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Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: What is the criterion? Is it the depositor relationship or is it the origin of where they are headquartered?

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister said he may admit Ulster Bank. I am asking him what are the criteria for the non-six. For those outside the six, what criteria will be brought to bear when the Minister is deciding on the submission whether to accept them or not?

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: He is worth every penny.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The word "historic" is overused but it is quite clear that what we are doing is historic, as is what is happening on Capitol Hill. Some things will never be the same again. What Deputy Burton's amendment and that of Deputy Bruton reflect is the concern across the world over the situation in which excessive greed on the part of the leadership of some financial institutions has landed the...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: The first part of section 5 is effectively a sunset clause. Why is a timeframe of two years specified? Why is it not one year or three years? I especially ask this question in the context of the Minister's approach to Brussels. Is the intention to convey that the legislation is to deal with an emergency and is for an emergency period only? We have made several attempts to discover from...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: We will be back.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: There are people already in danger of losing their houses. We have been talking about this Bill as if it were imposed on us by global events and no other factors were at play. Reckless lending is also a factor. I had a case recently of a young couple who, when they signed for a 100% mortgage, were invited to subscribe for a loan for a car. My colleague, Deputy Jack Wall, instanced at a...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: How could putting it in the legislation trammel the Minister in any way?

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: We could be here all day at this rate.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Amendment No. 19a.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I shall be very brief. One suspects that when this hurricane blows itself out the architecture of banking in Ireland and elsewhere will be very different from what we have known in the past. I want clarity from the Minister on this section, to which there are no amendments. It provides for the exceptional situation where the Minister considers it necessary to intervene and where, in such...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: With deference to colleagues, I shall finish now.

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will publish the sustainable travel and transport plan; the measures he plans to include in the policy particularly in relation to addressing increasing transport greenhouse gas emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32525/08]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (1 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the statutory body which has responsibility for providing accommodation to asylum seekers who have been evicted from direct provision facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32740/08]

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: From the Seanad (2 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: There is already.

Garda Complaints Procedures. (2 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases being handled by the whistleblower, Mr. Brian McCarthy, appointed to receive complaints from members of the Garda Síochána; the reason he refused to disclose the location of the whistleblower's office in reply to previous parliamentary questions; if he will confirm that the office is located within his...

Garda Complaints Procedures. (2 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I tabled this question because the Minister gave me an answer previously which said that there is indeed a confidential recipient but that he could not tell me where he is or what he does. Did the Minister read the Morris reports? Does he think there is anything more serious than what is contained in those reports? Does he accept what Mr. Justice Morris says, namely, that what he...

Garda Complaints Procedures. (2 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Civil servants and their Ministers have a habit of calculating how far we will get on oral questions and then giving minimal information in the subsequent written questions or questions that do not come up for oral reply. If I did not personally know Mr. Brian McCarthy, I would have doubted his very existence on the basis of the answer I received previously from the Minister. However, I...

Garda Complaints Procedures. (2 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: In an earlier reply, the Minister would not tell me the location.

Departmental Agencies. (2 Oct 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Is that all this is about?