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Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the granting by the EU of licences for exploration activity in the territories formerly known as the Spanish Sahara. [5226/09]

Written Answers — Arms Trade: Arms Trade (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the high level of arms sales by European Union members to the Middle East over the past five years. [5227/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if, for each Secretary General in each Government Department who has retired since 1 January 1997 to date in 2009, he will provide the date of each retirement and actual salary at that date and the current pension of each retiree. [5364/09]

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: The Minister did not even get a memo.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Will there be a green director——

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: On a point of order, is that the same €100 million that was announced at the time of the bank guarantee or is it an additional €100 million?

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: A 50% cut would only reduce their incomes to €1 million.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: That is not sufficient.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: In government.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: On a point of order——

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: ——I admit to having a bank account. Is that what the Minister is talking about? I got my house by taking out a mortgage. I think he did too unless he inherited one.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I did not say that. I said they were unlikely to be adequate and I outlined my analysis of why.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: He changed his mind.

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: What about the €544 million?

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I thank the Minister for Finance for an answer to a parliamentary question provided last night, which I will share with the House. I asked the Minister for Finance: . . . if, in view of the nationalisation of Anglo-Irish Bank, it is intended to proceed with the sponsorship of the Anglo-Irish Novices Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival 2009; the amount of sponsorship involved; if it is intended...

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: Maybe Labour Party members and people like me, now that race meetings are not infested with corporate tents and Fianna Fáil party political funding efforts,——

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: ——can go back to the race track without being offended by the sight of Fianna Fáil and its pals with their noses deep in the trough. If the tent had been closed down a long time ago we would not be where we are now. Yesterday's revelation that the Minister for Finance did not read in full the report of the €7 billion deposit, shocked everybody in the country. This ironically is the...

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: He had not read or been given the report?

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I find that even more shocking. To some extent the Minister is an apprentice Minister for Finance. We know that he has worked very hard on this issue but until six or seven months ago the Taoiseach had been Minister for Finance for several years. He was regarded as somebody with a great deal of expertise, insight and knowledge of his portfolio and brief. He is also the Taoiseach. I do not...

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Joan Burton: I hope he is away doing important business for Ireland on the EU or connected with jobs and not out canvassing. Government can no longer be business as usual with members of Fianna Fáil canvassing every corner, every GAA club, every race meeting and football match. They have no time to read reports because they are out there canvassing for the next election and the election after that....