Results 5,941-5,960 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: It was savage.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: Many people do not have trust in that.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: This is one of five guillotines that is proposed for this week. We find this unacceptable. This Bill deals with the guarantee scheme for individual depositors, but the Minister published a supplementary miscellaneous provisions Bill on Friday evening. From the Dáil schedule, I understand this Bill will come before the House and be guillotined next week. It provides for the bank guarantee...
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: It is the amount of harbours in south Dublin.
- Order of Business. (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: It is a declaration of war.
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: I propose to share time with Deputies Sherlock and Morgan.
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: This Bill must be judged as part of an overall banking package which the Minister has proposed on several occasions to introduce. It seems he has now decided, perhaps for tactical and strategic reasons, to split the package into several separate legislative proposals. The Bill before us was published at the end of May. Last Friday the Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009...
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: I had asked about the deposit guarantee scheme in April 2008. The Taoiseach, then Minister for Finance, replied: I would remind the Deputy that, as I have mentioned in response to previous similar questions, the first and most robust line of defence for depositors must be a well-managed system of prudential regulation and supervision so as to try to minimise the risk that a DGS needs to be...
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: Therefore, the debt will be bought back at approximately 30 cent in the euro.
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister has not provided a detailed picture of what will be our liability in respect of Anglo Irish Bank. Nor has he indicated for how long that liability will hang like a millstone around the necks of every man, woman and child in this country. In the meantime, ordinary businesses cannot obtain money to fund their day-to-day working capital and expansionary needs. Those who wish to...
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister was still maintaining at the time that everything in the garden was rosy. Will he indicate why there is no differentiation of risk among the covered institutions? At present, if I have money to deposit and choose to lodge it with the riskiest institution because it is offering the highest rate of interest, the said institution will only contribute the same amount to the...
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: Our unemployment figure is much worse. That has been the real shock in the economy.
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: I am not advocating anything.
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: It is a consequence of the Minister's actions.
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: What about the Government guarantee to bondholders?
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister was reckless with the guarantee.
- Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister should give us the figures.
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the timeframe for the completion and publication of the review of the sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23692/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the recently announced career break scheme for civil servants to staff employed in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23538/09]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (16 Jun 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the cases whereby former public servants, in particular those at University College Dublin or other institutions of higher education, could have their pension subject to the pension levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23694/09]