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Written Answers — Stability and Growth Pact: Stability and Growth Pact (13 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of any agreements to which Ireland and the Exchequer is subject under the stability programme; the extent to which these agreements are legally binding and enforceable; if these agreements are subject to change with agreement of the EU institutions; the mechanisms and procedures for effecting such change; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Stability and Growth Pact: Stability and Growth Pact (13 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of any agreements to which Ireland and the Exchequer are subject under the excessive deficit procedure; the extent to which these agreements are legally binding and enforceable; if these agreements are subject to change with agreement of the EU institutions; the mechanisms and procedures for effecting such change; and if he will make...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: I oppose the imposition of a guillotine on the NAMA legislation. When the Bill was introduced in the House, the Minister gave an undertaking that there would be no guillotine and that all Members who wished to contribute to the debate would be able to do so. At €54 billion and counting, this is probably the most expensive legislation that has ever come before the House. To suggest that...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Will the Taoiseach tell the House when the Government proposes to commence Committee Stage of the NAMA legislation? Second, I ask the Taoiseach and his Government to give serious consideration to having this most important legislation dealt with in this Chamber. The committee rooms are small and there are many Members of all parties who wish to contribute on...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: On a point of information-----

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach has been very helpful and the matter of how this will work is very important. Did the Taoiseach say that Committee Stage would commence on 21 October? If that is the case, we must have our amendments in by 10 a.m. Second Stage of the Bill is being voted on only tonight. It would be impossible. We would not even have a chance to hear what the Minister for Finance proposes....

Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: If that is so, will the Whip clarify whether we must have all our amendments in by 10 a.m.?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister not understand?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister is very challenged if he cannot understand that.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: How shocking?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Who wants to be-----

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Why did the Minister not refer to the minutes of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Start Mortgages?

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 125: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when commencement orders will be made in relation to the sale of local authority apartments following the enactment of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35813/09]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 127: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of social housing applicants currently waiting to have a housing assessment completed; the proportion of those awaiting a determination with regard to rent supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35814/09]

Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: On the same issue, we received the document immediately prior to the vote last night and we had no opportunity to assess it. If the document was issued in the private sector to the Stock Exchange it would carry, as an IPO document, very heavy legal and contractual obligations for its authors, who could be sued by disaffected shareholders if the information in the document was false.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: There is no indication of who is the author of the document, what legal or professional responsibility he or she is taking for it, or whether it is the Minister's personal document. I support what Deputy Bruton stated about the Comptroller and Auditor General or another qualified person examining the document. However, it needs to be debated prior to Committee Stage because it is not a...

Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: Yes, we asked for it.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: I asked whether the Government will provide a mechanism to debate the document which does not feature in the Bill or in the amendments.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Joan Burton: How does the Ceann Comhairle know that? Was he told that?