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- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware of the considerable stress experienced by young home purchasers and people intending to buy a home? Is he aware that the European Central Bank has indicated it intends to allow interest rates to rise on a quarterly basis by as much as 0.25%, which would mean an increase of 0.5% for each six months in the coming year? Does he agree that the impact of that on most young...
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: On what planet is the Minister living? He talks about low inflation rates when house prices have risen by an astonishing amount â far in excess of building cost inflation â because there is incredible profiteering in land values and house prices by the construction sector. I remind the Minister of what Mr. Trichet said last week in reply to a query from a colleague of the Minister's, Eoin...
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: That was a couple of years ago. House prices are now rising at a fabulous rate.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: I am talking about now and the future.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: The Minister is like OisÃn, always looking back at TÃr na nÃg.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: We want to live now and in the future.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: The Minister is like OisÃn and Niamhââ
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister talk about the future for our young people?
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: That was the legacy of the Government under Albert Reynolds.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: In those days nurses could afford a house which they now cannot.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: People have 40 year mortgages.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: The Minister has not dealt with the objective facts. There has been a huge rise in prices.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: I am not losing the argument. The Minister is not answering the argument.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: The Minister is not answering the argument.
- Interest Rates. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: The Minister did not answer any of them.
- Industrial Disputes. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance the implications for the Governments general programme of decentralisation, particularly in relation to State bodies in view of the recent agreement reached between FÃS and its employees at the Labour Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24946/06]
- Industrial Disputes. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: With regard to another decentralisation issue, a statement made by the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, when he was on safari in Africa, was quoted in The Irish Times. The report stated there was "legal doubt surrounding the status of contracted specialists". The Minister of State added: "We are waiting in the train station at Heuston en route for Limerick because until that legal...
- Industrial Disputes. (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: I referred to a direct quote from the Minister of State.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 63: In page 30, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: 21.â(1) In the case of an accused person tried on indictment for an offence, who has been acquitted, where at any time following such acquittal the Director of Public Prosecutions comes into possession of evidence which demonstrates that interference with the jury has occurred, he or she may apply to the...
- Written Answers — Tax Compliance: Tax Compliance (28 Jun 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the recent settlement made between the Revenue Commissioners and property developers (details supplied) reportedly to the sum of â¬25 million; if further investigations of the company will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24938/06]