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Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Many of the amendments are of substantial importance. The one thing we have discovered with this legislation as we have gone through from Second Stage to Committee Stage to Report Stage is that the Government has recognised the need for substantial amendments.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: The point I make, Sir, is that in principle this party has no objection to us sitting late, but I oppose and Fine Gael opposes, the Order of Business in full because the debate on Report Stage of the National Asset Management Agency Bill should be open ended. It should not be guillotined. This is one of the most important financial measures-----

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: -----to come before the Oireachtas since the foundation of the State.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: It creates major problems for the future financial stability of the State and the banking sector.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: In those circumstances, we oppose the Order of Business.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: For the reason I gave-----

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: I will not unduly delay the House. For the reasons I gave previously, Sir, that this is a measure of fundamental importance to the future financial stability of the State, this House should have the opportunity to fully consider and debate it. It is a measure that, as we have gone through from Second Stage to Report Stage, has resulted in substantial amendments being brought forward, even...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: If need be, Members on this side of the House are quite prepared to sit into the small hours of the morning. We did so this day last week and, as a consequence of that discussion, the Minister, who was denying the need to make amendments on a number of issues, including with regard to special purpose vehicles, has now agreed that there is a need to address some of the issues raised on that...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: This House is not a rubber stamp for the Government. We are elected to this House to take responsibility by the electorate. The Government is guillotining a measure that is seriously defective. It has had to be amended on every Stage of its passage.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: On promised legislation and in particular the forthcoming budget and promised finance and social welfare Bills that will follow, does the Tánaiste agree that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, had an unusual hang-dog expression on his face on the televised portion of the press conference of the Secretary General of the OECD, who launched its report on Ireland yesterday? Does...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: I am coming to it. Will the Tánaiste acknowledge that her Government is not only surrendering the independence of this Republic to outside agencies like the OECD, but has abdicated leadership to them so that when, and if, hard measures are introduced in the forthcoming budget, instead of accepting responsibility for what it is doing, it will blame agencies and bodies outside this State?...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: My questions relate to forthcoming legislation. We are entitled to know when the legislation will be published. Will it be published in January or February and when can we expect that the predicted harsh measures that the OECD have told the Government this State requires will be implemented? I will conclude by asking the Tánaiste-----

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: ------if she will explain to the House why the job creation task force has met only once in nine months in circumstances in which we have 420,000 unemployed people in this State? Will that task force submit a report to this House for debate?

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Government ignored its warnings in 2005 and 2006.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Why is it reported that the task force met only once?

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Those involved see each other every day.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: On promised legislation, there was one thing the Tánaiste said in reply to me that should be clarified. In the context of the promised social welfare Bill that will emerge from the budget, that Bill is usually not published until the following February. Is the Tánaiste indicating to the House that there is a possibility the Bill will be published immediately after the budget and...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: That is different.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: What about the social welfare Bill? Also, it is scandalous that the HSE, the primary body involved in child protection in the country, is continuing to fail to comply with the Government's child protection guidelines. It would not be tolerated in any other country in the European Union.