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Written Answers — Deposit Guarantee Scheme: Deposit Guarantee Scheme (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Finance if the payout delay period for depositors in the deposit guarantee scheme for banks and building societies has been reduced from three months to three days in line with the proposals of the EU Commission on 15 October, 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3368/09]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures and actions he will take to examine the reasons behind the regulatory failure in the financial services sector here to determine the changes that are required; if he will give a commitment to engage a broad range of stakeholders, such as academics, consumer representatives and social partners; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the report which he has requested the Revenue Commissioners to undertake into the cost of cross-Border shopping to the Exchequer to be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3371/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff in his Department, including whole-time equivalent numbers from clerical officer grade to assistant secretary at October 2008. [3346/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff the Courts Service employ including whole-time equivalent numbers from clerical officer grade to assistant secretary at October 2008. [3347/09]

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (3 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 434: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the nature of both the recruitment process, and contracts offered, within his Department to the former director and assistant director of the Centre of Early Childhood Development and Education; if the posts were advertised through a public recruitment process; if the new posts were created on a permanent basis; and if he will make...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: That will not help our——

Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: When does the Government propose to publish expenditure profiles for 2009? I asked this question of the Tánaiste yesterday. It has always been the custom to have these published towards the end of January and it is very difficult for Opposition spokespersons to make informed comments on how the economy is going unless the profiles are published. The Taoiseach referred yesterday to pensions...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: These are reasonable points. I am trying to be of assistance to the Taoiseach. It is difficult for those of us who take these issues seriously——

Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: ——to make sense of them unless we are provided with the necessary information.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: It was €50,000.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: An extra €50,000.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Each of whom will obtain an extra €50,000.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: When I heard the Minister's offering earlier I was reminded of a song that was often sung when I was a child, God save Ireland said the Heroes. God needs to look kindly on Ireland because what the Minister for Finance offered today and what the Taoiseach offered yesterday is so incomplete and lacking in vision. It is so unsure and uncertain because we have been down this road of adjustment,...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I warned against the Japanese model. In the early 1990s after the Cold War, Japan's economy was devastated by a burst property bubble with house and land prices tumbling and undermining the property-related assets and loan books of many Japanese banks. Rather than encouraging their banks to come clean on their balance sheets and write off their bad debts, the Japanese Government facilitated...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I am sorry. The Minister was prepared to do it on an emergency basis with Anglo Irish Bank being the centre of the rescue, not the system. Not only that——-

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: As Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan knew from the minute he stepped into office that there had been extraordinary dealings in the shares of Anglo Irish Bank by one of the largest industrial companies in the States.

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister also had a weak Financial Regulator. I do not believe he could have eyeballed the office cat in the banks. Yet, the Financial Regulator was asked to eyeball some of the most powerful and richest people in the country to tell them what they were doing did not seem quite right. Deputy Sherlock listened to one bank auditor yesterday at a committee declare that although he was...

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Is it not? I will tell the Tánaiste——

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I will tell the Tánaiste how incompetent her Government is.