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Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: This is a burning issue.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: What is the current situation in regard to the long-promised legislation dealing with management companies? The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform circulated a two page letter which highlighted all the difficulties he has identified and all the different parties he has consulted, including builders and developers. It looks as if the prospect of getting this legislation in the...

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: -----living in managed developments where, typically, they are being charged large fees from €600 to €2,500 per year.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: Their apartments can get flooded and their roofs can get destroyed and they have no recourse. Has the Government a revised timeframe for introducing this legislation before this Dáil runs its course because very many people are very badly affected by its absence?

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: It is really difficult. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform circulated a two page letter but it is a letter of despair because it seems to indicate that no resolution of this really pressing issue will be forthcoming while he is Minister.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: I thank the Taoiseach for the reply.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: Does the Taoiseach have a timeframe for the legislation? We regularly deal with hundreds of thousands of people affected by the absence of legislation in this area, young homeowners in negative equity who are finding it extremely tough.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: We do not have a problem with No. 1 and the Dáil sitting until 10 p.m. However, we have a problem with a guillotine on the Finance Bill. Since the debate on the Finance Bill was arranged, circumstances have changed dramatically.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: I simply wish to make it clear that we do not have a problem and we do not object to the Dáil sitting until 10 p.m.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: We object to a guillotine being imposed on this legislation, which is probably the most important Bill to be considered by the Dáil so far this year. The Bill has a number of features about which Deputies on all sides of the House want to talk, including the fact that the Minister is imposing VAT of 13.5% on service charges. This will affect many people. The Minister is doing the same...

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: At a time of price deflation, the Government is leading the charge, through stealth charges, to drive up costs for ordinary families. We learned overnight and yesterday, and the poor Taoiseach only learned yesterday, that 750 jobs are to be lost in Bank of Scotland (Ireland).

Order of Business (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle allowed his colleague from the north east to speak without interruption. I expect the same courtesy to be extended to me. There is a need for detailed discussion on the change in the employment situation in Bank of Scotland (Ireland). There are proposals in the Finance Bill on NAMA and banking and the Minister for Finance, in his statement, made a number of assertive...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: It has a State banking licence.

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: Over five years.

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (9 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of decisions he has taken under section 6 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 by direction to exempt a particular public servant or a class or group of public servants from the operation of section 2 of that Act or to modify the operation of that section, indicating the particular public servant...

Written Answers — Civil Service Staff: Civil Service Staff (9 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance the procedures that are in place or are proposed to be put in place following the passing of the Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Act 2005 for the appointment of civil servants to Government Departments and their promotion; the powers that are to be delegated by Government Ministers to their Secretaries General; the powers that are to be...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (9 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the background and rationale to the decision to centralise the medical card application service to the primary care reimbursement service; the connection of this centralisation to the budget 2009 decision to means test all persons applying for a medical card aged 70 years and over which is enshrined in the Health Act 2008; the...

Public Service Remuneration: Motion (9 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: Before we go into what happened and the sequence of events, it is very important that Fianna Fáil recalls the circumstances in which it brought the country, for the second time in as many generations, to the point of economic ruin. The reason it has had these extraordinarily difficult budgets, which have imposed very heavily on low paid people, people on social welfare, people in receipt of...

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: This year's Finance Bill is a product of a Government which has run out of ideas about how to restore the economy, get people back to work, get business moving or get credit flowing from the banks. This Finance Bill, which should mark a turning point in our economic fortunes, is devoid of any real economic plan. The Government remains locked in denial about the failure of its banking...

Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: The tax relief on private hospitals was not abolished. It is like the tax relief which is proposed to be abolished regarding child care facilities. They all have end dates which, under qualifying conditions, can be extended. They carry a very long tail life in the tax system of a further 15 years. The Minister should not try to lecture me about what I know is in the tax code. The...