Results 33,081-33,100 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Mortgage Interest Rates. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: I note the Minister is very fond of the word "disappointed" with regard to the wrongdoing of Seán FitzPatrick in the window-dressing of the balance sheet of Anglo Irish Bank at the end of a year, as well as the provisions of Permanent TSB to lend money. That was probably one of the most outrageous events in the history of Irish banking when the balance sheet of a major bank was altered, yet...
- Mortgage Interest Rates. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: This crisis is affecting hundreds of thousands of families, many of whom are also facing severe salary cuts. I received a letter yesterday from a public servant who is going to private lenders to borrow in order to meet mortgage payments. Many of the private finance companies are charging a fee of â¬30 for every â¬100 borrowed, but that is the only recourse that many people have, and it...
- Mortgage Interest Rates. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Would that include his representatives?
- Mortgage Interest Rates. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: We previously discussed a two year moratorium. The moratorium currently available is very short and sub-prime lenders do not offer it. Has the Minister done anything about extending the moratorium to two years, as we requested?
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether serious challenges will remain for the banking sector here after completion of the transfer of toxic loans to the National Asset Management Agency; if, post-NAMA, he foresees significant future losses on the banks' remaining loan books including mortgages, consumer credit and commercial lending; his views on whether credit...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister agree the NAMA process is going far more slowly than predicted during the discussion on the Bill in this House? Most of us have heard the horror stories emerging from all sides in banking. A great number of distressed loans were undertaken with almost no collateral. There is great confusion about who has title to loans. Many loans were on foot of solicitors' undertakings...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister made an announcement about the delegation of a significant range of banking functions to the NTMA. It seems the agency is taking over a significant quantum of functions in respect of banking that the Department of Finance used to provide. The NTMA is now to deal with the capital needs of institutions, realignment and restructuring within the institutions and the general advice...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: I wish to ask a very brief supplementary question.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Minister read out a very long answer and my question is very brief.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The NTMA is not directly answerable to the Dáil so we are nowââ
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Sorry, this is a very real point. The Minister read out very long answersââ
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Sorry, the Minister read out very long answersââ
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: This is very brief. Where is the NTMA if it is not answerable to the Dáil?
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: On a point of order, this was already requested of the Taoiseach who did not seem to know what we were talking about this morning.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Will the Government provide time in the House for a full debate on this new division of functionsââ
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: ââand arrangements with the NTMA?
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach and the Government did not give us the answer. Can the Minister give us the answer?
- European Central Bank Lending. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister agree that in the longer term, the bond markets are likely to count NAMA bonds as part of Irish debt? While I agree with the Minister that there has been much favourable international comment in regard to wage reductions, for example, and a favourable comparison of Ireland with Greece, that is unlikely to sustain itself as the NAMA process works through because the level of...
- European Central Bank Lending. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: The nationalisation of the banks.
- Freedom of Information. (3 Feb 2010)
Joan Burton: I would like to ask the Minister about his Department's handling of a number of freedom of information requests made by me, which have been ongoing since last July or earlier. The requests relate to the handling of the events referred to in Question No. 92. The Department has informed me that of the 90 documents pertaining to my request, it has decided to refuse to release 64 of them, to...