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Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: In the context of the likely delay in implementing the legislation on NAMA, has the Government given any consideration to emergency legislation, especially in respect of performing property assets to prevent them being transferred overseas and into other jurisdictions? It is well known that at the moment most of the hundred or so developers are actively involved in transferring-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: -----what assets they can, especially performing assets, that the Taoiseach informed the leader of the Labour Party would be transferred to NAMA.

Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Those assets are being transferred overseas. We would co-operate with emergency legislation to secure those assets.

Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Is emergency legislation promised in this area?

Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: We are trying to be helpful to the Taoiseach-----

Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: ----in safeguarding this country's assets.

Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Otherwise, every man, woman and child in this country is facing massive liabilities for NAMA.

Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Can we at least offer co-operation on safeguarding the performing assets?

Order of Business (Resumed) (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: What about the assets that are currently going overseas?

Written Answers — Innovation Fund Ireland: Innovation Fund Ireland (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date, with respect to the €500 million State backed venture capital fund announced in December 2008, of implementing this initiative; when she expects the first disbursements of funds to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18954/09]

Written Answers — Small and Medium Enterprises: Small and Medium Enterprises (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on introducing a working capital loan guarantee programme for viable small and medium enterprises with funding problems; her views on both of these models; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18955/09]

Written Answers — Student Support Schemes: Student Support Schemes (19 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the De Buitléir Report on Student Support 1993 and its principal recommendation that there be an assets based means test in the determination of eligibility for student support; his further views on recommendation 51 of the OECD Report on Higher Education 2004 in favour of the De Buitléir proposal and its view that...

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: On behalf of all the Labour Deputies I join in the tributes to Mick Phelan. He is one of the people who always brightens up Dáil Éireann, particularly when one comes in on a wet day, such as today, and he encourages one to keep on going, just as he encourages Kildare to keep going. He has given long service stretching back to the time of Liam Cosgrave as Taoiseach. He served before that...

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: I refer to the notice published yesterday on the NTMA website advertising and tendering for advisers for NAMA. We have received legal advice that proceeding with NAMA as a shadow agency is very fraught in terms of the constitutional and legal proprieties. Information held by the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and other agencies is confidential under the terms of the legislation....

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Will the Tánaiste indicate if it is the intention of the Government to proceed with a shadow NAMA with all costs on the taxpayer but without legal clarity, particularly in the context of the legal advice that legislative power is required? I inform the Tánaiste that in respect of NAMA and particularly in respect of the earlier reply on SR Technics-----

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: If the Tánaiste were on "The Apprentice" she would be told, "You are fired" because of the lack of performance. Can the Tánaiste tell us what is happening on NAMA and when the legislation will appear?

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: They are not elected. The Tánaiste is.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: I ask for a debate in respect of SR Technics which now seems to be doomed. Will the Tánaiste allow a debate under the terms of Standing Order 32?

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: Before anything is agreed on the Order of Business, I would like to have a commitment from the Tánaiste that in the House today she will discuss what is another jobs disaster for the Dublin region. It concerns not only the north side of Dublin but also the counties of Meath, Louth and Kildare and surrounding areas where many people of the 1,200 people employed by SR Technics live. This...

Order of Business (14 May 2009)

Joan Burton: ------to take assets out of Ireland, asset strip the Irish company and only leave the base of the skilled workers - 1,200 men - with nothing to do. It is a tragedy for the families involved and the economy in a week when the Dublin Airport Authority has announced a further 400 redundancies. Will the Tánaiste come into the Dáil today before we agree to anything on the Order of Business-----