Results 3,521-3,540 of 11,114 for speaker:Damien English
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: I will take ten seconds.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: That is ridiculous. We got a guarantee earlier on - just as on every other thing around here.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: I accept that.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: I did and I-----
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: No, because it did not happen today.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: Sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but I got a guarantee earlier that the question would be answered.
- Bank Guarantee Scheme (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: Yes. I got a guarantee earlier that I could ask questions.
- Banking Sector Regulation (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: Another point made at the committee in question was that providing professional business advice can also help businesses access credit. As many businesses find it difficult to produce, say, cashflow statements for future years, they need greater assistance from management accountants to prepare business plans before seeking loans from the banks. The State could have a role in providing such...
- Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: I welcome the chance to say a few words in this debate. Deputy Sherlock has probably summarised much of what we feel on this side of the House. It is our age group that will suffer from all these decisions in the past two years culminating in this black Thursday or bleak Thursday or whatever one likes to call it. It will affect those aged under 45 or 50 with large mortgages and other...
- Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: I am glad Deputy Mansergh does but he has not been a Minister for the past 14 years.
- Announcement by Minister for Finance on Banking of 30 September 2010: Statements (Resumed) (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: Many of the Minister of State's colleagues are not in the real world or feel the pain of the people. The Minister for Finance spoke about how anger is anger and will not fix anything. People are angry because they believe the Government does not understand their pain. People whom we all think had money are now under serious pressure and attend social welfare offices and community welfare...
- Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public servants that have been redeployed under the new redeployment scheme agreed in the Croke Park Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33926/10]
- Written Answers — State Banking Sector: State Banking Sector (30 Sep 2010)
Damien English: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance when his attention was first drawn to the fact that â¬15 million in cash held by Anglo Irish Bank as security against loans to a person (details supplied) has been moved to act as security against other loans owed by family members of that person; the steps he has taken to ensure that the taxpayers' interests were protected in these transactions;...
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: We know all that.
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: Which we all accept.
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: We did not, but we opposed the cancellation of elective surgery. The Minister should get her facts right.
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: It was cancelled on 31 August.
- Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: There are hundreds of people on the waiting lists for elective surgery in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. They now have to go into the system. Where will they get their operations? Will that not add to the Minister's woes and increase these waiting lists? There is, effectively, a full surgical unit which could operate on people but cannot do so because it has been closed. The waiting lists...
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: I thank my colleague, Deputy Reilly, for sharing time with me. When I look at the counter-motion all I can say is that it is time to get real. Before one can fix a problem one must admit that there is a problem. The dogs on the street know there is a problem with the health service, yet the motion is about clapping each other on the back. Reference is made to the affordability of nursing...
- Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)
Damien English: They are not statistics; they are real stories. Until the system is fixed, the Minister and her colleagues should not come into the House and clap themselves on the back. No one deserves that when people are still suffering. It is time we got real. Let us be honest and have a proper discussion. In most people's eyes the health service is not working. Perhaps it is working in the...