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Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: He suggested that there would be further cuts this year.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Did the Department get clarification from him? That is what he is quoted as saying.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: No, it was not.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: The Government's biggest spend last year was on Anglo Irish Bank.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Some 400,000 people are unemployed.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: You must be joking.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister arguing that having more than 400,000 people unemployed is a success?

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Do not involve us in a war.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: If we are moving amendments, I have several to discuss.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Is the Acting Chairman taking some general comments about the amendments?

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: May I comment briefly on my amendments?

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: My amendments are generally designed to ensure we have more information, on an ongoing basis, in regard to this loan. Like Deputy O'Donnell, I propose that the information be laid before the Dáil on a quarterly basis. I draw the Minister's attention in particular to my amendment No. 2 which provides that the loan would be subject to the freedom of information regime. One of the greatest...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: It closed it down.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: I understood Goldman Sachs, the Minister's advisers, helped Greece with the figures.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: The company pops up as Fianna Fáil advisers. It assisted Greece in its misrepresentations.

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: I wish to raise two issues. The first concerns a matter I have raised with the Taoiseach a number of times because it is very important for many young people who bought apartments and who now are paying management fees that are 1% to 2% of the capital value-----

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Yes, absolutely. The aforementioned management fees are 1% to 2% of the capital value of the apartment in question. In my constituency, on an apartment that is worth €200,000 at present, the management fee varies-----

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: -----from €1,400 to €2,400. When the Taoiseach responds in respect of-----

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: Sorry, while the Taoiseach has responded on this issue previously, people's water and lights have been or are being cut off and a complete mess obtains.

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Joan Burton: When is this legislation-----