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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Boyle should remain in the House and listen.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Exactly.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We need detail.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It does not sound like there is an economic crisis.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That should have been done in the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The difficulty with the budget is that it does not provide solutions in respect of the major problems that will have a critical effect on the future of this country. The position with regard to waste has not been reformed and a job stimulus package has not been provided. A paltry 1,400 places will be provided on enterprise allowance schemes. What effect will this have on an economy that is...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Taxpayers are bailing out the banks. In that context, I am extremely concerned with regard to the proposal to establish a national asset management agency. Why should we be forced to pay for speculators' debts and take on assets that no one wants to buy on the open market? We need school buildings and we need land.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: However, the chances are that the land——

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——that no one wants to buy on the open market is not situated in the right place. I also call for——

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ——a debate on the banks.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: And the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not if one is on a fixed mortgage.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Let the Minister for Finance intervene with the banks. We are bailing them out.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am sick of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They fixed rates at 5% to 6%.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That was not his point.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The country is falling apart.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It was 1994 to 1997.