Results 34,301-34,320 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: It is a toxic triangle.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: The Ceann Comhairle's expenses, I think.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should not tempt us. He is skating on thin ice.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: They are.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: Look at the girl from Kildare.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: What have we got now?
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 160: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department, including all authorities, agencies or other institutions under the aegis of his Department, who have applied for the incentivised early retirement scheme and the incentivised career break scheme; the number who have been made redundant in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30173/09]
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: The toxic triangle of Fianna Fáil, bankers and developer-borrowers must be dealt with. I will send the relevant sections of the Bill to the Minister. I acknowledge that he wrote to me yesterday to indicate his intention to amend certain sections at the request of the Labour Party arising from legal advice we received on current crisis conditions. I will send him the further legal advice...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: When Mr. Bo Lundgren, whom the Government praised to the skies, visited Dublin some months ago he made three points. He suggested one should not pay more than market value, which means we should not pay a 10% or 15% long-term economic value premium. He then suggested that when a country finds itself in a grave position, as Sweden did at one time, the appropriate and best recourse was...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister called in a man who stated last year that he would die before he would accept State equity. Last night, we saw the same man smiling for the camera as he entered the Department of Finance.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: He looked like a happy camper. What does he know that we do not know? What we heard today was not fantastic news for the poor taxpayers and citizens who the Minister will ask to take cuts in services and wages and further tax increases in the next few weeks. Last night, I was reminded of a line from a song, "As he walked along the Bois de Boulogne with an independent air", except the...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: It may not necessarily be the case but it is highly possible. Is it probable?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: I refer to both types.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: The second set of bonds might be discounted for the risk factor and the interest rate might be higher, but once the main bonds are issued they will be treated by the markets as, in effect, becoming part of Irish Government debt. They will be called NAMA bonds. In his report to the Minister for Finance, the economist Dr. Peter Bacon said: Creditability is the overriding requirement of any...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: The Minister should ask about how it started.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: The ECB warned the Government about this proposal
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: We are opposing the reading of this Bill at this Stage because we believe we have put forward a better proposal, which will safeguard the interests of the taxpayer and will cost nothing like the proposals being made today by the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, which will probably cost approximately â¬55 billion.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: That is because interest rates are kept low by the ECB.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: And the developers, do not forget them.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)
Joan Burton: How much more will have to be provided in capitalisation?