Results 35,641-35,660 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that senior bankers at a bank (details supplied) are in line to receive bonuses for 2008 up to 80% of the 2007 bonus; his views on whether such practices are inappropriate at a financial institution benefiting from a blanket guarantee from the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance the way the public interest directors at banks covered by the bank guarantee scheme will be remunerated; the amount of this remuneration; the person who will make the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47338/08]
- Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance if the public interest directors at banks covered by the bank guarantee scheme will undergo specialised training for that role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47339/08]
- Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the way public interest directors at banks covered by the bank guarantee scheme are to report back to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47340/08]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the review carried out recently of the National Pensions Reserve Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47341/08]
- Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance the approximate average effect on the public finances of each 0.1% increase in the live register figures taking into account reduced income tax revenues, increased social welfare payments, including secondary benefits, and other associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47563/08]
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 11 December 2008, the details of the â¬17.5 million acquisition of sites for deferred elements of the decentralisation programme, including the cost per site, date of acquisition, current value, current usage, current rental income and future intentions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland will participate in the joint european resources for micro-to-medium enterprises scheme managed by the European Investment Fund through which a portion of European Regional Development Funds can be allocated to the establishment of holding funds to support small and medium enterprises by improving the ability of SMEs to access finance;...
- Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement on 14 December 2008 that up to â¬10 billion will be used to inject capital into the Irish banking system, the maximum possible proportion of State participation; if up to â¬10 billion in State funds could be injected into the banking system; if sources of State funding other than the National Pensions Reserve Fund...
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Finance the annual, full-year cost to the Exchequer of exempting interest earned on foreign or off shore bank accounts from the income levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47567/08]
- Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in respect of the proposed route change for the number 37 bus in Dublin 15; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this route change will, in effect, replace the existing 237 service which currently operates that route, taking in Blanchardstown town centre; the way the proposed new 37 route is judged to be in competition...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is taking steps to ensure that private sector defined benefit pension schemes can meet their funding requirements; if she proposes to make changes to the regulations governing such funds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47342/08]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the budgeted expenditure for the Money, Advice and Budgeting Service for each of the past five years; the number of staff and advisers employed by MABS; the average and the longest waiting period for people availing of the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47335/08]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 266: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of mortgage payment assistance; the number expected to avail of such assistance in 2009; the average and longest time that passes between application for such assistance and the first payment; the conditions for the receipt of such assistance; if people must be unemployed in order to receive such...
- Recapitalisation of Credit Institutions: Statements (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: The Minister is just waiting for the Christmas recess.
- Recapitalisation of Credit Institutions: Statements (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: I wish to share time with Deputy Pat Rabbitte.
- Recapitalisation of Credit Institutions: Statements (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: This debate takes place just as the Central Statistics Office has announced that GNP for the third quarter has fallen by 4.9%. This is, unfortunately, not recession but depression territory for the tens of thousands of people whose jobs are at stake and for the hundreds and thousands of businesses which may be forced to close next year. The Minister in his short comments, most of which...
- Recapitalisation of Credit Institutions: Statements (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: These foreign venture capitalists who lie behind some of the recapitalisation proposals, if allowed to take control of significant sectors of the Irish banking industry, pose an extreme danger. I can understand that the Minister is in some difficulty but this is a Parliament and he should not have refused to answer questions on this matter if, as he suggests, he has a plan. Perhaps the most...
- Recapitalisation of Credit Institutions: Statements (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: That was the final report. The Minister had several drafts before that.
- Recapitalisation of Credit Institutions: Statements (18 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Be honest.