Results 4,421-4,440 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: He should do so because he was in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, so it would be appropriate to hear his reply. Can the Minister tell Members what he intends to do?
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: I asked the Minister specifically for a timeline for the legislation.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: Members know what they want to see in the legislation. They know it is complicated. They know the Government finds it difficult to do two things at once. It now is being asked to bring forward either three items of legislation or a single item of legislation.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: Members were told, in respect of a recent election, that it should be possible for politicians to think about two things at once. The Minister should tell Members when the Government intends to address this issue.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: The Minister should go on a FÃS course to learn how to do a couple of things at once because he is not addressing them.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: If they would have him on a FÃS course. He probably would not pass.
- Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: What is ten years?
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: The â¬600 cost per child of the vaccination referred to by the Minister this morning on "Morning Ireland" is dishonest. That the Minister and the Health Service Executive are seriously considering a cost of â¬600 per girl for the three-stage vaccine is not only dishonest, it is incompetent. The Minister's figure is approximately â¬115 and 21% VAT per vaccine shot, with three shots of the...
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: I want to Minister to explain the breakdown that results in the figure of 12,000 girls per year at a cost of â¬600 each. I understand from a radio broadcast this morning that this is where the figure of â¬15 million is derived. The figure simply does not stand up to analysis. Although we have the tables from the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, I rang a family planning...
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: Is the cost of each shot of vaccine not â¬115 plus VAT at a rate of 21%? The vaccines are provided by private companies.
- Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance his views of the level of asset impairment of the institutions covered by the credit institutions financial support scheme; the progress of the review by PriceWaterhouseCoopers; his views of expected write-downs or required capital replacement of those institutions; the estimated exposure or contingent liability of the taxpayer for the guarantee;...
- Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: First, that answer is inadequate given the difficulties faced by the Irish banking sector and because, at present, banks in effect are cutting off the pipelines of credit to many small, medium and large businesses, as well as to many individual borrowers, including those who seek to purchase homes. This is about Main Street and not our equivalent of Wall Street. The Minister only appears...
- Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: I stated his answer was less than adequate. Allow me to rephrase what I stated. The Minister stated the regulator knows the Irish banks in the scheme are not necessarily exposed to sub-prime mortgages. Everyone knows that already because the sub-prime business was only beginning to get off the ground in Ireland. The Minister also stated we are not exposed to, for example, fall-out from...
- Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: The Minister ought to.
- Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: I have two supplementary questions. The Minister finally has confirmed there is no cross-indemnity and, therefore, at a minimum, the Minister and the Taoiseach misled the House.
- Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: I ask the Minister to answer my question again. The Financial Regulator and PriceWaterhouseCoopers for several weeks have been engaged in this review to drill deep into the balance sheets.
- Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: Can the Minister indicate what such drilling has revealed thus far in respect of risky construction and land speculation loans? That is where the risks are, particularly in respect of two of the institutions concerned. Is the Minister more concerned to save the developers than to save the capacity of ordinary businesses to borrow for legitimate business requirements?
- Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: They are not getting it.
- Government Borrowing. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: Wait and see.
- Departmental Expenditure. (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: I sympathise with Deputy Stanton because it is very difficult to make head or tail of the Minister's reply. Concerning the revised programme in July, the Minister said that although the HSE had expected to spend â¬50 million it had been slow in spending and had cut that figure back to â¬30 million. He said that he had put in a saving of â¬17 million into his July savings Estimate in...