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- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: We have not heard much from him these days.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: Deputy Burton would know much more than I would about being tough, but to be tough we must have the legislation and the regulations in place. Part of the problem we had over the years was that even though we had a lax regulator, we also had very lax regulations. The only way to enforce this is either to nationalise the institutions in question, or to become the de facto owner. The Minister...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: It might lead to higher interest rates.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: I note the use of the word "symbolic" by Deputy Burton. In that context, I hope she will not press the amendment and that it is merely a symbolic gesture aimed at trying to-----
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: In such circumstances, the net effect of the amendment would be shambolic. If one tries to tease out the exact meaning of what the Deputy is suggesting, she is trying to make provision for the micromanagement of a system. That is not to say that people on this side of the House and elsewhere would not agree with her assertion that there is a need for transparency. Deputy Burton's amendment...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: The Deputy should speak freely.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: On the way to Connemara I stayed in a tent but it was my own.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: If Deputy Burton were to amend it to read "quarterly", I might.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: Deputy Rabbitte quoted St. Augustine, saying let me be chaste but not yet. The actual quotation relates to chastity and continence. My St. Augustine is not that good but I know that he said that where a person makes a genuine effort to do something, what matters most is the fact he genuinely made the effort, not whether he succeeded. Deputy Rabbitte also made some remarks about the Green...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: Deputy Arthur Morgan does not realise how close we were to an election two weeks ago.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: The reason we did not have an election is because a good programme for Government was drawn up.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: I did so because the Minister said he would introduce his own amendment on the matter.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: Deputy Rabbitte missed my indirect quotation of St. Augustine. I have the direct quotation in front of me but I will not cite it. On matters religious, I would like to remind the House of the parable of the vineyard-----
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: -----where the vineyard workers were paid the equivalent of ducat or drachma to start work at 9 a.m., toil all day in the vineyard and they were happy enough with that. Those who were offered the same amount of money at a later stage to come in the evening and work for a few hours-----
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: It is very relevant. They were quite happy as well.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: In regard to this amendment, if NAMA decides in the interests of the State to divest itself of an asset at a profit, I argue it would be quite happy to do that. If an overseas investor makes a killing on the asset at a later stage when it appreciates further, so be it. We cannot crib over what NAMA should have done. Should NAMA hold on to every asset until the end of a ten-year period and...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: The gospel probably says that materialism is less important than the spiritual element, with which I would agree, but, unfortunately, we are stuck here materially-----
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: -----and we have to try to materially benefit the taxpayer. In that context-----
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: Hopefully, we will all be blessed at the end of this process, but at present the electorate are cursing successive Governments for what has happened. In terms of the motion-----
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Paul Gogarty: The Minister, Deputy Gormley, seems to possess trilocation capabilities in many instances such is the work he carries out, but I will not go into that.