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Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (10 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: Question 460: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in regard to reduction of payment for recycling bins for persons over 70 years of age. [4475/09]

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: The Ceann Comhairle should allow a debate.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: The Government has sought to portray the questioning of bank practices as unpatriotic or irresponsible both inside and outside this House. It was mentioned by some of the Ministers.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: It is not unpatriotic or irresponsible.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: The Taoiseach mentioned that we were going to have a debate on recapitalisation tomorrow. Any debate we have had inside this House in the past few months has been rushed. It has been a scramble.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: We will not follow the Government blindly.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: This is the most serious issue facing the country——

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: ——and we are expected to take the Government on trust, a trust that has not held up to date.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: A Cheann Comhairle, if you do not allow the private notice questions, can you suggest how we can deal with this, the most important issue to face the country?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: What suggestion have you for us today, instead of scrambling in here tomorrow to a preconceived idea and to learn some of the information?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: The markets must decide where our banks stand at present.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: We cannot deal with it until we know the extent of the problem. Whether knowingly or not, we do not have the information.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: I would appear the Government has much more information than we have.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: It was irresponsible not to share it with the House.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: We have a public interest remit in here and we will not follow the Government line.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: A Cheann Comhairle, you have a duty——

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: ——in this House to ensure that the public interest and democracy is protected.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: It is not being protected here this morning.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: The Minister for Finance commissioned a report that he then did not read.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Billy Timmins: Were there any other similar transactions?