Results 6,601-6,620 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Order of Business. (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: On the same matter, is it intended to recommit those significant new sections that are in the Bill, for example, section 135, dealing with the windfall tax, and section 129, dealing with the surcharge. If it is just introduced on Report Stage, there is very little opportunity to discuss it. If the Minister does not intend to recommit in order to allow those kinds of amendments to have a...

Order of Business. (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Is the Ceann Comhairle suggesting that the Minister will provide for the recommittal of those new amendments to a Committee Stage-style discussion? There are a number of other significant amendments but those two are probably the best known, namely, that dealing with the proposed windfall tax and that dealing with the proposed surcharge in regard to bank profits rather than the levy. Can...

Order of Business. (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The purpose of amendment No. 4 is to provide for the appointment of an oversight committee. This debate on Report Stage is, in effect, the last serious opportunity we have in the Dáil to try, on behalf of citizens and taxpayers, to correct the dreadful flaws in the Minister's proposals for NAMA. I refer in particular to the decision to overpay for the assets by a factor of at least €7...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: -----shrugging his shoulders and looking as though he does not really believe in this concept.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Citizen journalism is one of the great, new extensions of freedom brought about through the Internet. Thank God we have it in the context of our banking crisis. Why do we not trust the Minister and the Department of Finance on this matter? Over the summer I requested information under freedom of information legislation on the dealings between the Department and Anglo Irish Bank in the...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister can quibble all he likes with Jesuitical hairs-----

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: We are trying on behalf of people in Ireland-----

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: I was talking to a business person this morning who last year was employing 15 people and this year is employing nine people. He is desperately trying to keep those nine people in employment. Similar to the experiences of other business people around the country his bank called him in last week to tell him that they were going to increase the charges and interest rates applying to the...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister has been promoted and demoted fairly quickly.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: It happens in other jurisdictions.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: That is not the purpose of this section.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Should be doing but there is no freedom of speech.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Deputy Mulcahy does not have any experience of being in Government or working with civil servants. If he had, he would not be making that kind of comment.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: And the Government did not thank them too much for that.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, did not have the backbone to go against Anglo Irish bank-----

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: -----and look after the taxpayers' interests.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, bares a high responsibility for all of this.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: What if they are rubbish?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Really. Has the Deputy looked at the bond spreads recently?