Results 35,861-35,880 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: ââMinisters' Garda drivers. Instead, he chose to make a 43% cut in the agency's budget.
- Order of Business (16 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: As we are properly commemorating the development of our democracy and our first democratic day, it seems wrong that the Government is simultaneously forcing the resignation of the head of the Equality Authority, a person of integrity.
- Public Service Reform. (16 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach his views on reports that a minority report recommending the axing of 8,000 public service jobs was quashed during the OECD process of drawing up its recent report on the Irish public service; the representations or submissions, whether formally or informally, made to the OECD seeking amendments to the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance the savings he anticipates making in expenditure on property, rents and leases arising from the suspension of parts of the decentralisation programme; the leases or purchases of properties that are now redundant to requirements following his decision to suspend these elements of the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45344/08]
- Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to the reform, reorganisation and recapitalisation of the Irish banking sector, particularly those institutions covered by the bank guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45390/08]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 208: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of electronic voting machines being stored in south Tipperary; the storage costs to date; the projected future storage costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45820/08]
- Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: The Minister has a nerve talking about people unwilling to take harsh medicine. Does he recall that many other reputable economists and I advised time and again that his predecessor, the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, was stoking a property bubble in land speculation and construction prices which was totally unsustainable? We warned him time and again. Last year and the year before the cost of...
- Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: I did not say it is the sole, but the most significant, cause.
- Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Yes, it is.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister not appreciate that there is a clear conflict of interest between a director's mandate under company law to act at all times in the interests of the shareholders and their public interest mandate which the Minister has outlined as assisting the banks to return to a more stable situation? How much money are these directors to be paid and who will pick up the tab? Are they...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Is that not heavily compromising them if they are paid by the bank?
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Nobody has any query about the public interest credentials of all the people being offered for appointment to the banks. The Minister spoke about some kind of training course or briefing course being made available to these directors before they take up their appointment. What are they going to be trained or briefed on? Is this about the public interest or is it about modern financial...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: The Minister is in a position to do so under the legislation.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: The Minister is copping out then.
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: The contracts were different.
- Pension Provisions. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Earlier in the summer we were told of the Minister's arrangement to take on the assets and liabilities of certain semi-State and public bodies, including universities. Has an actuarial analysis being carried out as to the extent of these assets and liabilities and the further liabilities the State may be taking on? Will legislation be necessary in this area? In his Budget Statement, the...
- Banking Sector Regulation. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister acknowledge that many small and medium sized businesses around the country are in danger of shutting their doors after Christmas because there are no guarantees that the supply of credit to them will continue? What strategy has the Minister in respect of the recapitalisation of the banks? Is the Minister's strategy to invite foreign private equity and hedge funds to take...
- Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected tax revenue outturn and Exchequer borrowing requirement for 2008; his views on the November 2008 Exchequer returns and live register figures and their implications for the modification of his budget forecasts for 2009 tax revenue and average unemployment; his strategy to address Ireland's economic difficulties and get people back to...
- Tax Yield. (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: The Minister has made a number of important concessions in his reply. On budget day the Minister suggested the decline in GNP next year would be 1%. Four separate sets of very reputable economic forecasters have all indicated a 4% decline in the Irish economy in 2009. In his reply the Minister has accepted that it will be between 3% and 4%. This means that the Minister's budget day...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2008)
Joan Burton: It is going on a long time. Can the Tánaiste tell us the number of posters?