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Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: There will be much work for lawyers in this legislation. Under section 7, which addresses mergers and acquisitions, power will lie with the Minister rather than the Competition Authority. Has the Minister heard from the authority, which is normally aggressive in defending its territory? Section 8 addresses the role of the NTMA, which has done a good job in its management of the national...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister take shares if the impairment is permanent?

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: So we get equity only when a bank is totally banjaxed.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: They were the Taoiseach's figures yesterday.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: We will hold the Deputy to that.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: It is the taxpayers who are the last line of resort.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: This section is the heart of the Bill. It seeks to give the Minister extraordinary powers for the kind of scheme drawn up, whether and what will be paid by participants for the scheme and what the scheme will consist of. We have heard the Taoiseach and the Minister talk about it as a guarantee scheme but the section makes it very clear that it extends over a whole range of potential...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Because every time they come in they tell us everything is perfect.

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: The purpose of this amendment is to ensure the Minister for Finance outlines the details of the scheme to the House. Before the Act comes into operation the Minister should lay before each House of the Oireachtas, for its approval, full particulars of the terms and conditions set out under section 6(4), including the terms and conditions of any scheme. This scheme is being toasted by bankers...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: We are asking for a scheme of regulation, because so far——

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: We are asking for the principle that it will be laid before the House. The Minister will say subsequently to the Opposition that he was never asked about this point. He is an able debater and he will be on various media shows saying: "They never asked about it." This is our one opportunity to do so. We wish to know what the Minister will do to rein in the banks and to make them pay for...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: What are the assets?

Business of Dáil (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: I cannot hear the Ceann Comhairle clearly as the acoustics do not carry to this part of the House. As yet we have not seen a set of Government amendments, although we have our own amendments. I am not sure whether other parties have tabled amendments. Does the Ceann Comhairle wish to call a short recess so we can get the amendments and read them? It is important that we are given a chance...

Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Committee Stage. (1 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 1: In page 1, before section 1, to insert the following new section: "1.—This Act (other than section 7) shall not come into operation until the Minister has published and laid before each House of the Oireachtas for its approval full particulars of the terms and conditions under section 6(4) including the terms and conditions of any scheme." I do not wish to quibble...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (30 Sep 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding allocated from budget 2008 for the proposed new Central Mental Hospital; the funding she proposes for the completion of the project in each of the years 2009, 2010 and 2011; the costs incurred to date on the project, including land acquisition costs, consultants, designers, architects; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (30 Sep 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Health Information and Quality Authority on the misdiagnosis of cancer in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32148/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (30 Sep 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 188: To ask the Taoiseach the bonuses awarded by his Department to staff members for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number and proportion of staff in receipt of bonuses for each of those years; the average bonus paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32006/08]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (30 Sep 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 189: To ask the Taoiseach if he will list in regard to his Department and State agencies or bodies operating under the aegis of his Department, the original proposal announced in December 2003 in regard to decentralisation; the position in regard to each such proposed decentralisation; the number which have been completed; the number of persons who have been relocated; the number...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (30 Sep 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 195: To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil servants and other public servants in his Department who had been decentralised from Dublin to other locations by the original deadline for the completion of the plan of December 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33064/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (30 Sep 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the bonuses awarded by her Department to staff members for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number and proportion of staff in receipt of bonuses for each of those years; the average bonus paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31999/08]