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Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: Where was the Taoiseach in March 2008?

Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: What about the NTMA?

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: I raised this matter yesterday. The Taoiseach needs to tell us whether the Minister for Finance will be here for this debate at the outset as he is the person in negotiation with both the eurozone and ECOFIN Ministers today. It would be very odd to have this further extension of the guarantee without the Minister of Finance being present and actively listening to the all of the debate. I...

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach give an undertaking to the House now that the Minister for Finance will be present for the debate? If the Minister for Finance is unable to be here for the debate this afternoon, will the Taoiseach defer it until this evening, tomorrow or whenever he can be present? I suggest also that the time allowed for this debate, which deals with an important matter, be extended....

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: That does not become the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: On the same matter, the Minister for Finance advised us some months ago that the Central Bank (No. 2) Bill, dealing with a number of reforms in regard to banking and regulation, would be brought before the House quite soon. In fact, we expected it to have been produced about a month ago. The Minister responded to me that he was considering the introduction of a bank resolution mechanism...

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: -----and two and a quarter years after the guarantee, we have no resolution in regard to any of those six institutions.

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: With respect, the Minister for Finance has already indicated an intention on his part as a member of the Government to have a bank resolution mechanism.

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: I am asking the Taoiseach when the bank resolution mechanism is proposed. Second, in regard to the team from the ECB, the IMF and the Commission which is visiting Dublin, under what legislation are the Irish negotiators-----

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, under what powers-----

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: -----are the Secretary General of the Department of Finance, the Governor of the Central Bank and the regulator-----

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: This is a serious constitutional issue.

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: I want to know under what powers they are negotiating on behalf of Ireland. The Taoiseach said the Government has not decided-----

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: -----a negotiating position but he has selected negotiators.

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach give us a briefing on that?

Order of Business (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: Sorry, can I hear about the bank resolution mechanism, which is part one of getting us out of our troubles? We are trying to be positive.

Bank Guarantee Scheme: Motion (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the Government's motion before the House is in effect to extend the original bank guarantee scheme in a modified way until the end of December 2011. That bank guarantee applied to six banking institutions, two of which, Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society, were beyond help. Two very big banks, Bank of Ireland and AIB, are important to the functioning of...

Bank Guarantee Scheme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: Latvia is not in South America. The IMF was there a couple of years ago.

Bank Guarantee Scheme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: When did the Minister of State last go canvassing?

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (17 Nov 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to recent data from the Health Research Board pointing to an increase in heroin use, particularly in centres outside of Dublin; the steps he is taking to control the spread of heroin in these areas; if he is satisfied that the gardaí have sufficient resources to deal with the problem; and if he will...