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Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Alan Shatter: -----on their borrowings.

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Alan Shatter: They now find themselves-----

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Alan Shatter: -----with banks that will not release them from these arrangements and they are the people-----

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Alan Shatter: Many thousands of couples are particularly hit by the budget measures------

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Alan Shatter: -----this Government brought to this House-----

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Alan Shatter: -----last Tuesday.

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Alan Shatter: I will speak briefly, if I may, on that point.

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Alan Shatter: In advance of the publication of the legislation, will the Minister make available to this House information about the mechanisms that will be deployed to ensure taxpayers in this country are not ripped off by the arrangements implemented with the banks? In circumstances in which the banks are resistant to implementing these arrangements, what mechanisms will the Government use to implement...

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Alan Shatter: These are serious issues. I have been in this House-----

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Alan Shatter: As a Member of this House since the early 1980s, I have watched on two occasions how Fianna Fáil-led Governments have destroyed the economy of this country.

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Alan Shatter: We are entitled to answers to these questions.

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Alan Shatter: This House is-----

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Alan Shatter: I have had enough of this Government and its toxic-----

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Alan Shatter: We may all need some "happy" pills to keep going.

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Alan Shatter: In the context of legislation published after Easter, I am conscious on a human level that this will be a difficult Easter for many Ministers of State who are looking forward to losing their jobs. While the Government should never have appointed 20, and we do not need them, on a human level I wish them well.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Alan Shatter: It is my recollection that we got to the grossly unnecessary figure of 20 Ministers of State as a consequence of legislation enacted in this House to facilitate the Government to appoint that number of Ministers of State.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Alan Shatter: Does the Government intend to bring forward legislation as an urgent matter after the Easter break to reduce by statute the number of Ministers of State that can be appointed to the 15 announced? How rapidly will we see that legislation? If no such legislation is intended, is this merely a temporary little arrangement to seek public applause and is there a secret intention to re-appoint the...

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Alan Shatter: Will a Bill come before the House?

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Alan Shatter: The Government will retain the position where it is open to it to appoint 20 Ministers of State. This is a public relations exercise. If the Government were serious it would introduce the legislation.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Green shoots. We have been trying to find the Green Party's fingerprints on the budget and we have discovered them. It fully supports everything Fianna Fáil does.