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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister. We will continue to push the banks, but we have no executive authority. All that we can do is point out what they are doing. The Minister might not share the Tánaiste's position, but a general policy position of walking hand in hand----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Regarding the Revenue Commissioners, I take the Minister's point about a negotiating position, but what is his opinion? Does he agree that if Revenue does not get the resources outlined in the note, the State will lose €265 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for allowing me access to his officials recently to help me put together budget submissions. It was very useful and much appreciated. The budgetary process reform is also very welcome and I encourage the Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, to consider a much more radical improvement. I am sure the Minister is aware that the OECD...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: We will find out on budget day when it will be announced, but in the process used by other countries three months prior to the budget the committee would be given the proposed budget so the Dáil could make an input to it. I will leave this with the Minister and suggest if we want to move towards international best practice this is a great first step but we are still 1 million miles away...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: At a detailed level figures are available for two years.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Guarantee Scheme Bond Repayments (17 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Leaders' questions on 3 October 2012, where the Minister for Education and Skills stated the Government was forced to repay €1 billion to the holders of unsecured bonds in Allied Irish Bank at the insistence of the EU IMF Troika, if he will provide documentation to substantiate this assertion; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Receivers (9 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify and expound on recent media comments (details supplied) that indicated the National Asset Management Agency faces a loss of up to €15 billion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42869/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: On the repayment of the bondholders, the logic the Minister has just given is Fianna Fáil economics, which is that we need to borrow and therefore we will pay off all of these debts because if we do not, people will not lend to us. Exactly the opposite is true and my position is very well thought through. Fianna Fáil's position was not thought through and I suggest the Minister's...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: This was unguaranteed. It was not 2009.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: No. The Minister's information is incorrect. It was not 2009.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: It was an unguaranteed bond which means it was before September 2008. Does the Minister not even know the difference between a guaranteed and an unguaranteed bond?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Does the Minister think he just paid a guaranteed bond? Is this what Minister is saying?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: That is ridiculous.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Did the Minister just suggest that what was paid with a guaranteed bond?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: Is the Minister for real? Does he believe the €1 billion cheque he paid on Monday was to guaranteed bondholders?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will identify the unsecured AIB bondholders who were paid €1,000,000,000 earlier in the week; the steps he has taken to date to identify them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42591/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Guarantee Scheme (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: The Minister made various points, to which I will try to respond. The scale of the €1 billion paid out, at current borrowing costs, is €60 million per annum forever. That is what it would cost us to fund €1 billion, which is equal to what it would cost to pay 2,400 new teachers every year forever. The Minister said that former ECB president, Mr. Trichet believed it was...
- Address by H.E. Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: -----and Ireland is not looking for aid or benevolence. We need our money back in order that we can contribute to the recovery of Europe.
- Address by H.E. Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament (4 Oct 2012)
Stephen Donnelly: I too welcome President Schulz to Ireland and Dáil Éireann. All of us, as European citizens, have much of which to be proud. There has been relative peace across the Continent for decades now for the first time in a long time and a growth in Europe's voice on critical issues such as inequality, social justice, climate change and so on. Unfortunately, the current economic crisis,...