Results 7,441-7,460 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister made an announcement about the delegation of a significant range of banking functions to the NTMA. It seems the agency is taking over a significant quantum of functions in respect of banking that the Department of Finance used to provide. The NTMA is now to deal with the capital needs of institutions, realignment and restructuring within the institutions and the general advice...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: I wish to ask a very brief supplementary question.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister read out a very long answer and my question is very brief.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The NTMA is not directly answerable to the Dáil so we are nowââ
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Sorry, this is a very real point. The Minister read out very long answersââ
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Sorry, the Minister read out very long answersââ
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: This is very brief. Where is the NTMA if it is not answerable to the Dáil?
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: On a point of order, this was already requested of the Taoiseach who did not seem to know what we were talking about this morning.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Will the Government provide time in the House for a full debate on this new division of functionsââ
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: ââand arrangements with the NTMA?
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach and the Government did not give us the answer. Can the Minister give us the answer?
- European Central Bank Lending. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister agree that in the longer term, the bond markets are likely to count NAMA bonds as part of Irish debt? While I agree with the Minister that there has been much favourable international comment in regard to wage reductions, for example, and a favourable comparison of Ireland with Greece, that is unlikely to sustain itself as the NAMA process works through because the level of...
- European Central Bank Lending. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The nationalisation of the banks.
- Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: I would like to ask the Minister about his Department's handling of a number of freedom of information requests made by me, which have been ongoing since last July or earlier. The requests relate to the handling of the events referred to in Question No. 92. The Department has informed me that of the 90 documents pertaining to my request, it has decided to refuse to release 64 of them, to...
- Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: As my party's finance spokesperson, I am already spending hundreds of euro on trying to get information from the Department of Finance. As a Member of this House, I should be entitled to receive that information. The policy being operated by the Department essentially involves a complete clampdown on the vast bulk of my serious and reasonable freedom of information requests.
- Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister does.
- Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister sets the policy of the Department. He can decide to release this information.
- Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister sets the policy.
- Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Government has disemboweled the freedom of information legislation.
- Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: That is exactly what the Minister and his party have done.