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- Order of Business (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: The Parliament is entitled to take a position.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: A Cheann Comhairle, under what standing order are you bringing in this procedure? We are being told that amendments in our name are being disallowed by you because we are trying to introduce new material, but in this case you allow the Government to rescind a formal decision taken by the House without any "by your leave". I do not think that is fair play. If the Minister feels that this...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Under what Standing Order?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: The Ceann Comhairle might read out the Standing Order because there is a sense of unfair play here.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Can we hear the Standing Order.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I would like to know what is the precedent under Standing Order 26 for the Government to reverse a decision of the House in this way? This is deciding by fiat that a matter debated and dealt with in order by the House no longer stands. The Taoiseach cannot read out from a bit of a paper and rule out what the Parliament has done. That would be like throwing out some item of legislation on...
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: What precedent is there for the use of the Standing Order to rescind a decision of the House?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I have not seen it.
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Was the Opposition notified of the intention to make a change?
- Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: The white sheet was circulated.
- Fiscal Policy. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Finance the cumulative cuts in the public investment programme made to date; and if further cuts in investment in 2011 represents a sound basis for economic recovery. [11991/10]
- Fiscal Policy. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister for his reply. If the Minister proceeds with a cut in spending of â¬1 billion next year, over the years 2009-11 he will have taken almost â¬9 billion out of capital spending. It will reduce spending by almost one third compared to what was projected in the capital budget. We know from the ERSI that the impact of that would be the equivalent of 90,000 jobs in the...
- Fiscal Policy. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: In the past 18 months, some 200,000 people have become unemployed, more than 80% of whom are under the age of 30. Are we at risk of pursuing a very limited policy of retrenchment when we need a combination of investment, reform and restructuring? The Minister's narrow track risks a correction in the economy which will be ground out by mass unemployment rather than examining where we can...
- Banking Sector Regulation. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has satisfied himself with the effectiveness of the powers of enforcement when regulatory failures or failures of corporate governance occur in the banking sector. [11993/10]
- Banking Sector Regulation. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Does the Minister share the dismay of the public that, 18 months into the financial crisis, no one has been held to account? In the US there are 42 bankers in jail and the banks are paying money back to the state for the assistance they got. Are inquiries or sanctions being pursued against the financial institutions that are at the core of the failure? Does a vagueness in the definition...
- Banking Sector Regulation. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: The fraud squad has been involved for the past 12 months and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement stated at least ten months that prima facia evidence existed of a criminal offence ten months ago but nothing has happened. We have not even seen the legal changes that would clarify the offences and the type of probity and fitness required to serve on a board. Nothing has...
- Banking Sector Regulation. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: The Minister's colleagues told us months ago that charges were imminent.
- Flood Relief. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I was encouraged by the Minister of State's last comment that he is confident his plans will deal with flooding risk.
- Flood Relief. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: Incidents described as 200 year events have happened on more than one occasion in the past two years. Is the planning model for flood relief being followed by the OPW up to standard given the changes that are clearly taking place in climactic conditions? Has he reviewed the priority needed to given to flood relief in light of the events of the last few years?
- Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)
Richard Bruton: I read the high level statement of the Department, which sets its targets. These include a high performing public service, value for money, a regulatory structure that secures public confidence, an effectively functioning banking system and budgetary stability. If anyone sought a comprehensive statement of everything that has gone wrong in the past three or four years, it is available in...