………………… 707 Hospital Services ……………………………… 709 Questions: Written Answers …………………………… 711 DÁIL ÉIREANN ———— Dé Máirt, 29 Márta 2011. Tuesday, 29 March 2011. ———— Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m. ———— Paidir. Prayer. ———— Ceisteanna — Questions ———— European Council Meetings 1. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his participation the Euro- pean Council meeting of 24/25 March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5738/11] 2. Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent EU Summit [5798/11] 3. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Taoiseach his intended bilateral visits during 2011 [5814/11] 4. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the outcome of discussions at the EU Summit of 24 and 25 March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5912/11] 5. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Taoiseach the foreign visits he plans to undertake during 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5913/11] Taoiseach (Deputy Enda Kenny): I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, together. Last week’s meeting of the European Council discussed two major international issues, Libya and Japan. On Libya, we endorsed UN Resolution 1973, which authorised actions to protect civilians. We reiterated our call on Colonel Gadaffi to step down immediately. The European Union has already moved swiftly to implement sanctions and we stand ready to adopt further measures to ensure that the Gadaffi regime does not benefit from oil and gas revenues. The humanitarian situation, both within Libya and on its borders, remains a source of serious con- cern. The European Union will continue to provide assistance to all those affected, working closely with the UN and NGOs. On Japan, we said again that the European Union will support Japan as it strives to overcome the immense challenges it faces after the earthquake and tsunami. We stand ready to provide further support at Japan’s request. There are lessons to be learned from what has happened, 603 Ceisteanna— 29 March 2011. Questions [Deputy Enda Kenny.] including in the area of nuclear safety, and the Council has asked for the safety of nuclear plants to be reviewed through a full and transparent risk and safety assessment. The Council also decided a comprehensive package of economic measures. We agreed arrangements to improve the operation of the current financial stability facility, from which Ireland is receiving assistance, as well as the features of the permanent mechanism which will replace it in 2013. We also finalised agreement on the change to the treaties needed to place the mechanism on a firm and legal footing. We pressed forward with the implementation of the new European semester under which member states will submit programmes, covering budgetary plans and structural reforms, in April. We endorsed the agreement on the six legislat- ive proposals on budgetary and macro-economic surveillance and look forward to their adop- tion in June. We concluded the Euro Plus Pact, as adopted by the Heads of the euro area on 11 March and welcomed a further six non-euro member states that decided to join it. Participating member states will present their commitments under the pact in their reform programmes next month. The Council underlined the importance of the European banking stress tests and agreed that member states will have ambitious strategies in place to deal with any consequences prior to publication of the results. We also heard from Prime Minister Socrates on recent devel- opments in Portugal. With regard to issues of particular concern to Ireland, my European Council colleagues agreed with my view that it makes sense to come back to these when the results of our banking stress tests are known. I suggested that Ministers for Finance be asked to take this work forward and this approach was agreed. We want to move forward swiftly once the position is clear and will remain in close contact with European partners, both in capitals and institutions, as the work progresses. On bilateral or foreign visits, I have not yet finalised travel plans for the year ahead. Deputy Gerry Adams: Bhí mé ag éisteacht leat, a Thaoisigh, agus ba chóir don Taoiseach seasamh suas ar son phobal na h-Éireann ag an gcruinniú sin. Dúirt sé sa chlár Rialtais gur lorg sé agus go bhfuair sé sain-ordú láidir margadh nua a dhéanamh. I am very disappointed that the Taoiseach did not take the opportunity at the summit to raise the crisis pressing down on the people of this State, that he agreed to that issue not being discussed and being taken off the agenda. He told the Dáil and the Irish people that this debt was “grossly unfair—— An Ceann Comhairle: I am sorry Deputy, but we cannot have statements during Question Time. Will you please put questions to the Taoiseach? Deputy Gerry Adams: Maith go leor a Cheann Comhairle. Go raibh maith agat arís. Why did the Taoiseach not argue, as he did here, that it was grossly unfair to expect Ireland to fork out 100%? Taoiseach (Deputy Enda Kenny): Tá mé buíoch don Teachta Adams as ucht an cheist a chur seo orm. Bhí mé ag seasamh suas ar son mhuintir na h-Éireann. I did not actually agree that the issue should be taken off the agenda. In fact, I proposed that it be taken off the agenda. I agreed that with President Van Rompuy the day before because I wanted to be clear that we would be in a much better position to do any negotiations about either an interest rate reduction or adjustments to the programme under the IMF and EU package once the extent of the banking stress tests is known here in Ireland. It was not a case of agreeing, but rather a case of proposing and achieving agreement. The decision of the Heads of Government was that as there will not be a full Council meeting again until June, it would not be appropriate 604 Ceisteanna— 29 March 2011. Questions that the Ministers for Finance should take the next step until we were clear after next Thursday about the scale and extent of the stress tests. Deputy Gerry Adams: There will be an interest rate reduction. I said that last week. The reality is that the Taoiseach has accepted the IMF-EU deal. He has also accepted the austerity measures that go with it. This includes the very oppressive universal social charge. He also agreed to a pact for the euro at the summit, but did not think to bring it back here to allow the people of this State to decide it in a referendum. Why not? Taoiseach (Deputy Enda Kenny): The interest rate reduction was agreed at the eurozone meeting in Helsinki in respect of countries that are in the EFSF package. That interest rate reduction was extended to Greece, which is not in the EFSF package. The agreement reached in Helsinki by the eurozone leaders was that countries within the EFSF could have their interest rates reduced. Conditionalities for the interest rate reduction were applied to Ireland, but I was not prepared to accept them. The euro pact is outside the treaties and our political discussions about how to strengthen the euro dealt with qualifications across, competitiveness, dealing with pension problems and so on. From that point of view, there was a general consensus about the “euro plus pact” and countries outside the eurozone were invited to join it on a voluntary basis. Some of them did so. I already mentioned this on the report before the European Council meeting. We will continue with the tradition that applied heretofore of reporting to the House on the con- sequences and the aftermath of each European Council meeting. The Deputy will appreciate that I have committed myself to coming to the House in advance of such meetings, which is a break with tradition, to allow all Deputies to have their say about European issues of interest to them. Deputy Gerry Adams: Taoiseach, you say a break. We are broke. You need to tell the European Union that. Deputy Brendan Howlin: That is a great help. The Taoiseach: It is a difficult legacy to have to deal with. Deputy Joe Higgins: Of course the question of the Shylock-like rate at which our so-called partners in solidarity have fixed the interest rates is a massive one. Is it not true that the critical issue is the tens of billions of euro in bad gambling debts that the European banks placed with Irish banks, speculators and developers? If the next meeting of EU leaders is not until June, why did the Taoiseach not insist on raising as a critical issue the need for those bond holders to take their losses? Was it not reckless or negligent in every way for him to hand something over to the finance Ministers which they, in turn, will probably lob to the next leaders’ meeting in June? Why did the Taoiseach propose this would not be discussed? Was it because his colleagues in the European People’s Party asked him not to raise the issue so that Chancellor Merkel would not be embarrassed in front of that element of the right-wing constituency on which she depends in Germany? An Ceann Comhairle: Can I ask the Deputy not to answer his own questions? Deputy Joe Higgins: As we generally do not get answers, the only recourse we have is to answer our own questions.
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