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Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Our second problem is with the funding of the asset purchases and the year-by-year cost of the associated public debts. What are they? The third issue is the absence of any commitment to public accountability and oversight such as the procedures put in place in the USA's troubled assets relief programme, TARP, or in the programmes of Sweden and other countries which did nationalise their...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Joan Burton: This is a truly appalling vista. A 15% haircut is a joke and so are all the dodgy notions about fair value and intrinsic value that we hear about from the vested interests who want to get the State to pay over the odds for their reckless purchases of development lands. Some of the fields outside towns around the country are again being considered as agricultural land because they are no...

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (13 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many mortgage holders on high rate, fixed interest mortgages who have suffered significant income reductions in the past year and who have not benefitted from the European Central Bank interest rate reductions are having difficulties meeting mortgage repayments and that such mortgage holders are...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (13 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce legislation to establish an extra judicial debt settlement mechanism for persons who have problems meeting loan repayment commitments and whose creditors are seeking an agreed repayment schedule without recourse to the courts; the reason the delay in their publication in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Public Sector Remuneration: Public Sector Remuneration (13 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance if the powers provided under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 include a power by regulation to reduce rents payable by the State and public bodies under leases of land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19142/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (13 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a list of all voluntary not-for-profit organisations providing home help and home care package services to the State and information (details supplied) in relation to each organisation for 2008 and the first quarter of 2009. [19141/09]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: I ask for a debate in respect of SR Technics which now seems to be doomed. Will the Tánaiste allow a debate under the terms of Standing Order 32?

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Before anything is agreed on the Order of Business, I would like to have a commitment from the Tánaiste that in the House today she will discuss what is another jobs disaster for the Dublin region. It concerns not only the north side of Dublin but also the counties of Meath, Louth and Kildare and surrounding areas where many people of the 1,200 people employed by SR Technics live. This...

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: ------to take assets out of Ireland, asset strip the Irish company and only leave the base of the skilled workers - 1,200 men - with nothing to do. It is a tragedy for the families involved and the economy in a week when the Dublin Airport Authority has announced a further 400 redundancies. Will the Tánaiste come into the Dáil today before we agree to anything on the Order of Business-----

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: -----to see whether we can work out a strategy for the 1,000 workers at SR Technics who will be unemployed. From now on it will cost the State at least €20 million a year in addition to the €15 million it will pay out in redundancy payments. It is a no-brainer that the Tánaiste should put a package together to try to salvage something for the economy of the greater Dublin region.

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: On behalf of all the Labour Deputies I join in the tributes to Mick Phelan. He is one of the people who always brightens up Dáil Éireann, particularly when one comes in on a wet day, such as today, and he encourages one to keep on going, just as he encourages Kildare to keep going. He has given long service stretching back to the time of Liam Cosgrave as Taoiseach. He served before that...

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: I refer to the notice published yesterday on the NTMA website advertising and tendering for advisers for NAMA. We have received legal advice that proceeding with NAMA as a shadow agency is very fraught in terms of the constitutional and legal proprieties. Information held by the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and other agencies is confidential under the terms of the legislation....

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Will the Tánaiste indicate if it is the intention of the Government to proceed with a shadow NAMA with all costs on the taxpayer but without legal clarity, particularly in the context of the legal advice that legislative power is required? I inform the Tánaiste that in respect of NAMA and particularly in respect of the earlier reply on SR Technics-----

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: If the Tánaiste were on "The Apprentice" she would be told, "You are fired" because of the lack of performance. Can the Tánaiste tell us what is happening on NAMA and when the legislation will appear?

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: They are not elected. The Tánaiste is.

Job Losses. (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: I thank the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for her reply which strongly suggests she is throwing in the towel on the survival of an operating facility in Dublin for anything more than one quarter of the current workforce at SR Technics. She seems to accept as a reality that SR Technics can asset-strip key equipment from the Dublin facility, thus disabling SR...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, by number and value, the proportion of leases for office accommodation entered into by the Commissioners of Public Works for fixed rents, that are subject to rent review clauses, and that are subject to upwards only rent review clauses; if and when the Office of Public Works ceased to agree to upwards only rent review clauses;...

Written Answers — Bus Services: Bus Services (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will clarify the position in relation to the continued use of the Dublin Port tunnel by the 41X service run by Dublin Bus; if he will withdraw permission for this service to use the tunnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19452/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: The report of the Independent Monitoring Commission drew attention to the fact that although, to a certain extent, it did not see the Real IRA or the Continuity IRA posing a fundamental threat at this time, it noted both groups were heavily involved in crime. It listed crimes such as drug dealing, tiger kidnapping, robbery, extortion, smuggling, fuel laundering and, specifically in the case...

Northern Ireland Issues. (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: The crime that the north and west side of Dublin in particular is experiencing is beyond parallel, as the murders are savage and violent. People believe there are strong links with dissident republican groups. The Independent Monitoring Commission stated in its report that the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA are heavily involved in all the crimes I listed, the crimes that specifically...