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Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: It is business, not personal.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Where is the beef?

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Where are the Minister's figures?

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Where are the figures?

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: There is nothing in them.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The Taoiseach wants the Opposition parties to reveal their hands long before he reveals his own. It is like asking Giovanni Trapattoni to show his tactical notes to his French counterpart a full 24 hours before the game starts in Paris. All I can say to the Taoiseach is to dream on. The pre-budget outlook is a dishonest and deceitful document. What credence can citizens give to a document...

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Coincidentally, this is almost the same figure as the Minister's targeted budget correction for next year. The Minister and Fianna Fáil want us to believe that the budget deficit and the bank bailout are entirely unconnected. However, the inconvenient truth is that if it was not for the €3.8 billion allocation to Anglo Irish Bank the deficit would have been far closer to the April target...

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: One might say I am a glutton for punishment after too many late nights in this august Chamber. What lessons has the peace process for us as we attempt to deal with our economic woes? Two features stand out for me. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and we all jump together. Both are of vital importance now. The main gripe people had earlier this year was the sheer unfairness of...

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: They are slow learners.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Were they in the remedial class?

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: It is a class for slow learners.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The incinerator could burn the €6 billion that is going into Anglo Irish Bank.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The Deputy's party brought us there. We are where they delivered us.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Talk to the 1,200 people in Swords who lost their jobs. The two Ministers were not even awake on the job to address SR Technics.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: We do not find it out on budget day. We usually only find out about it three or four days after the budget.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: I would be interested to hear the Minister's input to the budget.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister have a single idea?

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister does not have a single idea.

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: What?

Pre-budget Outlook: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2009)

Joan Burton: After all it has done.