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Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I am relieved to hear that.

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister of State realise how offensive and devastating his remarks and response are? He is defensive of his and the Government's position, but he ought to have regard to the people and families involved in adoption - the individual person, birth parents, birth siblings, with whom adopted children could build up a good relationship if they could make contact with them, and their...

Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I can provide the Minister of State with details of where the information has not been provided.

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about three matters. I refer to a debate on the continuing banking crisis, in particular, the Taoiseach's confirmation that he anticipates a further €8 billion going into Anglo Irish Bank. Earlier this week I asked the Taoiseach whether the Government would provide, between now and the recess, time for a debate on the position regarding the banks, particularly...

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: -----the position of subcontractors. Does the Government propose to support the Private Members' Bill before the Seanad or does it propose to introduce its own legislation? On a related matter concerning the property bust, the situation-----

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I will be very brief. I refer to the situation in respect of people in management companies. For many of those in management company situations or in estates that are only partially completed, a coterie of people who, because they cannot pay are not paying the management fees. Management companies are in an extraordinary mess. I raised this-----

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I have raised this on a number of occasions.

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I shall finish now.

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: I would have finished in any case. The problem is that by the end of this year there will be another dimension to the entire area of property problems in the economy that relate to the lack of legislation and the non-provision for management companies. In constituencies such as mine, there are tens of thousands of people in managed estates and-----

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: -----there is no legislation. Will the Taoiseach say whether his Government proposes to deal with the problems of subcontractors and whether he proposes to legislate on this? When will the management company legislation be concluded?

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: What is the timeframe?

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Is there a timeframe on the subcontractors legislation? With regard to the debate on Anglo Irish Bank-----

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: -----will the scoping inquiry include the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank and matters up to that point? The Regling and Watson report, along with the Honohan report, are merely scoping inquiries.

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: They are limited and do not go beyond the bank guarantee. The inquiry will be of very little use if it does not go into all the events around the bank guarantee and its aftermath.

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: It should include events up to the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank. Is the Taoiseach proposing to keep the same timeframe in the inquiry?

Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Will it be extended to include all events?

Written Answers — Energy Saving Schemes: Energy Saving Schemes (1 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the numbers on waiting lists for the home energy saving scheme and the warmer homes scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23047/10]

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (1 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will comment on the development of a smart grid here; the position regarding the programme for Government 2007 commitment to select a smart town test site to test the new smart grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23046/10]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (1 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance the deadline for implementation of the Consumer Credit Directive; if and when implementing legislation is foreseen; his plans to apply a differentiated regime to credit unions, the possibility for which is foreseen in the directive; the consultations that have taken place with the credit union movement in this regard; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (1 Jun 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance the average delay in commencing investigations by the Financial Ombudsman's Office; the number and proportion of cases in which the delay in commencing an investigation is more than 12 weeks and more than 16 weeks; the reason for these delays; the steps being taken to rectify this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22876/10]