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- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: We call on citizens to protest their opposition to what Labour and Fine Gael are doing, because they are not doing it in the name of the people who elected them to office.
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: I am sorry. I do not want to interrupt the Minister.
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: This is not the way in which the Dáil should be doing business. It smacks of the type of stroke politics that Fianna Fáil pulled in its time and that Fine Gael and Labour rightly condemned.
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: The actual liquidation of Anglo Irish Bank, as opposed to the nonsense we are discussing tonight, should have been done when the bank first collapsed. That is what Sinn Féin argued for.
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: This toxic bank and its connections with speculators-----
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: -----developers and corrupt politicians-----
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: -----the "golden circle", brought this State to its knees. Instead of closing the bank down, Fianna Fáil bailed it out and poured billions of euro in taxpayers' money into it. Labour came along with Fine Gael and did exactly the same. Instead of liquidating the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation the Government wants to compound this mistake by turning bad banking debt into sovereign...
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: This comes after nearly two years of negotiations that the Taoiseach continuously claimed were too intense, detailed and technical for ordinary mortals and decent Deputies to understand. Suddenly, the Bill now has to be rushed through. This is a mark of the Government. The Dáil has never seen the fabled technical paper on the promissory note that, according to the Taoiseach, the...
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: This is no way to deal with any kind of legislation, certainly not legislation as important as the Bill before us. To our cost, the State's citizens have learned that rushed legislation is bad legislation. The test of the Government's machinations and their outcomes will be whether our citizens benefit, whether communities and low and middle-income families struggling under the burden of...
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: -----whether we will see investment in growth. Let us remind ourselves that the Government's proposal is a U-turn on the claims following the European Council meeting in June that there would be a deal on legacy debt by October. That month has come and gone, as has 2012, yet there is still no deal on legacy debt. Neither is there a separation, an idea to which the Government was converted...
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: I hope I will be shown the same latitude as has been shown to the leader of the Fianna Fáil Party.
- Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is a super-sub. Deputies and the citizens we represent have been listening to media speculation since late afternoon that a deal on the promissory note was imminent. Here we are at 1.30 a.m. and we have not been told anything by the Government about this issue. The most revealing part of the Minister's contribution was the following statement:I would have...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: No, we need more time.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: Why is this being forced into a two hour slot? A Cheann Comhairle, could I honourably suggest that if you want some order from Government Deputies, perhaps you should close the Dáil bar? That might be a useful way to get some order here.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: Two hours is too short a time.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: There is a more fundamental issue involved here. We were promised a new way of doing business. I would be immensely surprised if Members from the Government parties have read the Bill. We are being asked to parse it and Deputy Pearse Doherty has just arrived from a briefing on it. This is probably one of the most important Bills that will go through this Dáil and we are either going...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: We deserve the right to parse and study the Bill so the Government does not commit the same sin it accuses the last Government of committing, of rushing things through. The Labour Party was very loud at that time in opposition to what was going on. We need more time on this.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: Yes. I thank the Taoiseach for the European Union Presidency tie, which arrived in my pigeon hole.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: No, I got one. I am thanking the Taoiseach for it. Tá mé fíor bhuíoch don Taoiseach. I would like to think we would get much more than that.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach has just outlined that the summit will be dominated by negotiations on the EU seven-year budget. However, first I wish to deal with the ongoing negotiations on the promissory note. Two weeks ago it was reported that the ECB refused to endorse an Irish proposal on the promissory note. I understand from media reports that a new proposal will be brought by the Governor of the...