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Financial Services Sector. (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: The financial regulation legislation is being incorporated in the context of the Central Bank reforms that will take place. The need to review fundamentally our whole financial regulatory structure arose in the aftermath of the financial crisis, which began to emerge in autumn 2008 and came to a very serious turn this autumn. It is important to recognise - and I am sure the Deputy does -...

Financial Services Sector. (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: The clearing house group is a technical group of people from various Departments as well as the Revenue Commissioners and the Stock Exchange, which identifies whether there are operational issues arising that need to be addressed. It has met for that purpose on a number of occasions this year. It also provides an informal opportunity to determine whether other opportunities might be...

Financial Services Sector. (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: While I know Mr. Barnier, we have not as yet have had discussions with him. He has not as yet been appointed Commissioner. He has been nominated for the position and will not be in situ , probably, until February next year, when all the various hearings have been completed. I am sure he will be successful since he is a former Commissioner, as well as a former Minister for Agriculture in...

Financial Services Sector. (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: While some jobs have been lost in this sector because of the overall environment, the IFSC has withstood the worst aspects of the financial crisis creditably well. Significant numbers of people are still employed there in well-remunerated jobs. At individual company level, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland are supporting an increasing number of multinational and indigenous financial...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: I have been very clear on this matter. The State's job is to ensure everybody is equal before the law and that applies to institutions and individuals. The State must also ensure that best practice in this entire area will be promoted in the future. From this and previous reports, we have confirmation that there was an horrific deficit of accountability and these matters were not handled...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: Deputy Kenny asked about the Department's position on what happened. It is a matter of regret that the Holy See was not in a position to provide a substantive response to inquiries from the commission of investigation of the Dublin Archdiocese. It is important to be clear as to how and why this occurred. The commission of investigation wrote to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: Regarding the first part of the question raised by Deputy Gilmore, I was simply setting out the position that these matters are dealt with in that way. A diplomatic note was sent to the Murphy commission but it was not followed up thereafter, which is unfortunate. Had the Department of Foreign Affairs or another Department been asked to pursue the issue, perhaps a solution to the problem...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: I made the point to the Deputy that while the patron has overall responsibility for the ethos of the school, the implementation of child protection guidelines are primarily the responsibility of the board of management of each school. The Education Act 1998 makes no provision for the removal of a patron from a school. The Department of Education and Science has issued guidelines on child...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: -----in terms of the child protection policies which apply in our schools. This issue has been raised in the context of the Murphy report. There is a wider policy context which I agree needs to be addressed and can be addressed by consultation, which is ongoing. On the Murphy report, the Minister of State, Deputy Andrews, has made it clear that we await the HSE audit in respect of the...

Requests to move Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: On a point of order, for the information of the Deputy, a correction was issued by the Irish Independent the following day because the quote attributed to me had no foundation whatever. Perhaps the Deputy would apologise to me in response.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: It is proposed to take No. 11, motion re leave to introduce Supplementary Estimate [Vote 41]; No. 12, motion re referral of Supplementary Estimate [Vote 41] to select committee; No. 13, motion re referral to select committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the accession by Ireland to the terms of the Agreement for co-operation in dealing with Pollution of the North Sea by Oil and...

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: The Deputy is trying to "haddock" every way now.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: The business has been ordered for tomorrow, as has been explained. The Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, which needs to be enacted before the end of this session, is important in terms of inward investment. All I can do is refer the matter to the Whips to see if there is a possibility of rescheduling tomorrow's business. If it is possible to get some commitment on the Companies...

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: I will ask the Whips.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: He was not referring to anyone in the party.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: No, he was not referring to anyone in the party.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: The Deputy should keep an eye on his own crowd.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: I must check up on the matter with the relevant Minister, and check precedent as well.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: As the Deputy knows, discussions are continuing with the public service unions. That engagement is continuing this evening, so it would not be helpful for me to say publicly where we are at the moment, other than that there is an engagement taking place. Work will continue to see if we can find a resolution to the issue, which is sufficient to meet the requirements of the situation. A day...

Order of Business (1 Dec 2009)

Brian Cowen: I understand that the Bill in question is to be published in this session.