Results 24,041-24,060 of 26,148 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Well done. I thank Deputy Perry for his contribution, which encapsulated the essence of our motion, and I thank all other contributors from Fine Gael and elsewhere in the House. The reason we tabled this motion is simple. Two excellent reports have been published but, as the Minister of State mentioned earlier, they are scoping reports. They are not conclusive. Within these scoping...
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the equivalent of three times the budget of the Department of Education and Skills. The money is down the toilet - it is gone. It would have cost â¬2.5 billion to set up a good bank, as we proposed. The only difference is that we wanted professional investors to take their share of the pain. What has happened here? The taxpayer is taking it. Services for children, the elderly...
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----and I hope that when Deputies across the House consider it, they will agree that in the interests of fairness and completeness, and as a House that represents all people, we should ensure the commission of investigation will get to the truth of what happened, so that we can learn lessons and establish controls to make sure it never happens again. They will say that in the interests of...
- Written Answers — School Libraries: School Libraries (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans regarding the renewal of contracts for junior certificate school programme librarians under the demonstration library project for the 2010/2011 academic year and subsequent years; if the contract will be renewed for the JCSP librarian at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick and that the programme...
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Hear, hear.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: This was far short of a sheep scheme.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Only sketchy records.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Not a tribunal.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: More from Mr. Watson and Herr Regling than Professor Honohan.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: Quite the contrary.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: And in the Government.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: I would not be overly happy with that.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: The following budget was a different matter.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: In the Regling report but not the Honohan report.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, he does not.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: That was only for financial regulation, not for macro regulation.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: It should be.
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: On a quick point of order-----
- Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have gone to the bronze medal now.