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- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: Of course it is.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: The Deputy has produced another rhetorical flourish. This Government has been making decisions but it is clear there has been very little support from the Opposition for the necessary decisions.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: The Deputy asked about the NAMA legislation.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: The Opposition cannot listen. They did not get long enough to speak and want more time.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: With regard to the NAMA legislation, the Minister made it very clear at the outset that he believed it would be September before it would be up and running.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: It is an arduous process and a complex piece of legislation, as people know. It is being prepared and will be brought forward in July.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: There will be an opportunity for everybody to study it and enact it in September.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: With regard to the lack of credit in the community, the Labour Party did not even back the bank guarantee, which brought about stability.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: The Labour Party was not right.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: The IMF has indicated the Labour Party was not right. A witness attending the meeting yesterday of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Services also said that such a policy was not the right one. I suppose the party's committee members did not attend that meeting.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: He did not
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: I would rather address the issues which were raised.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: That is the position. There is no mystique or dithering. We have made a decision to bring forward the legislation and we have indicated a timeline, which we will stick to. The Opposition will not support it because it has been playing the populist game by saying we are bailing out the banks from the day we had difficulty with financial stability in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: The Labour Party will get its soundbite from that. It can keep at it because that is the way it wants to go. In the meantime we will do what is necessary to take the distressed assets off those balance sheets and get credit into the Irish economy flowing more quickly, with or without the Opposition's support.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: If we cannot get it, unfortunately we will have to do without it.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: With regard to the McCarthy report, that informs the Government's consideration of the budgetary position for 2010. There will be cuts and savings and I look forward to the Labour Party being prepared to support an approach that brings our public finances back into order. I doubt it will happen.
- Government and Church Dialogue. (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, together. The meeting with the Church of Ireland archbishops of Armagh and Dublin on 15 June last was my first opportunity to receive them officially since becoming Taoiseach. I was accompanied at the meeting by the Minister for Education and Science and the Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs. Our meeting was a...
- Government and Church Dialogue. (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: One takes note of what anybody with an historically central role in education has to say. The archbishop addressed the Irish Primary Principals' Network in Dublin on 16 June last and made a speech on these general matters. In the past, representatives from the Department of Education and Science met Archbishop Martin and the chairperson of the bishops' committee on education to discuss more...
- Government and Church Dialogue. (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: As already stated, the Department of Education and Science is currently consulting directly with patrons with regard to specific areas where the establishment of new schools would be required and how emerging demands in these areas would be addressed. As part of this process, we will seek details of any schools where a change of patronage might potentially be relevant. A review of...
- Government and Church Dialogue. (8 Jul 2009)
Brian Cowen: I do not agree there is reluctance on the Government's part. Obviously the Constitution bestows rights on parents and religious denominations involved in education. This is not simply an issue for teachers or stakeholders but is a wider public societal issue. Archbishop Martin stated: "Education is too important an issue for it to be left just to teachers, or just to the Department of...