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Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: What is the Irish percentage of that?

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Its boss said he only knew what he read in the newspapers.

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister never answered the question. Does he intend to do this before or after NAMA?

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: No, I heard you released them at lunchtime.

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: We have some large life insurance-----

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: With the Acting Chairman's permission, I propose to share time with Deputies Pat Rabbitte and Arthur Morgan. Will she tell me when eight or nine minutes are remaining?

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: Dáil Éireann declines to give a Second Reading to the Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 because of the provision contained in the Bill that will allow for the indefinite extension of the bank guarantee scheme by Ministerial Order. It is nine months since the fateful night of 29...

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: -----in the aftermath of a Fianna Fáil defeat and are getting their demand in now lest this Government slip up soon. This morning's Irish Independent reported the case of a developer being taken to court by a financial institution covered by the guarantee scheme. Unnamed sources criticised the court action as being unwise and not what had been expected. The Minister's colleague, the...

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: -----from, presumably, the Department of Finance. For the Dáil to award these sweeping powers to a Minister is an abdication of responsibility. For Government Deputies to agree so casually to this Bill would be a shocking dereliction of duty. The Dáil has a sacred duty to scrutinise the exercise of power by Ministers. This Bill abandons that duty and enables the Minister to exercise...

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Whatever the event was - let us call it a tea party. There were tea cups and coffee. The Minister stated: "Governments have to prevent banks failing and stabilise them." There one has it - no caveats, no exceptions. Every bank is of systemic importance. None can be allowed to fail. In a nutshell, that is the new Fianna Fáil ideology. Children can be allowed to die or to live lives of...

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: No. I hope the Minister gets around to reading what some of the economists have to say. That is a mild comment compared to some of the analyses on the various websites. I wish to refer to the transfer of the pension liabilities. The Minister should listen to me for a moment. Deputy Ardagh is sitting behind the Minister and he has some sensible questions to ask about the Bill. We are...

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: It is related to NAMA. That legislation will be at the same time.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: It did not work either.

Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister giving the House a schedule of the matters that will be part of the measure? I wish to raise a point of order.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: I object to the way this Bill is being taken. The leader of the Labour Party has set out our concerns about the section of the Bill dealing with NAMA and the guarantee. In effect, it enables the establishment of NAMA and loans to be transferred at what will probably be very cheap prices. However, other parts of the Bill seriously deserve detailed scrutiny. Only in the past hour and a half...

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: The final section of the Bill has another very important provision to provide very important powers to the regulator on putting a life insurance company into administration. I asked the Department of Finance to explain what this provision is about. Is it about a particular life insurance company-----

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: -----or a company in this country working in life insurance?

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: This is more use of the back door by a Government that is afraid to come in and face the people. Not only do we have one guillotine today, we have six this week. All I can say is that in terms of a functioning democracy if the Taoiseach wants to restore our credibility in the international financial markets this is not the way to do it. Members of the Opposition are not even given a proper...

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: To appoint an administrator to a life insurance business.

Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Joan Burton: Why the rush?