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National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Give us another bar of Obama.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister did not get applause like that since the medical cards.

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (16 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 293: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that all bookmakers' betting duty payments are up to date in 2009; if not, if the provisions of section 29 (6) of the 2009 Finance Act are being fully enforced; if not, his views that the taxpayer subsidise slow-to-pay bookmakers; if further attention has been drawn to the fact that the Internet...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (16 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 294: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that of the ten largest bookmakers marketing here, only two companies employ Internet staff here while the other eight companies are located in low tax regimes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31510/09]

Written Answers — Firearms Licences: Firearms Licences (16 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 649: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the provisions of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 have been implemented; if his attention has been drawn to employment implications that have arisen since the Bill was enacted; when new gun licences will be issued to law abiding citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31044/09]

Criminal Law (Home Defence) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to share time with Deputies Joanna Tuffy and Aengus Ó Snodaigh.

Criminal Law (Home Defence) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Listening to the debate so far one cannot but be struck by the realisation that there is a serious clash between what the law provides, in particular the common law, and the view of the ordinary citizen who is confronted by an intruder with criminal intent in the family home. There is no doubt at all but that there is considerable fear about the extent of intrusions that we have read about...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I am surprised the Tánaiste did not read it over the summer.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Will the banks believe that?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I would like to raise a number of questions with the Minister for Finance on behalf of business people trying to plan their survival in the real economy. I would be obliged if the Minister when he replies to the Second Stage debate would address these acute concerns of people who are trying to stay in business and retain their workers in employment. The debate for the past number of weeks...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I have quoted him often in the House. I was a Member when no financial measure could be put through the House without Mr. Desmond being consulted about his opinion. There was a time I thought he was more powerful than the Minister for Finance of the day.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I have often quoted Mr. Desmond. Regarding this legislation, he stated: Nama as conceived will do untold long-term damage to Ireland Inc. It will result in paralysis for decades to come. Ireland's key focus must be to get the economy moving again and start to promote the real economy. Without this tax revenues will continue at the current low levels and unemployment outside the public sector...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: We are still a sovereign Government and no Minister, including the Minister for Finance, has come in here and explained to the House why, on day one, the Government included long-term subordinated debt in the terms of the guarantee. It was remarkable. It was picked up very shortly afterwards on these benches by my party leader, Deputy Gilmore, and my colleague Deputy Burton, but we have...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: It is pathetic. Deputy Mulcahy is correct.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: Why are they pathetic?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I apologise.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I am puzzled as to how anybody could dispute what happened in Anglo Irish Bank, where a small private bank was allowed to grow and grow until it threatened the entire banking system. I will leave out the friends of Fianna Fáil if that is what offended-----

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I will leave that out. I also wish to raise a question under section 218, which concerns the Minister for Finance trying to insert himself between the Comptroller and Auditor General and his reporting to the Committee of Public Accounts or to this House. I remind him that the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General is a constitutional office and I do not understand how the Minister can...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: During a radio debate with me the other morning, the Minister, Deputy O'Dea, disputed that there is a recovery taking place elsewhere in the world. He did not know about anything else that was going on because he had forgotten to bring his BlackBerry with him from Limerick. The era of excess based on debt is over. Twice in this generation, Fianna Fáil has brought this country to the edge...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: I do not believe the Bill represents the way to national recovery. It may sort out the bad debt problem, but it will not get liquidity flowing to the real economy. There is still time to rethink this measure. A better proposal will not save Fianna Fáil, but it may save our economy.