Results 35,061-35,080 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Financial Services Regulation. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: In the context of savings in the credit union movement, which total approximately â¬14 billion, has the Minister given any consideration to a proposal by a number of people in the credit unions that credit unions be permitted to hold a national community savings bond via the National Treasury Management Agency? This would offer an alternative and safe savings mechanism for the credit unions...
- Departmental Surveys. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister, as a distinguished senior counsel, know much about the psychology of shopping? I will tell him a little about what happens when one looks at the prices of jackets and dresses in the British multiples on Grafton Street. Although sterling and the euro are very close, one can pay up to 40% more because the differences in sterling are not being passed on, particularly by the...
- Departmental Surveys. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: I thought he said it was a disaster.
- Departmental Surveys. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Will the Minister go shopping?
- Financial Services Regulation. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Would the Minister ask the director of consumer affairs in the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority to undertake an investigation of this? Like the previous question on shopping, what we are looking for is positive signals where a consumer is in a fixed-rate mortgage. The Minister must remember he told me yesterday that at the end of December last there were â¬147 billion in house...
- Departmental Expenditure. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: In terms of some of the information we have received and information in the public domain, I am concerned about the operation of the group on the capital programme. In general, it has been indicated that the 2009 capital programme is approximately â¬8 billion and that â¬6 billion of that is committed or contracted for in some formal way. We have had some breakdowns in the information...
- Departmental Expenditure. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: I mean contractually; I am not talking about politics.
- Departmental Expenditure. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: We have no definition of what that means.
- Departmental Expenditure. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: However, many of the schools are not, and that is where one will get employment.
- Departmental Expenditure. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: They generate jobs locally around the country.
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the implementation of the car parking levy announced in budget 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12333/09]
- Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the evolution in their respective share prices and the recent events impacting on the global financial sector, it may be necessary to review the decision to invest the â¬7 billion in preference shares (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12334/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a property (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this property has been idle for a number of years; if this property comes under the remit of the Office of Public Works; if so, his proposals for the future use of the property; if his attention has further been drawn to the interest...
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding plans for the long promised refurbishment or replacement of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if he will confirm that funds will be made available through the summer works scheme 2009 for the refurbishment of the science laboratories and the home economics facilities at the school; and if he will make...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 with respect to the capital development programme; if funding is allocated to this effect for 2009 or for 2010 under his Department's multi annual school building and modernisation programme; if the appointed design team has completed its preliminary design and sketch activities...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the preparations for the construction and opening of a post-primary school in Luttrelstown, Dublin 15; if his Department and the County Dublin Vocational Education Committee have identified suitable accommodation for the opening of the school in September 2009; if he will confirm that this school will open in September...
- Fiscal Policy. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out and explain the economic priorities he identified to a newspaper (details supplied) including his proposal to clamp down on crony capitalism as reported on 17 March 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12684/09]
- Fiscal Policy. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for his reply. A front-page article in the international edition of the Financial Times on St. Patrick's Day â exactly a year after the St. Patrick's Day massacre in regard to Anglo Irish Bank shares â stated that Ireland is planning to introduce tough legislation to clamp down on "crony capitalism and excess bank lending" in the wake of the property bubble that has...
- Fiscal Policy. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister not agree that the best way to break up an incestuous relationship is to get rid of some of the parties to the relationship? Does the Minister accept that he has shown himself to be extraordinarily slow in bringing about change in the bank boards and that such change is a critical measure in terms of showing international bond holders that we are serious about bank reform?...
- Fiscal Policy. (26 Mar 2009)
Joan Burton: There has been no change in the largest institution.