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

Joan Burton: He can take time out.

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

Joan Burton: On a point of order, do we have to listen to the Minister having a hissy fit because we asked some questions and he will not answer them? The Minister is having a hissy fit because he will not answer the questions we have asked. He should do that in his own time.

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

Joan Burton: Will the Minister answer the questions?

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

Joan Burton: I am all ears.

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

Joan Burton: My question was on why.

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

Joan Burton: We are supposed to ask questions.

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

Joan Burton: It is a bailout for Mr. FitzPatrick and his friends.

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the latest Exchequer figures; their implications on the fiscal position here moving into 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45078/09]

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The Pre-Budget Outlook the Minister mentioned forecast that a further 75,000 jobs will be lost in 2010. In the context of the figures, has the Minister any plans to address the personal tragedies for many of those 75,000 persons? In particular, the Minister noted that income taxes are down significantly. Does he have any plans to get people back to work and thereby increase the income tax...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister set out the facts again? The deficit is €22 billion. There was almost €4 billion for Anglo Irish Bank and €1.5 billion concerning the National Pensions Reserve Fund. That would bring the total deficit for the year to €27.5 billion. Is the Minister not shocked at the sheer scale of the collapse that Fianna Fáil has reduced this country to? When Fianna Fáil came...

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: He bequeathed a modest surplus to the incoming Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance, Mr. McCreevy. In 12 years, Fianna Fáil have managed to turn that modest surplus - when the country was doing well, employment was growing and manufacturing and competitiveness were never stronger - into a catastrophic deficit.

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister takes an interest in history, but does he not have some regrets? He is defending his decision last year to raise VAT by 0.5%. I only wish that the intelligence of what he was saying was borne out in any way.

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: If one talks to traders in the Border counties, one will find that not only are people shopping for alcohol, but they are also shopping for Pampers and almost anything else where mark-ups in the North are 60% or 70% below mark-ups in the Republic. Why is the Government so utterly powerless to do anything to help traders in the Republic?

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: I did not realise the Minister was a supporter of the Tories.

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: He always wants to have it both ways.

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: He is a green Tory.

Fiscal Policy. (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: We used to have three socialists, but now we have three Tories.

Cross-Border Differentials (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Did the Minister swim or walk?

Cross-Border Differentials (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Was the Minister insured?

Cross-Border Differentials (3 Dec 2009)

Joan Burton: Was the Minister comprehensively insured?