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Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister for Finance, who is in charge, cannot be bothered to show up for the debate.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: What message does it send to the international bond markets and bond holders that a junior Minister is sent in to deal with a €400 million plus guarantee in the name of the Irish taxpayer? That is simply not good enough

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: When the quorum was called, was there time for the Minister of State and his staff to contact the Minister for Finance to ask him to come here? He could go to the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party and talk to backbenchers so they could go on the radio, but he could not attend the House to discuss the bank guarantee scheme.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: That is a total dereliction of duty.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

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

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: -----this was introduced to the House on the evening of 16 September, when the initial debate on NAMA was almost over.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: It was slipped out on the evening of 16 September so that it received almost no attention, except from me.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: I raised it with the Taoiseach about five times.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: That is the truth. The Minister of State would not know because he was not involved.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: We all know the people in power at the top of the Government - the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, and the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment - are the aristocrats of Fianna Fáil with three generations of party pedigree. Truly, they are aristocrats because like the Bourbons, the Minister for Finance's non-appearance in the...

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: True to his imitation of the Bourbons, we are but the national Parliament and we do not deserve any information. In France, the aristocrats may have held sway for some time but, eventually, they had to give way to the people and the people's assembly.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Can I ask-----

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Has a message come from the Minister that he is going to reply?

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Yes. If the Minister is going to appear, I wish to call another quorum so that the Members of Fianna Fáil can at least come into the Chamber-----

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: ------for this important debate. Some €440 billion is at stake and only one Member of Fianna Fáil - more recently joined by another Member - is present in the House, which is a disgrace. I call for a quorum. Notice taken that 20 Members were not present; House counted and 20 Members being present,

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The Financial Times does not think that.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The remarks might be even more derogatory next Wednesday.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The two year guarantee was meant to fix it all.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: We did not ask about not doing the scheme. We asked specific questions.

Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) Scheme 2009: Motion (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: There is no call for that. We went to the trouble of reading and critiquing the scheme, and the Minister is upset. Why does the Government not do the same?