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- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I would not give in to the cheap shots that are being made at the moment by the Deputy in a situation in which those people have no opportunity, if they so wish, to make their own case regarding their situation. I repeat, for the Deputy's information, that I want to see an inquiry by a competent authority. Regarding people who have received water bills, as the Deputy is aware, well over...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----on which hundreds of thousands of Irish people - the Deputy's fellow citizens, neighbours and friends - rely for employment and for financial independence for themselves and their families.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I am happy to see an inquiry carried out. The Minister for Finance inherited a relationship framework that was put in place by the previous Government and the Minister for Finance at the time. The purpose of that was to keep politicians at arm's length and for IBRC to conduct its ordinary business without any day-to-day interference by politicians in its affairs, so that it could...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I will go to the United States or the United Kingdom and I will certainly meet with people like stock exchange authorities to promote Ireland for investment, for employment and for business. I make no apology for that, because in the world I live in, working class people actually need jobs, and the important thing is that they get jobs, that they get training and that they get...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: How dare she criticise me-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for promoting employment? How dare she criticise me-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for promoting employment in Ireland and helping people to find jobs in Ireland? I have no idea what her vision-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for Ireland is. Does she just want nobody to work and no promotion of our country for tourism or visitors?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: Does she want nobody working in this country? Does she want our agricultural sector lying idle, with nobody working? Her vision seems to be that people should not work at all. I make no apologies to her or to any of her colleagues-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----for promoting work, employment and investment in this country-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----whether in the United States, in the European Union or in the United Kingdom.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has a different view. Obviously she is entitled to her view, but I am happy to promote Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: When the Minister for Finance got critical representations from staff and officials in his Department and he was using the framework inherited from the previous Government, he actually undertook to have the decisions examined.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: Not only that, but he changed the framework-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and provided an assistant secretary to oversee transactions-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----in relation to this company. The problem I have, and maybe that Fianna Fáil also has, although its members set up the company-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: -----is that this company was essentially part of the mechanisms to deal with the mess, the destruction and the human misery left by the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank. It involved trying to pick up the pieces of hundreds of businesses and get them back on their feet so there could be employment. I want an independent inquiry by a competent authority.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy McDonald described it as hunky-dory. The Deputy should think about that period of time for people in business in Ireland. Sinn Féin recently held talks with businessmen from America to reassure them about the business bona fides of the party but the reference to Ireland and the business goings-on at a time as hunky-dory is genuinely and seriously astonishing.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: It indicates the Deputy has no sense of what happens when a business is falling apart and, in this particular case, 1,500 jobs, representing people and families, are at risk.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Joan Burton: I reiterate that I want to see an independent inquiry by a competent authority. In fairness to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, and Deputy McDonald is not noted in this House as somebody who is fair to anybody, I remember her colleague, Arthur Morgan, who was then a Sinn Féin Deputy, running down the stairs late at night to vote in favour of the bank guarantee. Her colleague,...