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Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: It is my view that this House was misled when the nationalisation Bill came before it——

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: ——because the Taoiseach was privy to information that Members of this House should have been given.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: He has given us two contradictory versions of events. Within one hour this morning he said two things which are mutually inconsistent.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Taoiseach should clarify which is true. It is one or the other.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: Both are mutually exclusive.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: If we have that debate, how can we rely on anything the Taoiseach tells us? That is the key issue. There might be more about Anglo Irish Bank than he is prepared to tell the House.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: The great difficulty in addressing an issue such as this in five minutes is there is much one wants to say that one will not get an opportunity to say.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: As everyone knows we are confronted by an unprecedented economic and banking crisis. It affects every walk of life, every person in this country, and there are many who currently believe themselves to be immune who will discover as we go through the devastating effect of what is happening during 2009 that it is knocking on their front door and back door, and impacting on them, their family...

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: A Minister who ran a Bill on nationalisation of a particular bank through this House who failed to read a crucial part of a report prepared on that bank would not have been tolerated to remain in office for 24 hours. In Japan, he would have fallen on his sword. In Westminster, he would have departed the scene. In Ireland, however, no matter how incompetent one is, he or she toughs it out....

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: I will conclude on this. The general public finds it sickening that those responsible for the position in which we find ourselves are the recipients of golden handshakes and large salaries that, under the Government's proposal, will continue.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: I do not care if someone on €1 million gets a 33% reduction. No one in our banking system, no matter what executive post he or she holds, should receive a salary in excess of that received by a Minister.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: The time has come for them to put their hands up and acknowledge their responsibility, and move themselves away from the greed and hubris which has marked our banking system in recent years.

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: There was no independent advice.

Written Answers — Smarter Travel Policy: Smarter Travel Policy (17 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding provided to An Taisce in respect of the green schools travel module for each year since inception; the amount requested for each such year; his views on the future of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6007/09]

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: It has more to do with confidence.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: What did the Government know in July?

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: Tell us who are the ten musketeers.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: And how?

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)

Alan Shatter: Hear, hear.