Results 33,041-33,060 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The IMF says â¬35 billion is needed for the Government's package.
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: He is a banker, why would he not support it?
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: That is not true.
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: We will learn their conditions from the Commission on ECB in due course.
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: They cannot get a loan to do that.
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: People need the banks to lend.
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: They cannot do so under the Government formula.
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The banks will not lend.
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: They should call in to their local friendly bank for a loan.
- Finance Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Has Fianna Fáil introduced laws to prevent them doing so?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Like the developers and the building industry.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: On the same issue, I have a query in regard to the proposal by the Minister for Finance to bring an order before the House regarding the transfer of powers to the NTMA. The legal advice available to the Labour Party indicates there is no power on the part of the Minister to delegate to the NTMA. The latter is effectively a secret organisation that is not open to any public scrutiny and is...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Must we now live with secret government? At least the Department of Finance, despite its many failings, has to answer to this House through the Minister.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The NTMA is a secret organisation. When will this order come before the House and what is the position in regard to the Attorney General's advice? Our legal advice indicates it is not possible for the Minister for Finance to delegate advisory functions to the NTMA under the relevant legislation. In regard to NAMA, the NTMA has very limited functions and I do not see how it can be done...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Will it be same model that the Minister for Health and Children used in the case of the HSE?
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: That is the model-----
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: On a point of information, the Minister's proposal is for a repeat of the HSE model.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Members of this House do not get answers from the Minister for Health and Children.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: It is a repeat of that model.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: It is an example of secret government by Fianna Fáil.