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Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: With regard to amendment No. 31, the Minister has already included the thrust of this amendment in the Bill as amended. We discussed it on Committee Stage and in that context I will withdraw the amendment.

Finance Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: This a serious issue for the car hire industry and the tourism sector. The Minister will be aware of the significant rental operations located in various business parks in our constituency. It now costs far more to hire a car in Ireland than in France and most other European countries. The supply of cars has diminished at a time when dealers would like to sell vehicles. The current...

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (10 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance his exit strategy from the blanket bank guarantee, issued on 30 September 2008; the credit institutions that have issued debt or other liabilities under the extended eligible liabilities guarantee; the amount of liabilities that have been raised to date under the eligible liabilities guarantee; the maturities of same; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Property Valuations: Property Valuations (10 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports that commercial landlords are maintaining rents at unrealistically high levels, and even increasing them further, in order to flatter both the yield and value of the property in advance of the transfer of loans to the National Asset Management Agency where the property in question forms part of the collateral for such loans;...

Written Answers — Bank Closures: Bank Closures (10 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the financial difficulty and inconvenience caused for Irish based customers of a bank (details supplied) in the wake of the decision of the latter to cease its retail banking operations here; his views on whether undue pressure may be placed on these customers to pay off bank loans and credit card bills in full...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: It is relevant.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle should listen a little more and he might learn something.

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Joan Burton: We deserve the courtesy of a reply.

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Joan Burton: The 14,000 patients might think that Fianna Fáil has an obligation.

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Joan Burton: This week marks-----

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Joan Burton: This week marks the end of the first 1,000 days of this Government, a Government that is clearly degenerating into a dysfunctional shambles.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Yes, I have. I remind the Ceann Comhairle that there are fewer than 14% women in this House. The Ceann Comhairle is more than happy to recognise-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: ------the men in this House but not the women, for speaking purposes.

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Joan Burton: I will defend my right as a woman to speak-----

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Joan Burton: I will not be talked down to by the Ceann Comhairle. I will be recognised by the Ceann Comhairle in the same way as male colleagues are recognised.

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Joan Burton: As asked by my colleague, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, is the Ceann Comhairle's problem with women in general or just with women in the Labour Party?

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Joan Burton: I have waited patiently since 10.30 a.m.-----

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Joan Burton: I had my hand up so long I almost needed a prop under it to draw it to the Ceann Comhairle's attention.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: I wear the colour red nowadays so that when the Ceann Comhairle looks this way he might see me.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle appears to have-----