Results 4,261-4,280 of 32,583 for speaker:Richard Bruton
- Financial Sector. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Does the Minister agree it would be a good idea to publish a stability report to give us confidence? Does he agree it would be worthwhile to meet the banks to protect loan availability to vital areas of the economy in this period?
- Fiscal Policy. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Minister's clippings are falling down.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Will the Minister publish cost-benefit analyses on the projects selected to proceed so that we can have confidence that robust projects are being selected? Will the cost-benefit analysis include some form of independent auditing to ensure we do not end up with the type of rose-tinted analysis often produced by parent Departments and will we have an opportunity to debate these in the House?...
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: That is not what I asked the Minister. I want protection from the Chair to ensure the questions I ask are answered.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I asked if a cost-benefit analysis will be undertaken and if it will be published. It is only then that I will be interested in a debate. I do not want a free rolling debate with backbenchers being rolled in to read out speeches off a word processor.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Minister stated on radio that he is open to publishing them, yet he will not say so in the House.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I am not aware of that at all, although I would like to believe it.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Minister is reneging on what he said on radio, namely, that he is open to publishing these reports. He is foot stepping the issue.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I wish to ask a question.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle will share my scepticism at the Minister's silky assurances that everything in the Department of Finance is carefully assessed.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I will not do so. I ask the Minister whether the â¬900 million for the decentralisation programme was carefully assessed in the Department. Was the â¬52 million spent on e-voting carefully assessed in the Department, or the â¬160 million on PPARS? I could go on and list all the projects we see year in, year out in the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Let us be honest...
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: What assessment was done before the politicians took the decision?
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: We expected that a business case would be made or an assessment carried out.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: That is the sort of answer the Minister would get away with in the Dáil bar, but not here. Unfortunately, we are time-constrained.
- Appointments to State Boards. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I welcome the fact that the Minister intends to put some thought into this, but I hope it does not suffer the fate of his thoughts about publishing evaluations. Does the Minister not agree that we would be much more assured of the quality of the people appointed if we had some level of assessment by an Oireachtas committee? I am not talking about a Star Chamber, but an Oireachtas committee...
- Value for Money Initiative. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Minister evaded the question which was whether he would allow the Oireachtas to initiate the evaluation. We represent the people who use public services and see good and bad. The issue for us is that several other parliaments have very strong evaluation arms available to them. They carry out serious evaluations of performance and are backed in doing that work. The Government has a...
- Economic Competitiveness. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I suppose it is the elephant in the room so far as competitiveness is concerned, but can I ask the Minister about the role of sectors that he manages or regulates? Does he accept that half of the inflation generated since 2000, excluding mortgage interest, has been generated by services directly provided or regulated by the Government? Does he intend to benchmark the competitiveness of...
- Economic Competitiveness. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: We have the highest price for electricity and the highest rate of increase. Riddle me that?
- Economic Competitiveness. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Minister does not have personal responsibility. The responsibility lies with the public sector, which he manages.
- Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the level of deposit protection for savers in Irish financial institutions. [31447/08]