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Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: That is the regulator's letter to me.

Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: If I can get that letter as an Opposition spokesperson, I challenge the Minister of State, Deputy Kelleher, to set on the record of this House what the Government has done to make the position of every man, woman and child in this country for the next 20 years much worse than it would otherwise have been except for the chicanery that has been coming from a high level in his party.

Written Answers — Export Credit Insurance: Export Credit Insurance (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proposals under development in her Department to establish a State-backed export credit insurance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6367/09]

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (24 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will make a statement on her meeting with a person in December 2008 in regard to employment at a company (details supplied) in County Limerick. [7255/09]

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: What progress, if any, has been made to bring forward legislation on management companies? The situation is deteriorating rapidly. There are apartment blocks where only three or four apartments have been sold.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: The management company situation is in complete chaos. These tenants are young people and the situation is also stopping people buying apartments.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Does the Taoiseach have any idea when this legislation is coming in? Will the Taoiseach clarify the amending Bill for the national pension reserve fund and the €7 billion for Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland? Is that legislation being published today and when does he expect it to come before the House?

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I am sorry but I am not sure what the Taoiseach just said.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Did he say that the legislation on management companies is to be brought forward to the next session?

Order of Business (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: If the Taoiseach wants to revive the housing market, he should get his people to do something.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, before section 1, to insert the following new section: "1.—(1) This Act shall expire on the day that is 2 years from the date of its passing unless renewed by resolution of both Houses of the Oireachtas. (2) Any such renewal shall be expressed to be for a period not exceeding 2 years.". This amendment provides for a sunset clause for the levy which would...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister may wish to look at the newspaper records and listen to the recorded conversation when the then Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, described the former chairman of the bank as his friend Seanie when they were on the same platform. It would inform the Minister of all he needs to know about the closeness of those circles. Civil and public servants are realistic. They want to see the...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I am not an easy person to threaten. If the Minister wants to threaten me to repeat what I said outside the House, I will do so any time he likes.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I am not afraid. I took on the Minister's colleague, the late Liam Lawlor, for many years in Dublin West. I know all about Fianna Fáil and its threats. I am not intimidated by the Minister or the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Power.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I have more experience of being threatened by Fianna Fáil than the Minister of State thinks. The Minister has some knowledge of the way the system operated in Dublin West; therefore, the Minister of State should not threaten me.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I thank the Acting Chairman for his protection. Public servants realise the country is in a hole and what caused the massive deterioration in the public finances. Despite the Minister's earlier promises to address the anomalies in the Bill, his amendments are purely technical in nature. The first anomaly is that low-paid public servants will have to pay the levy. The second serious anomaly...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Yes. When the budget was debated, we highlighted to the Minister for Finance that his proposal was crazy. The Minister rushed to increase the VAT rate by 0.5% and did not take any advice from those Members who informed him that it was not the wisest action to take. Among the Members to whom I refer was Deputy Morgan, who told the Minister at the time that shoppers — I do not know whether...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister would not take advice from us on the matter at that time. We are now advising him that a sunset clause relating to the pension levy should be included in the Bill. I would be fairly confident in predicting that he will not be Minister for Finance in two years' time. He might, therefore, be glad to be in a position — probably from the Opposition benches — to revisit the...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: The point is that the description of the Bill refers to serious disturbances in the economy.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: It also refers to providing for the amendment of the Income Tax Act. My amendments that were ruled out included a proposal to amend the Income Tax Act so that people could not get big capital tax losses from the €451 million loan deal in Anglo-Irish Bank and a number of other matters.