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National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: I support this amendment. It is reasonable that people who are in any way going to benefit from this NAMA legislation should be tax compliant. It is the simplest most straightforward request in the world. I cannot understand why the Government will not accept it. As for the Greens broadly supporting it, they may be in favour of tough regulation but when it comes to dealing with the...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: I am ready for an election any time. Belt away because we are all waiting on it. Bring it on.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: Yesterday Deputy Gogarty supported an Opposition amendment and then stood up 15 minutes later-----

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: This is on amendment No. 13. Yesterday, Deputy Gogarty told us he was supporting an Opposition amendment and 15 minutes later he voted against it.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: A Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance says he is going to introduce an amendment and Deputy Paul Gogarty believes him. Did the Deputy not hear the discussion half an hour earlier about an amendment Deputy Joan Burton had proposed on Committee Stage which the Minister said he would accept later on Report Stage but then changed his mind? Then again Deputy Gogarty will probably learn as he goes...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: To be helpful, we need to have sympathy with the Bills Office for letting this one slip through because it came from me. I was not aware of that request or, clearly, I would have agreed to it. In any event, my amendment No. 85 is part of that group.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: This means we will have two substantive debates on this matter.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: I regard this as one of the crunch amendments.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: This amendment refers to-----

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: My concern is that if we do not avail of this opportunity now, we will not have an opportunity to vet this issue. Perhaps we need to filibuster until the Minister returns.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: In that case, I will move amendment No. 16. In doing so, if the Minister of State would like to give us some advice in regard to when his senior colleague may return, that would be very much appreciated. I will bow to the Minister of State for the couple of seconds it would take to give that information to us, if he has any idea when the Minister will return.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: I move amendment No. 16: In page 20, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: ""Market Value" relates to the current market value of an asset;". The amendment seeks to introduce a definition to suggest that the term "market value" represents just that. I had this amendment linked, sensibly I believe, with amendment No. 85, which is in the group alluded to earlier.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: I am doing that. However, I must point this out to contextualise it. Otherwise, people will not understand what we are talking about, which would be unfortunate - not new, but unfortunate. Amendment No. 16 is linked to amendment No. 85. What we need to do in this regard is deal with the issue of long-term economic value. I had to try to define this nonsense of long-term economic value...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: The long-term economic value.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: The heat of battle.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: The Government is certainly engaging now, anyway. It is robbing the taxpayer to pay the banks.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: I support that proposal.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: I did not make an erroneous statement. I referred to developers, not builders.

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans regarding the sports capital grant scheme; if he will renew the sports capital grant scheme; or if he will replace it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39785/09]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (5 Nov 2009)

Arthur Morgan: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way the sports capital grant scheme is funded; if the programme is funded from the profits generated by the national lottery; if so, the location to which the money generated in 2009 has gone in view of the fact that the sports capital grant scheme was suspended for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39786/09]