Results 19,061-19,080 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: We did it before.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: However, they are reverting back to form again. They did nothing.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: We did not.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is right.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Bring them in.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is right about that.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: If Fianna Fáil told the Green Party that, I would be worried.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: John Steinbeck wrote quite a bit about hardship as well. The wasteland was described by him very clearly in the Grapes of Wrath. It behoves us all, as we are in a poetic mood, to read all that he wrote about how those circumstances came about. The one lesson to be learned from that, as the Acting Chairman and I well know, is that nothing has changed. That is the sad part of it....
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That is shifting sands.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: It is not history. If one starts at the beginning one does not have to have shifting sands.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: Tell that to the person who is hungry and out of work.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That is what we are doing now. We are trading in loans.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: It is like Dublin and Kerry all over again.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That is actually codding the people. It is pretending that there is another way as some of the newspapers have been suggesting.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: That is what Fianna Fáil said back in 1987.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: It is only when one tries to justify it that it becomes baseless.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: We will not go there.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: We did not.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy can talk all he wants about his own party but do not blame us.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Bernard Durkan: The taxpayer is going to fill this big hole over a ten-year period.