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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: He cannot even meet the 1,200 workers who are losing their jobs.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Like the Deputy's.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: It was the greatest disaster ever.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: It was the most disastrous decision ever.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I was right.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Unfortunately I was right and the Deputy was wrong and stupid.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Unfortunately I was right.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: We know the Government considered the regulator and gave him a big pay-off of €644,000. We know it thought about the regulator losing his job.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: The Government was very nice in that regard and it looked after the bankers who were leaving. They got their money——

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: It was sad.

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied there is a regime in place to monitor the implementation of the terms of the consultants' contract; if the terms of the contract are being implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6532/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (19 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extra funding that will be required in 2009 in order to implement the agreement reached on new consultants' contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6533/09]

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I wish to share time with Deputies Rabbitte and Morgan. The speech we just heard from the Minister for Finance was, to use an American term, a vanilla ice-cream speech. It was a vanilla ice-cream speech on banking in which everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. To add to the sense we have from this Government of panic, dread and confusion, we also have a very valiant...

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I do not know if those names were correct. They were published in The Sunday Times and would be familiar to most people who have been involved in battling against some bad rezonings on the green belt in my constituency. If those names are correct they would be better known to members of Fianna Fáil. The Government has put up a straw man argument on why we are not entitled to know those...

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: This deal on the toxic ten or golden circle of people apparently familiar with the Fianna Fáil tent at the Galway races was a serious misrepresentation regarding other shareholders, the market and the general public who are carrying the can for this toxic golden circle. Protestations of banker-client confidentiality do not arise in this context and the Minister for Finance, as sole...

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: We have due diligence walking all around the House now. It is at every hand but it was not there on 29 September or on 1 October last.

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I wrote to the Regulator subsequently and he wrote back stating that for the reasons of confidentiality, which he set out, he was unable to comment on any possible interest of Seán Quinn and his family in Anglo Irish Bank.

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: He went on to state that there is, however, a statutory process through which an individual or corporate entity acquiring 10% or more of the shares of a bank must notify the authority of their intention to undertake the transaction and seek what was termed "our" private approval. He wrote that in addition, the target institution is also obliged to notify the Regulator. He added that on foot...

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: When the Government brought in the guarantee——

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: That is the Regulator's letter of December last to me.