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Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: No.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: Is there a question?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: I doubt that any accountant in Ireland knows as much about banks and banking as certain elements of Sinn Féin.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: The knowledge any of the rest of us has pales by comparison with Sinn Féin's relationship with the banks and their moolah.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: It is unbecoming to let something that is so important to families degenerate-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: It is unworthy of Deputy Mary Lou McDonald.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: It is not her normal standard to make such comments.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked where it had all gone wrong. Unfortunately for the country, it went wrong on the night of the bank guarantee-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: -----when Sinn Féin and others decided to transfer the debt to the backs of the people.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: That is why it is so tragic and sad to listen to the tapes.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: In the three years after the bank guarantee, the country lost 250,000 jobs. The connection between this and Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's question is that many of the families in question are now struggling to meet their mortgage payments. What have we done as a Government?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: We have set up a procedure to find a resolution between the borrower and the lender.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: First, in view of what happened on a previous occasion, we all have to be very circumspect in what we say here in regard to matters that are due, I understand and I hope, to come before the courts early next year. It is right and proper that people who have been involved in what has happened to this country - this major disaster - should come before our courts. However, I do not think...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: For the record, there have been a number of occasions on which comments were made in the House by previous officeholders which seriously jeopardised, if not totally prevented, prosecutions that might otherwise have been undertaken. It is important that the Deputy acknowledge that there is an independent justice system, an independent Judiciary and an independent prosecution system. With...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: Is Deputy Daly suggesting that this country should have defaulted and been plunged into totally penury? If that is her solution, it is not an opinion I share.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: It is proposed to take No. 19, Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 - Second Stage (resumed), to adjourn at 3 p.m. today if not previously concluded; and No. 4, Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage, Second and Remaining Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 5.45...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: On the first point, one of the problems is that some of the demands of the legislation, for example, the complexities of the banking resolution legislation and the insolvency services legislation, mean the timing of the flow of legislation has been difficult. It is matter for the Whips and if the Deputy cares to arrange a discussion with them, it is possible and desirable to engage in some...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: I will mention the Deputy's concerns about the survivors of symphysiotomy to the Minister. Everybody in the House shares these concerns and the Minister and his officials are working on the issue. I pay tribute to the Magdalen women for their bravery and dignity. Mr. Justice Quirke's report is being studied and examined in detail by the women concerned and their supporters and advisers....

Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: It is matter for discussion with the Whips. First, the women concerned should have the opportunity to study the report which is very innovative and bears study and examination. In my experience of people who received redress under the previous arrangements whereby there was a single lump sum, very often the outcomes for them were not as valuable as they might have been if there had been the...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

Joan Burton: Not yet.