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Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Could it be published before Christmas?

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: So the projected social welfare cuts may be implemented by 1 January and we may have a social welfare Bill guillotined in this House some time between 9 and 18 December.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: This is an important issue. It has never happened before that a social welfare Bill has been published within a week of a budget. Is this the Government agenda? Will the social welfare Bill be put through the House before Christmas so cutbacks the Government intends to implement come into operation on 1 January?

Order of Business (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: It has not been excluded.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Yesterday evening I raised an issue with the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Peter Power, who was taking the Bill in the absence of the Minister for Finance. I wish to raise that important issue again to give the Minister for Finance, who is in the House now, an opportunity to respond to it. One of the major difficulties of the operation of NAMA will result...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: It does. It arises in the context of the social and economic development of the estate. The social dimension requires that, where appropriate, estates are finished and that where people occupy residences they are not left at a substantial disadvantage, locked into what may be partly ghost estates for many years.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: I raise this because the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Power, was only starting to reply yesterday evening and I am conscious that the Minister for Finance was not here. I would not have raised it again were it not for that circumstance. The Minister is about to respond. How will NAMA deal with an incomplete estate or apartment block and will those residing in those developments be left...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: On a point of order, having been in this House many years I have been party to the type of vote we have seen on the Order of Business in the past. I have also seen Ministers subsequently on Committee or Report Stage-----

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: -----agreeing across the House to having time extended.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: If the Acting Chairman would let me conclude, I am simply asking the Minister, in the public interest and in the interest of the credibility of this House, to give some serious consideration to extending this debate by agreement beyond 8 p.m. this evening.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: We are doing a disservice to the general public in guillotining this legislation. The Minister knows this is not the way that this House should be run.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Yes and I am coming back to it. This legislation is too important to be guillotined.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: It is too important.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Or even an estate that is security for a loan where the developer has gone bust and various works such as landscaping and roads have not been completed, but much of the accommodation is occupied. To whom will the residents look to solve their problems in those circumstances?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: The local authority will not do that unless an estate has been properly completed.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: In some cases they have expired because of the time that has passed since they were taken out. In other cases local authorities are unwilling to enter a bond.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Guidelines will be needed, otherwise residents will be left in huge difficulty.

Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (10 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 443 of 16 September 2009 from the Health Service Executive has not yet been received by this Deputy; the action she will take to ensure that this reply is received. [40200/09]

Constitutional Amendments. (11 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the referenda he envisages taking place during the lifetime of the current Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35230/09]

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (12 Nov 2009)

Alan Shatter: Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she is taking to streamline the public procurement process for small business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40969/09]