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National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: An estimate of billions of euro. Billions of euro have become simply pieces of paper now. The attitude is that €1 billion here or there makes no difference according to Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: We have seen the members of the Green Party crawling to the Fianna Fáil Party over the weekend to get a few bob back to keep our schools running. When the Government introduces a budget next December that will take €4 billion out of the economy, the pain and suffering it will impose on the taxpayer will become apparent.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: At that stage the Members on the Government side of the House will understand the value of €1 billion. The business of it being only €1 billion here or there and only an estimate is unacceptable. It is an estimate which involves making commitments to bondholders in terms of pounds, shillings and pence. This is not monopoly money and these are the facts. Someone told me we had no other...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: The Minister suggested this was cheap money and that it would be a simple job.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: The attitude seems to be, "Why are we all not at it?"

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: According to those on the other side of the House the European Central Bank is giving the money and we do not have to pay anything back. When the Government Deputies wake up, are they capable of asking themselves simple questions? No one gives money in this world unless they expect it to be paid back. No one gives long-term guarantees unless they expect that there is a decent risk. Proper...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: Would the Deputy mind remaining asleep and then read up his notes on the Third World, about which he should be greatly concerned.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: Deputy Power knows a good man about the odds and these are not good odds and the Deputy knows it. They are simply not good odds.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: I am pleased to see that the Minister for Finance is on his way and I call on him, before he wraps up, to explain to me how he proposes to handle the Anglo Irish Bank scene. Would the Minister for Finance ask the child beside him to stay quiet, please?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: Give the Deputy a sucky sweet.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: My simple question is that Anglo Irish Bank will hand over its debts to NAMA and NAMA will hand money back to Anglo, but there is a vast gap because they will not give back what they are taking. How does the Minister intend to handle the additional debt of Anglo in view of the fact that €4 billion has already been invested? How does the Minister intend to handle the additional debt and...

Written Answers — National Spatial Strategy: National Spatial Strategy (14 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: Question 116: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the national spatial strategy is relevant in view of recent population trends; if he will place the strategy or a revised strategy before the Houses of the Oireachtas for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35916/09]

Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: On the same matter, before the Tánaiste replies, my understanding is that when legislation was passed setting up independent radio there was an obligation for independent news to be part and parcel of the licence. Can the Tánaiste explain how this fits into the proposal by INN to close business? What steps are being taken to substitute for it?

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (15 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will extend the REP scheme deadline for spreading slurry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36237/09]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (20 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship through naturalisation of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37032/09]

Written Answers — Vocational Education Committees: Vocational Education Committees (20 Oct 2009)

Seán Barrett: Question 608: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will establish a Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown vocational education committee to coincide with the administrative area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37031/09]

Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: The Adoption Bill is on the Order Paper after coming from the Seanad. Before it is taken in the House, could the Taoiseach ask the relevant Minister to make a statement on foreign adoptions? A number of people have contacted Deputies to convey their concern that if this is ratified under the Hague Convention, people who have spent two or three years negotiating the adoption of a foreign...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: Without wanting to interfere in any way with the workings of any tribunal, would the Taoiseach agree that, as this House set up the tribunals, it should be possible to ask either the Moriarty or Mahon tribunal, instead of waiting for a final report on all modules, that the very minimum that should happen is for the results of the inquiry into individual modules be published as they are...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: What about those people whose names have been dragged into things?

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: So will mine but that is my point.