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Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach give an undertaking that the report will be debated in the House or in the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service? Will he give an undertaking that it will not be sat on as has happened with other inquiry reports such as that on the Dublin Docklands Development Authority? I got a briefing from the Department of Finance on Thursday about the bilateral...

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: It is a major issue.

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Is the special purpose vehicle a bilateral or joint arrangement for each of the eurozone countries?

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: From the information released, it is clear there is no guarantee for the €1.3 billion for the Greek bilateral arrangement. We are quite within our rights to ask-----

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: -----about the special purpose vehicle. Is it a bilateral club of countries, each of which is putting in its designated amounts, or is it an overall eurozone-European Central Bank arrangement?

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: This is fundamental to the Lisbon treaty and is a perfectly in order question of the Taoiseach.

Order of Business. (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: We have all these people telling us about EU solidarity. We are not such a little country that we are not entitled to some explanation.

Proposed Legislation (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation when he plans to introduce the promised legislation to provide for the merger of the National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19174/10]

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: The same old friends of Fianna Fáil.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: No, but the new directors -----

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Everyone is aware that Fianna Fáil has made four Fianna Fáil appointees.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Yes, Fianna Fáil ones. We know that.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: They are party political, that is part of it.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: What about Government hearings, like in the United States? What would be wrong with hearings?

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: It is able to clean up its banks much faster than us.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: That is Charlie McCreevy's line of argument, the Government's ex-Commissioner. That was his principal argument.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister is just crediting this to Fianna Fáil.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: There is one of them in Kildare also.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2010)

Joan Burton: He was a lobbyist for no regulation.

Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Similarly, we have no difficulty with this Bill being taken today. However, it is astonishing that the Minister or some senior official forgot to make provision for a licensing arrangement for the national conference centre, which would mean it could not hold late night functions and so forth. I believe we are owed an explanation given that a vast amount of justice and finance legislation...