Results 31,321-31,340 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Banks Recapitalisation (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for his reply. At least he has acknowledged that it was only in September that he discussed with his officials the matter of how the interest would be dealt with. This country is facing an incredibly difficult future as a result of the millstone of â¬31 billion in promissory notes relating to Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide that has been placed around our necks.
- Banks Recapitalisation (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister agree it is the interest relating to the promissory notes which has completely distorted the position and which is largely responsible for the increase in the savings - from â¬7.5 billion to â¬15 billion - that will be required in the next four years? Who provided the Minister with advice on the promissory note system prior to Easter? Why did he come before the House on...
- Banks Recapitalisation (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: I find that outrageous.
- Banks Recapitalisation (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister should just multiply â¬1.5 billion by six to get the relevant figure.
- Banks Recapitalisation (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister is replying to a different question.
- Banks Recapitalisation (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister give us a schedule off the make-up of the â¬15 billion?
- Fiscal Policy (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the terms and conditions of the European Financial Stability Facility; the rate of interest he would expect to be charged to a eurozone Member State participating in the EFSF, at what maturity and on what terms and conditions; the maximum term of borrowing under the terms of the EFSF; to set out the extent of the contacts to...
- Fiscal Policy (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: Did the Minister not find it depressing or shameful that on Monday evening he was on national television giving a press conference in his Department with Commissioner Rehn? Did he not find it depressing and humiliating for us as a country that the Opposition had to troop in yesterday to meet the very polite Commissioner Rehn? It was an indication that our sovereignty as a country has, in...
- Fiscal Policy (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: What about the Minister's officials?
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: That is a nice patronising reply.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: This issue concerns elderly women. It is a pity it is not about bankers.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach has known about this for two years.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: It concerns a small group of very elderly people.
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: Ollie Rehn got the head.
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: Either details or generalities.
- Reform of Structures of Government: Motion (9 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Howlin, on putting together what is a highly ambitious but realistic programme of reform. Ireland faces a number of crises. Clearly, it has an appalling banking crisis in which the losses in the banks have been socialised whereas in the preceding years, all the profits in the banks were privatised. Ireland has a crisis with regard to employment and its...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: It is spending more on the banks.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: It is spending the money on the banks.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: What about the kitchen cabinet?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)
Joan Burton: What is date for that?