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- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: I would like to finish my point.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: I just need a couple of seconds.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: Will the Tánaiste speak to the Taoiseach and her colleagues? Will she go back to the regulator and his staff, who came into our committee on two occasions to tell us that having scrutinised, researched and checked the loans in the banks, they had come up with a figure of approximately â¬39 billion? I accept that the Tánaiste cannot give the answer now. There is a big difference between...
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: Yes.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: A Cheann Comhairle, I am not going to take smug stupidity from a Minister who should know better.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: The Minister, Deputy O'Dea, does not have the cop on to realise that the difference between â¬40 billion and â¬80 billion is a hell of a lot of money. He should not make a laughing matter of it in here.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: The Irish taxpayer will not make a joke of â¬40 billion. It is a lot of money.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: The regulator came into a committee of this House.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: He spoke about loans of approximately â¬40 billion.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: The Minister for Finance, the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach came in and said that the relevant figure is â¬80 billion. There is a hell of a difference.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: I know you are interested in guns and defence. Maybe counting is hard for you.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: I can count. There is a big difference.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: Do not make a laughing matter out of it.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: I would have thought that the Ceann Comhairle had more control than that. The Minister is making a joke out of the whole thing.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: This is a very serious budget. We are being watched by those interested in world affairs.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: I have asked the Tánaiste to get somebody to come in here tomorrow and clarify who is telling the truth.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: The Minister can laugh all he wants, but this is serious.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: Can the Tánaiste ensure that somebody clarifies the matter tomorrow?
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: I am only asking for an explanation of this, one way or the other.
- Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)
Damien English: It is a serious matter. There is a big difference between â¬40 billion and â¬80 billion.