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Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Ryan: Of the additional €75 million provided in 2009 for labour intensive investment in home insulation and energy efficiency measures, €20 million was allocated to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government for investment in social housing energy efficiency. €55 million was allocated to a number of energy efficiency schemes administered by Sustainable Energy Ireland...

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: This is the right public inquiry, carried out by public bodies in the public interest in public as well as on the back of proper investigative work.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: It is up to everyone in this House to ensure that the investigation is timely, cost effective and that it delivers what we want, which is that we learn the lessons from this banking crisis and that we do not ever allow it to happen again,-----

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----that we hold people to account who are responsible for it and, crucially, that we bring confidence back to our system, primarily among people in this country but also abroad.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The method we are setting out is the way in which that can be achieved.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The investigation has a timeframe. Other tribunals have taken up to ten years to do their work.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: This investigation will be cost effective compared to other systems-----

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----where they have cost up to €200 million to carry out their work.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The investigation will be effective and democratic.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: I will not give way. I have five minutes.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: It will be democratic because at the very centre of it-----

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----because at the very centre of it will be the work of an Oireachtas committee that will be required first and foremost to help steer it in the right direction.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: Second, when the initial reports are concluded, they will be considered and acted upon as we move into the proper phase of the commission's work. When that work is concluded, be it an interim report or a final report, we will conduct the necessary hearings-----

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----based on the facts that have been found, which an Oireachtas committee would not as easily be able to find, to hold people to account and to ensure we have a cost effective, timely inquiry.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The mechanisms set out will achieve those objectives.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: They will only work if we in this House stop playing political games and start working together in the interests of the people-----

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----to try to ensure that our banking system never again makes the mistakes that were made in recent years. The investigation needs to examine the regulatory side of the banks, what the banks are doing, while cognisant of the fact that it is the courts which have primary responsibility for convicting people, if appropriate, who have carried out illegal activities within the banks. It should...

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: We have to take account of lessons that we learned in the course of the mini-CTC inquiry, which came to a dead end because it did not have the right structure. We have taken account of the likes of the DIRT inquiry, in which Deputy Rabbitte was involved. One of the reasons that worked is that a similar process was involved whereby a report was delivered first to establish some of the facts,...

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: -----and how we can stop it happening again. That can happen with the structure proposed.

Banking Crisis: Statements (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Ryan: There will be many occasions when the investigation will be done in public as well as being done on the back of investigative work to find the facts.