Results 8,801-8,820 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: The Government proposal is for a commission of investigation, for which the Minister has set aside a budget of €1.8 million to be spent by the end of this year. That is a significant amount of money for an international expert who will come and tell us why the banks failed. That is important. The Government has accepted the extension of the terms of reference, as proposed by the Labour...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: No, this country is going to drown in inquiries, but that will not result in an extra euro of credit getting out to businesses in the country that are hanging on by their fingernails and letting employees go. This inquiry will take into account the actions of banks that have, clearly, lied to NAMA. The Government accepted those lies uncritically and told us the Irish banks were fine because...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: It would be a disaster if the Taoiseach opened it.

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: The Labour Party moved an amendment to extend the terms of reference to include the Government and the Department of Finance. Unfortunately, the Ceann Comhairle ruled our amendment out of order. Down the road, the Minister and Fianna Fáil will come to regret that, for reasons of political expediency, they have sought to exclude from the commission of inquiry's terms the roles of the...

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: That is very sensible, otherwise it is Wallender-like - I assume the Minister is aware of the Swedish detective, Wallander, and we are having someone now from Finland. This Finnish Wallander, would have to approach it in an opposite direction from the banks, and work back from the period starting 29 September, into the banks, the Central Bank and the Regulator. I do not know whether Mr....

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: Yes, it would. There is also a corpse involved in this, that of the economy and the Celtic tiger with 420,000 people out of work.

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: We hope so.

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: The most extraordinary aspect of the revised NAMA business plan is the board's admission of a deterioration in its original estimates with losses of €5 billion now predicted. The House has got so used to talking in billions that the value of money has lost its meaning. The outcome, however, of these decisions has left people with an extraordinary debt overhang. While I never contested...

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: The problem is we are taking on the contingent liability that goes with these derivatives. They are interest-rate swaps – the very products that did for Lehman Brothers and many other financial institutions. Economic governance is so poor in this country that this revised business plan does not even set out the likely level of the liability that may arise. When the State guarantee was...

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: The commission's report must come directly to the House.

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: My amendment to the motion covered everything.

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: The amendments I gave the Minister on Monday. They covered everything.

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: On a point of information, would the Minister also write to Mr. Nyberg informing him of that decision, so that as he sets about his job-----

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: That is a good suggestion and should be explored.

Banking Sector Crisis: Motions (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: Will the report go to the Minister or come to the Dáil?

Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: I am grateful to Deputy Durkan for being so timely.

Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: I thought that.

Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: Like other Deputies, I have been raising this issue for the last seven years. Given that my constituency of Dublin West has one of the highest concentrations of management companies in the country, it is an enormous issue. Despite this, we do not even have an audit of all of the housing units - apartments and ordinary houses - that are under the control of management companies. However, I...

Water and Sewerage Schemes (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 11: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Heritage and Local Government the action that has been taken as a result of report by Joint Committee on Environment regarding environmental pollution and danger to drinking water caused domestic sewage from septic tanks other effluent treatment systems; if he will respond committee's call for effective standards, joined up regulation,...

Written Answers — House Prices: House Prices (8 Jul 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 18: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made on the setting up of a national house price database; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30722/10]