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Banking System: Statements (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The financial announcements yesterday by Anglo Irish Bank included a statement that the Government had issued an €8.3 billion promissory note, IOU, to the bank. The Labour Party has agreed to the arrangements as outlined by the Tánaiste but no detailed advice has been made available to us as the Opposition in regard to under what legislation the €8.3 billion promissory note——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: If the Ceann Comhairle will bear with me, I am making a point. We have accepted the arrangements and will not vote against them now——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Momentous decisions have been taken in our name. I am asking the Tánaiste——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: ——if the Government will undertake to give more time to this issue when the Dáil returns. A commitment of €8.3 billion, signed without the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, telling us yesterday that it was going into the Anglo Irish Bank accounts, payable at €830 million a year for the next ten years——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: We were not told that. This is a milestone.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Will the Government agree to come back to this and to allocate more time——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: ——to the bank discussion after Easter?

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: We are agreeing to the order but will the Government say now that it will give the Opposition more information about the deal done with Anglo Irish Bank that appeared in the bank's accounts yesterday?

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Yes, but only 30 minutes have been allocated.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: I want a commitment from the Government that it will give the Opposition a further briefing and come back after Easter and spend longer than 30 minutes on questions on this matter. This is the future of our country.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: This is war reparations. This is similar to what happened after Versailles and after the Franco-Prussian War.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Irish taxpayer is carrying a debt now——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: ——that has been put on them——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle does not want us to discuss this.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle is like the guy who gets the debt collectors bill in the door and decides not to open it.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: We want a discussion.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: The inquiry stops on 30 September.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: Tough.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Joan Burton: A Cheann Comhairle, I object. That is a disgraceful answer.