Results 31,681-31,700 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: In terms of the recovery-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----there was an improvement-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: There was an improvement in those values.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is arguing that a loan portfolio that was worth €5.7 billion at the top of the boom and was sold for a lesser value-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----when we had a very deep crash and NAMA was responsible for getting the market going again-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: This fall in value of course represents a fall in value to the taxpayer, but it was caused by the banking crash and by the collapse in values.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Let us be clear about that.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Consequently, there is no reason in particular to refer to the pre-crash value, other than perhaps as a cause of great regret that the fall was indeed so great and so substantial.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: NAMA paid no moneys and-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----had no relationship with any party on the loan sale against whom allegations of wrongdoing now are being made. The loan portfolio was sold after an open process to the highest bidder for what it was worth. As I stated, attempting to put NAMA into what is a highly complicated Northern tale is not necessarily, I suggest to Deputy Adams, giving the full picture. NAMA did not appear...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: What NAMA has done is to appear before committees of this House and answer questions. All the questions and briefings are available both on the website of this House and, I understand, on the NAMA website. The Northern Ireland committee submitted a list of questions to NAMA regarding the sales process. NAMA responded to that on 4 September with detailed responses to the questions, running...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Is there anything in the Republic of Ireland that Deputy Adams regards as being good?
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Adams told us previously that he did not need to know about economics.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I note that the other day the Deputy, in an interview, said he knows a lot about economics.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I suspect Deputy Adams also knows a lot about governance-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----including of organisations of which he was never even a member, but that is another issue.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: This is being inquired into. It is a Northern matter.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Everything Deputy Adams has said relates to various individuals within the Northern business community or, indeed, individuals from other communities who have come forward-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----to suggest there was something untoward in relation-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----to how property matters were dealt with-----