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Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Now it is to take over the functions of a regulator that everyone-----

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Are the media reports true? When is the NAMA legislation likely to be before the House and will the heads of the Bill or the Bill itself be published before the recess on 10 July or during the summer?

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: People like me do a lot of reading by the beach. The Taoiseach probably does, too.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach's favourite-----

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: And now the Government is abolishing it.

Vote 41 — Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised Estimate). (24 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: We know what WC Fields said, that one should never work with animals or children.

Vote 41 — Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised Estimate). (24 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister for Finance is given to having soaring rhetoric at the end of his speeches. One recalls his standing ovation following last October's budget. He said at the end of today's speech, "There are no soft options or safe hiding places. The time has now come..." In terms of the Budget Statement, there were soft options and hiding places. The Minister was the person who took them,...

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Read paragraph 25.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Paragraph 25.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister go back to paragraph 25?

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: That is like the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Mary Coughlan, on the radio-----

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: I have not had an opportunity to speak.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Paragraph 43 of the report says that the economic situation here will be an episode of the most severe economic distress since the Second World War.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister did not read paragraph 43.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: This will be the most severe period of economic distress since the Second World War and the Minister will not have a debate on it.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Not since Pontius Pilate have we have had a Minister who washes his hand of his own economic history and his own Government.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister want a star for going on for about 20 minutes on RTE this morning? He sounded like the Tánaiste not the Minister for Finance as he rambled on.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: He rambled about how he was nothing to do with the Government but merely a supporter.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Does he want a kindergarten star?

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister is just a camp follower.