Results 33,921-33,940 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Perhaps Deputy Gogarty might retrace his steps because I am finding what he has to say difficult to follow.
- National Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Can the SPV create a subsidiary or associates which they could use as derivatives to off-load the risk?
- National Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: I welcome the concessions made by the Minister on the advice of the Attorney General to give legal recognition to the SPV in the Bill. That is a positive step. In section 4, the definition of a NAMA group entity on page 20 is "a subsidiary of NAMA" and so on, and reference is made to "any other body corporate and any trust, partnership," etc. The Labour Party has put forward an amendment in...
- National Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: We put forward an amendment to allow for a private auditor together with the Comptroller and Auditor General.
- National Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It was part of the complexity of the definition of the entity.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: It happens in other jurisdictions.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: That is not the purpose of this section.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Should be doing but there is no freedom of speech.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Deputy Mulcahy does not have any experience of being in Government or working with civil servants. If he had, he would not be making that kind of comment.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: And the Government did not thank them too much for that.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, did not have the backbone to go against Anglo Irish bank-----
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: -----and look after the taxpayers' interests.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, bares a high responsibility for all of this.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: What if they are rubbish?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Really. Has the Deputy looked at the bond spreads recently?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Has Deputy Mulcahy looked at the bond spreads recently?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: We will not put Deputy Mulcahy in charge of the banks.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: The reputational damage to the country would have been far less.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Where was the Taoiseach, Deputy Brian Cowen, then?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)
Joan Burton: Would the Minister tell us why his officials were writing to Europe saying Anglo was fine?