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Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister for Health and Children will not be in the House to discuss it on the Adjournment.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Professor Honohan agreed with us.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Is Deputy McGrath saying that the Minister for Finance lied to the House at the time of the bank guarantee?

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Not as much as Fianna Fáil did.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: He said the bank failed two out of the three tests.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: He said it was because of the Fianna Fáil toxic triangle with developers and bankers-----

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Is the Deputy saying the Government did not bring about what has happened at Anglo Irish Bank? He should come off it. Does he write fairy tales for young children?

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: No, you did them in the Galway tent.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Did they have a special dinner?

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: For what did they give Brian Cowen a special dinner?

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I wish to share time with Deputies Seán Sherlock and Arthur Morgan.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I want to return to the Honohan report in view of the outrageous way the Taoiseach, Fianna Fáil Ministers and a number of Fianna Fáil Deputies with supplied scripts have tried to abuse the report.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: One of you made a bad mistake in the script so you need to check it out. I will give you the advice later.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: It casts seriously bad reflections on their Minister.

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Professor Honohan enjoys an enviable and deserved reputation among his peers at home and abroad. That reputation was enhanced by the report he presented last week on the cause of Ireland's banking collapse and he is entitled to have his findings treated with respect and due consideration by everyone in this House. I was pleased when the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, chose...

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: The overhang of these losses weigh heavily on our country's capacity to source borrowings at reasonable cost. Yesterday the NTMA had another successful bond auction but at a price that must cause ripples of anxiety in the Department of Finance. Mr. Paul Krugman, in an article in The New York Times today, makes exactly the same point and compares our bond rates with those of Spain. The...

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. There are none so blind as those who refuse to read an official report in its entirety and want only to extract this or that paragraph they can twist and twist for their own purposes. It is most unfortunate that Ministers are unwilling to recognize the any flaws in the September 2008 guarantee. These flaws are honestly recognized by...

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: In the large print he reigned them in and then extended them. It was like saying, "Roll up, roll up property developers. You have your last six months, year, two years or three years". Mr. Regling, that very nice German man who is now, thankfully, in control of the stabilisation fund - I hope he thinks kindly of Ireland even though he was shocked by his experience - said to me after a...

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Do not look too closely. You might copy it. That is what you are worried about.

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (16 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the supports that are available to young persons, in particular young unemployed persons, to start their own businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25213/10]