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

Seán Barrett: I do not wish to go over the ground already covered by my colleagues other than to point out that the Minister's amendment should be more prescriptive, in line with what Fine Gael is trying to achieve in this regard. It is unlikely that our amendments will be accepted given the numbers in the House but some slight amendments to the Minister's amendment could be more effective. Amendment No....

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

Seán Barrett: I also ask the Minister to insert "will" instead of "may" because it is more definite. The Minister should also provide that such guidelines will be published and laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas. That is important from the point of view of giving the Oireachtas an opportunity to discuss such guidelines from time to time. As colleagues have pointed out, in the very near future the...

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

Seán Barrett: It is possible. Can the Whips not agree to do that?

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: Without wanting to interfere in any way with the workings of any tribunal, would the Taoiseach agree that, as this House set up the tribunals, it should be possible to ask either the Moriarty or Mahon tribunal, instead of waiting for a final report on all modules, that the very minimum that should happen is for the results of the inquiry into individual modules be published as they are...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: What about those people whose names have been dragged into things?

Tribunals of Inquiry. (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: So will mine but that is my point.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: Why does the Minister think the Committee of Public Accounts has a statutory basis? If it has a statutory basis, why can a committee as important as this, overseeing the expenditure of €54 billion not have a statutory basis? This is typical Department of Finance stuff. During all the years I have been in here, the Department of Finance has wanted to hold power in its hands at all times....

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: The Deputy has been bought.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: It is obvious.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: There is no danger of the Green Party being in government again. Deputy Gogarty can be sure of that.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: The Greens have been bought through and through.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: Deputy Gogarty should withdraw that remark.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: It needs a statutory basis.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: It took five months after the last election to establish the committees.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: Deputy Gogarty should go back to playing with his computer.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: Separate them.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: They are breeding like rabbits.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: It is beginning to make more sense to me now why the Minister refused to accept Deputy Bruton's amendment on putting the Oireachtas committee on a statutory basis. Part of the proposal put forward was to review the shareholder's agreement undertaken by the master special purpose vehicle. That confirms my suspicions that something tricky is going on. I do not know whether the Minister has...

Nursing Home Charges. (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action, legislative or other, she will take to prevent the €190 per bed annual Health Information and Quality Authority licensing and registration fee from being passed on to nursing home residents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39319/09]

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)

Seán Barrett: Section 2 states that the purpose of the legislation is to protect the interests of taxpayers, facilitate restructuring of credit institutions, restore confidence in the banking sector and facilitate the availability of credit in the economy. These are all good aspirations. As Deputies Bruton and O'Donnell stated, those of us on this side of the House do not agree with the process the...