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Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to read some comments into the record: The amendment before us this morning is the recommencement of the bank guarantee of billions in the name of Irish taxpayers...It provides for the roll-over of the bank guarantee...The Minister is asking the taxpayer to provide yet another line of defence for the banking system...[Next week when the Government will announce €3.8 billion of]...

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister is misleading the Dáil.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, the Minister is misleading the House.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I have a document before me which shows what the Minister said on 17 October.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I am entitled to make a point of order.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Chair instruct the Minister that he must not mislead the House?

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to instruct the Minister not to mislead the Dáil deliberately. That is a point of order.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I am entitled to raise a point of order.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking whether the Chair has the discretion to ensure that a Minister does not deliberately mislead the Dáil. I have the proof to show that he is misleading the Dáil in this instance.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: 17 October, those are the Minister's own words.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Which gave legal effect to the guarantee.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: It is deliberately misleading the Dáil. The Minister said in the Dáil that it came into legal effect on 17 October.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister and his party voted against it twice.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister should get his head out of the sand, for God's sake.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: We got further than Limerick anyway. How much is this blank cheque going to cost us?

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin did not agree to the time allocated for this debate. On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle, that is an inaccurate statement from the Tánaiste. Sinn Féin opposed this allocation of time.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, the Tánaiste is deliberately misleading the House. The Minister for Finance put on the record of the Dáil that the guarantee came into effect on 17 October 2008 in reply to-----

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: -----Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 8 November 2011. He said that is when the CIFS came into effect.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: It is the Minister for Finance's own comment and the Tánaiste knows well that Sinn Féin and the Labour Party voted on 17 October 2008 against that scheme.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: He is deliberately misleading the Dáil in trying to give cover to his own Members who will walk through the lobbies and vote for an extension of the blanket guarantee, which is a blank cheque for the banks, including the former Anglo Irish Bank.