Results 6,621-6,640 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Has Deputy Mulcahy looked at the bond spreads recently?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: We will not put Deputy Mulcahy in charge of the banks.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The reputational damage to the country would have been far less.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Where was the Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, then?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Would the Minister tell us why his officials were writing to Europe saying Anglo was fine?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister is being helpful in explaining his thinking. Will he comment on that?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It is an extraordinary document.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: That is a matter for all of us.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: On a point of order, my experience of the relationship of the regulator to the Oireachtas committees -----
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It is a point of order. My experience is that the regulator deems himself to be incapable of commenting to an Oireachtas committee in any detail.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It is a point of order. In my experience, and I am sure other Opposition Members will agree with me, the regulator deems himself incapable of commenting in any meaningful way.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: No one said that.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Will this information be in public or in private?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It will be in private. I know that.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister is playing with the House. He appears to offer a crumb here and there but, in effect, as the bankers would put it, it is business as usual. If we are sceptical about the regulator appearing before an Oireachtas committee and opening his heart to it and telling it as it is, it is because we have bitter experience. All during the spring and summer preceding the crash in Anglo...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: If there was no crash, Irish Nationwide is experiencing a little local difficulty, such as needing â¬8 billion of distressed loans to be written off. If that is not a crash, I do not know what is. I worked in banking and â¬8 billion in a small building society constitutes a crash.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: If one went back to the spring and summer of 2007, was the Government doing its job? If the Minister for Finance was doing his job and if the Department of Finance had been awake and was paying attention to what was happening in the banking system, there would have been action that would have diminished the level of the crisis in Ireland by a considerable margin. If the Minister feels that...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister should wait until he is up all night with Senator Cassidy.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: That will be much less impressive than being up all night with me.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: I wish to speak on amendment No. 4, proposed by Labour Party, which has been taken with this amendment.