Results 32,401-32,420 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Personal Debt (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Perhaps it can be extended to two years.

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The figure mentioned - €3.538 billion - is quite a small amount of transfers, in the context of the draft business plan the Minister presented to the Dáil at the time of the NAMA legislation. According to the Minister's plan, more than half of all the loans should have been dealt with by now, as we come into May. However, just a tiny proportion of them have been dealt with. What is the...

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: That was the Minister's plan.

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: It was off the rails.

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister brought it in here.

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister presented it to the House as his plan.

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister disowning NAMA now?

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: June?

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister supply the information to us?

National Asset Management Agency. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Can the Minister undertake to supply to us in writing, as soon as possible, with the breakdown of the transfers which have taken place for each of the covered institutions, the amount of the discount to date and the total amounts? Everybody in the country is stunned by what has happened regarding Irish Nationwide, Mr. Fingleton's institution. As with Anglo Irish Bank, we would like the...

Fiscal Policy. (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: On the €3 billion, what is the situation regarding banks which are refusing to renew guarantees or rolling over existing lending facilities and describing that as new? How will that be identified and assessed?

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion (Resumed). (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Tell that to the-----

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion (Resumed). (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Deputy is talking about-----

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion (Resumed). (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: No wonder they destroyed the economy.

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion (Resumed). (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: I thank those who have contributed to the debate on the Labour Party's proposed strategic investment bank. We are not accepting the Sinn Féin amendment. In a recent article in Rolling Stone, the American writer, Matt Taibbi, compared an American bank to a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money"....

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion (Resumed). (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: As my colleague, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, has said, we want to concentrate not only on sorting out the disastrous mess that Fianna Fáil created in the banks, but also on the future. That is why we need an institution that will focus on investment in small and medium sized enterprises, for innovation purposes and in public infrastructure. As Deputy Higgins has said, rather than pumping money...

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion (Resumed). (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister told me he was. It must be classical music. I apologise. I was having a David McWilliams moment.

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion (Resumed). (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: If one watches any popular television series based on areas where young people are unemployed, such as "The Wire" in Baltimore or "Boys from the Black Stuff" one can see the effect of long-term male unemployment. It scars young men, not just for a few years but for decades. Professor Blanchflower is a world authority on this and was a member of the Bank of England monetary committee. He is...

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date by the Revenue Commissioners in its investigation into offshore assets and foreign-held bank accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17229/10]

Written Answers — Mortgage Arrears: Mortgage Arrears (28 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date by the interdepartmental mortgage arrears review group; if he envisages a need for legislation to implement the recommendations of the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17195/10]