Results 34,421-34,440 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister referred in earlier responses to the principles of valuation and the valuation process. He referred to a firm of advisers, HSBC, in that process. Will the Minister agree that what is needed is a separate and independent valuation board, like the Swedish model, of independently qualified valuation people? In Sweden this included people from the academic sphere. The same firms...

Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister aware these are all the same firms?

Pension Provisions. (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: I ask the Minister to update the House on the number of public servants who have decided to take the Government's offer of early retirement and the number of public servants, including people such as principal teachers, who are retiring and in some cases have full service so they are not part of this special offer. Has the Minister examined whether he will proceed with the suggestion which...

Pension Provisions. (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: In respect of the institutions like the universities whose pension funds were taken over, the Minister took over the assets, basically giving an off-balance sheet benefit to the State in terms of assets, but he did not take on the liabilities. The universities have powers and apparently it is the practice among some of them to give added years of service when certain staff are retiring,...

Pension Provisions. (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: The Government has put in €3 billion into Anglo Irish Bank and recently promised another €1 billion. The bank has acknowledged that it is giving out almost no new lending. In fact, the figure for new lending for the first quarter was less than €35 million. Who is codding who? We are putting €4 billion into a bank which is not lending to any sector. It is simply minding developers...

Twenty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty of Lisbon) Bill 2009: Second Stage (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: Is that a BlackBerry or a mobile telephone?

Twenty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty of Lisbon) Bill 2009: Second Stage (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: The notice only refers to mobile telephones, not BlackBerrys.

(8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: I wish to share my time with Deputy Gilmore.

(8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: I listened last night with great disappointment to the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, rejecting, almost out of hand, the Labour Party's modest reform proposals set out in the Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009 but I welcome the much more accommodating tone of the Minister of State, Deputy Andrews, here this evening. Perhaps overnight there has been some change of...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide for the extension of the range of assets eligible for transfer to the National Asset Management Agency to include commercial debt, residential mortgages, or other consumer debt; if the NAMA legislation will include a ceiling on the value of assets eligible for transfer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27992/09]

Written Answers — House Repossessions: House Repossessions (8 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure that there is not a surge in home repossessions upon the expiration of the 12 month moratorium agreed with Allied Irish Banks and another bank (details supplied) as part of their recapitalisation schemes; his views on the level of mortgage arrears here and its evolution; and if he will make a statement on the...

Agreements with Members. (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: My understanding is that in recent months, an bord snip nua has been looking at expenditure headings in all Departments. As the Taoiseach himself acknowledged, the gross cost of the attached assistant principal officer's salary, pension entitlements and so on probably is approximately €100,000 per annum. Even if that person devoted only 20% of his or her time to looking after the two...

Agreements with Members. (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: I thank the Taoiseach for the reply but it does not get us much further. If we are in a life and death situation as an economy, with all expenditure being reviewed as to whether it is absolutely critical and essential, the allocation of an assistant principal in whole or in part to mind two Independent Deputies is difficult for many ordinary people to justify when it is compared to the...

Agreements with Members. (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: -----he had made arrangements-----

Agreements with Members. (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: -----to be adequately and appropriately advised on how to look after the economy.

Agreements with Members. (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: The question I asked was whether the remit of the McCarthy committee was general to all headings of public expenditure and whether it included the operation of the arrangements with the Independents and their minding by an assistant principal officer.

Northern Ireland Issues. (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: I refer to the briefing by the Minister for Finance in respect of NAMA. Remarks are attributed to the Northern Ireland First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, in respect of NAMA and the way in which it would operate. He indicated his fears that assets, which would be presumably covered by Irish banks and, therefore, part of the NAMA process, might be put for sale on the market and sold off...

Northern Ireland Issues. (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: -----fair and do they reflect the discussion?

Order of Business (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: Will the Taoiseach indicate if he would make available to the Opposition a timetable in respect of NAMA by the time the Dáil rises? At the North-South meeting certain briefings were given concerning NAMA suggesting it would be done over a very lengthy period, perhaps ten years or more. It seems odd to brief people in detail from the Northern Ireland Executive but not to be in a position to...

Order of Business (7 Jul 2009)

Joan Burton: If were are to believe The Irish Times and the comments of the First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson-----