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- Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: It would be a future levy.
- Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: So the Government is not making provision for it today but it is envisaging the possibilityââ
- Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (30 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I have finished my broad remarks. We accept the need to introduce this measure but we also want to see that there is very robust protection. We want to see that this new access to money is managed in such a way that the taxpayer is protected to the maximum amount, which is a vital element on which we must get reassurance. It will not be enough for the Minister to state he is taking...
- Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the level of deposit protection for savers in Irish financial institutions. [31447/08]
- Fiscal Policy. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Finance his latest assessment of the 2008 year end level for the numbers out of work, the shortfall in tax revenue and the Exchequer deficit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31744/08]
- Fiscal Policy. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: In light of today's figures from the CSO, how does it feel to be the first Minister for Finance in 25 years to have to report a recession to the people? Does the Minister still maintain that the collapse we are experiencing in Ireland has to do with international events when the evidence from the CSO today categorically shows that the fall is far more acute in Ireland than in any other...
- Fiscal Policy. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I agree with the Minister there are difficult external conditions. However, does he suggest that Ireland's falling share in export markets does not have anything to do with what is happening here? Is he trying to say our falling competitiveness does not have to do with what has happened here? Is he trying to say the fact inflation in Ireland was running at almost twice what it was running...
- Fiscal Policy. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Did the Minister look at the CSO figures on exports today? They are not growing.
- Fiscal Policy. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The CSO figures do not show that and no independent commentator would agree on that.
- Fiscal Policy. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Government has crowded out our exporters and crowded out people trying to make a living.
- Financial Sector. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the banks or the Central Bank and the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority regarding the robustness of the Irish financial sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31746/08]
- Financial Sector. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I accept the Minister's expression of thanks for my support. I asked his predecessor for this 11 months ago so it is a little tardy in arriving. Is the Minister confident he has all the necessary legal means to deal with an emergency such as the need for consolidation, as has been required in other jurisdictions, and that there would be no legal impediments such as regulations relating to...
- Financial Sector. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Does the Minister agree it would be a good idea to publish a stability report to give us confidence? Does he agree it would be worthwhile to meet the banks to protect loan availability to vital areas of the economy in this period?
- Fiscal Policy. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Minister's clippings are falling down.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: Will the Minister publish cost-benefit analyses on the projects selected to proceed so that we can have confidence that robust projects are being selected? Will the cost-benefit analysis include some form of independent auditing to ensure we do not end up with the type of rose-tinted analysis often produced by parent Departments and will we have an opportunity to debate these in the House?...
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: That is not what I asked the Minister. I want protection from the Chair to ensure the questions I ask are answered.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I asked if a cost-benefit analysis will be undertaken and if it will be published. It is only then that I will be interested in a debate. I do not want a free rolling debate with backbenchers being rolled in to read out speeches off a word processor.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Minister stated on radio that he is open to publishing them, yet he will not say so in the House.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: I am not aware of that at all, although I would like to believe it.
- National Development Plan. (25 Sep 2008)
Richard Bruton: The Minister is reneging on what he said on radio, namely, that he is open to publishing these reports. He is foot stepping the issue.