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Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: It was the Deputy's Minister for Finance who gave it an interview on St. Patrick's Day and discussed crony capitalism.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: No, I quote the totals now because they are staggering. The Deputy should add up the cost of servicing the debt. That is, if he is capable of doing that.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: How did he get away with €1.5 million if the Government is not looking after him?

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Big talk and no action.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: There must have been a truce.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Going back to the Bill, if the regulator spotted that the boss's son was not appropriately qualified for banking, what could he do about it? The boss's son would not have to show any qualifications - he would not even need his leaving certificate. He would just be lifted into his job in London by virtue of being the boss's son. The regulator would have to go to court. Instead of a system...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister's party appointed the current board.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: It required no accountability from the current board. There are good people in Fianna Fáil and connected with it. What is wrong with them coming before an Oireachtas committee to be examined on their qualifications for this very important position? Are we to learn nothing from the disaster so that the Minister can tell his cronies - the developers and the big bankers - that it is business...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Deputy should ask how many reports he has commissioned.

Order of Business (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Does the Minister keep a running count on all the reports he did?

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: I still do not understand the Government's national strategic approach in regard to this package of three-part legislation. Ordinary people have lost their jobs, many who invested in bank shares have lost their pensions, firms are starved of credit and Fianna Fáil has rescued the banks. It is only a €75 billion to €80 billion bill, but we are all right now and it is onwards and upwards...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: I want to highlight two issues which are in the media at present, one being the €1.5 million top-up bonus to Mr. Boucher. For the people in Fianna Fáil, used to the Galway tent, this is small change because they told most of their visitors in the tent that it was a tiny amount of money. However, to the average public servant who is thinking about how they will vote in regard to the Croke...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: In a situation where he is part of the management team that dabbled in crazy property deals that brought the bank to the brink of ruin, instead of having to repay money to the taxpayer, he gets a €1.5 million top-up. Could the Minister explain that to us? Fianna Fáil's irresponsibility in this matter is grotesque. Both in the legislation relating to the covered institutions, and the...

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: That is how the dealers described it because it was making crazy deals, outbidding those who had oil wells in some property deals. It encouraged its customers to outbid sheiks to buy and develop sites in London. The former regulator, Mr. Neary, of whom the Minister was once so fond, complained that it was some sort of anti-Irish sentiment from the British.

Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: He was close enough to the Minister at midnight on the night he bet the entire nation's patrimony on bailing out the banks. Who was at the heart of the bail out and who was among the Minister's principal advisers? The then Governor of the Central Bank and the then regulator. No one from the Opposition was there until the Minister had made his decisions. Those were the people who came in...

Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Come off it.

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (20 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will comment on the live register figures for February 2010 which indicate that there are 436,956 unemployed or under-employed across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11630/10]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (20 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the investment position of Irish credit unions that is accounted for by holdings of domestic credit institutions' senior debt; the amount by subordinated debt; the amount that each is accounted for by senior and subordinated debt by Anglo Irish Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14523/10]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (20 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of former staff from Anglo Irish Bank that have been recruited by the Financial Regulator in the past 18 months; the precautions that have been taken to ensure that there is no resulting conflicts of interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14812/10]