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Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We were against its terms.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to share the 30 minutes allocated with Deputies Jan O'Sullivan, Joe Costello, Joanna Tuffy and Kathleen Lynch. The Labour Party motion is not about ideology but methodology. The Labour Party does not wish to own the banks, we wish to fix them. The banks cannot fix themselves, as we have seen in the past nine months. We saw what took place today at the Allied Irish Bank annual...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We have done so. I know a little about this territory but none of us knows enough. That is why we must work together. We are not about ideology, but about trying to fix the system. We wish to return the banks to private ownership in due course. The Labour Party has made this proposal elsewhere and I will speak on the matter very briefly. The country's international reputation has been...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It solves the problem in this way. One could then argue there is no legal problem because the developers who had loans with banks X, Y and Z still have the loans with those banks. The legal relationship between the borrower and the lender would not be changed in any way and could not be challenged. There is good property expertise in the banking system and it could evaluate the real and...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: One must still solve the problem. However, we would propose a clear out of the boards of management. They would not be run by the Department of Finance, as the Minister, Deputy Ryan, attempted to suggest, in the way that Irish Life was in its hey day as a successful commercial bank, 98% of which was State owned. There was no interference from Merrion Street in the way that financial house...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is the Government's proposed solutions that worry us.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is the method of dealing with the issue we criticise.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: That is rich coming from Fianna Fáíl.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Public Service Pay: Public Service Pay (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected Exchequer saving for 2009 and 2010, respectively, resulting from the incentivised career break and incentivised early retirement schemes for public servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18965/09]

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 122: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the April 2009 Exchequer figures; if he is confident that tax revenue will amount to €34.4 billion for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18964/09]

Written Answers — State Compensation Payments: State Compensation Payments (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the lifelong monthly compensatory payment to the 32 acknowledged Thalidomide survivors is linked to social welfare scales, despite the sustained objections made by an association (details supplied) because of the declining health of the survivors, and the fact that the payments have not...

Written Answers — State Compensation Payments: State Compensation Payments (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will respond to an association (details supplied) which she met before Easter 2009 on the issues which were raised with her; if an official decision has been made by her; if the association will receive notification of the decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19162/09]

Written Answers — Aquaculture Licences: Aquaculture Licences (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will confirm that a salmon aquaculture licence for Ballynakill Bay, Connemara, County Galway has been assigned to a company on behalf of its subsidiary (details supplied) since 2003; if he will further confirm that the same company or subsidiary has farmed salmon at Freaghillaun Island, County Galway and that it also...

Written Answers — Aquaculture Licences: Aquaculture Licences (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the annual aquaculture and foreshore licence fees (details supplied) due for both Ballynakill Bay, Connemara, County Galway and Freaghillaun Island, County Galway; if his Department has received licence payments for the site at Freaghillaun Island since 1987; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19158/09]

Written Answers — Aquaculture Licences: Aquaculture Licences (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amounts which should be paid by salmon aquaculture companies (details supplied), on an annual basis, in order to receive each of their aquaculture and foreshore licences; the amount each of these companies are in arrears by with respect to their licence fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19163/09]

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: With regard to the reintroduction of university fees legislation that has been promised, has the Minister for Education and Science brought the memorandum before Cabinet yet?

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is promised, if the Tánaiste will check the records. Legislation is required to reintroduce the fees and I am asking whether the memorandum has been brought before Government.

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Government cannot hide it for the local elections. The people in the Public Gallery know they will be paying every year.