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Order of Business (5 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: What is in it for Allied Irish Bank and for Anglo Irish Bank? It is a reasonable question.

Order of Business (5 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: The statement also anticipated that Ireland would possibly return to the bond markets in January. Is it possible to return to the bond markets -----

Order of Business (5 Oct 2010)

Joan Burton: -----before this legislation is introduced?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: Does Deputy Kenny wish to contribute?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: Does Deputy Kenny wish to do Order of Business?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: In regard to this morning's events, I believe the Government gambled a banking strategy which it has now lost. The problem is that the taxpayer has paid-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: I want to ask the Taoiseach a number of specifics about the material that has been put up on various Government press and agency sites-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: Sorry, the country is going down the tubes.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: It is akin to the Titanic driving into the iceberg. Will the Ceann Comhairle help to stop it?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: Has the Taoiseach or his Government had discussions with the European Commission specifically in regard to the raised figure of the deficit which the Minister for Finance stated may possibly reach 32%? Will the Taoiseach advise or arrange to advise the House or the Opposition on how the European Commission and other European agencies propose to treat with that incredible level of deficit...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: -----that there will be no negotiation in regard to those tranches of debt?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: There is also a reference-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: These are major Government statements, not about future programmes of Government but in regard to how the country manages to survive this.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: I will make my final point in two sentences.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: I wish to ask the Taoiseach a question about the resolution mechanism referred to at the end of the statement from the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: The resolution mechanism mentioned in the statement is promised legislation. It is the most important legislation that we never got since the beginning of our trouble with the banks. May I explain that to the Ceann Comhairle?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: Now that the country is in mortal peril, perhaps the Taoiseach will say if he has given consideration, as previously requested by me of the Minister for Finance, to the situation that existed in England prior to the general election, namely, that the Fine Gael spokesperson on finance and I, as spokesperson on finance for the Labour Party, along with other spokespersons on finance, would have...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: It is obvious that the Government is nearing the end of its life and that there are going to be changes. We must be in a position to take up the cudgel-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: This has nothing to do with-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Joan Burton: A Cheann Comhairle-----