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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The PTSB then passed it over to Glenbeigh and then to Pepper. The value then was €890 million. Will Mr. Masding explain this to me? One way of reading the figure is that there has been a transfer at a valuation or book loss - it is a while since I practised accountancy - or a discount of more than 30%. I think that is a very generous deal for Glenbeigh. Maybe that is the value of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I understand the point about capital

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I understand Mr. Masding's point about the NPL situation, but in the documentation from the European Central Bank, reference is made to setting up a platform to sell NPLs more easily. The aspect that interests me and that makes people who have contacted us afraid is that the loans will be traded on and flipped. It might not happen instantly but, given the long duration of many of the loans,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Sale of Permanent TSB Mortgage Loans: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I appreciate Pepper is a service agent, but does Mr. Ryan agree that the transfer was done on favourable terms to Glenbeigh, given that the value was €1.3 billion but it was transferred for €890 million? In the original documents, PTSB suggested it would receive a bit more, namely, €910 million. It is a sharp transaction-----

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I support this Bill because I think people have to support the health professionals who have a conscientious commitment to caring for people and to providing care. We recognise the objections of the people who object, but equally we have to recognise the conscientious commitment of medical professionals to caring for women.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Since this debate began a very long time ago, it has always been clear on the part of people who objected to the eighth amendment and believed it put women's lives at risk and was not in the best interests of women and indeed children and Irish people that the right of conscientious objection was always recognised and given freely and generously. What I would say to people here who have...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I will return to some of the principles on which the repeal the eighth amendment campaign was fought and discussed by people up and down the country. The reason for bringing in the non-surgical method of taking a pill pre-12 weeks was to allow someone in a crisis pregnancy to have the issue addressed as safely as possible early in the pregnancy without the need for any kind of surgical...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the EU summit held on 25 November 2018. [50349/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister May since the EU summit on 25 November 2018 and to the other Heads of State. [50351/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Yesterday in the discussions in the British Parliament, Mrs. May stated the backstop would have to be short term. She stated the EU would not allow it to remain for long because the EU would not want the UK to have access to EU markets for an indeterminate period of time. The explanation by Mrs May, notwithstanding the enormous support we have received from other EU member countries, has to...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I would like to make a brief point about North-South relations in the context of what has been said about PIP assessments. I have seen the Ken Loach film mentioned. I admire Ken Loach and have seen his films during the years. The situation depicted in the film in question would never arise in Ireland. Deputies will recall that the main character had worked all of his life. He became a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff Remuneration (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 63. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been in consultation with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the outcome of the audit of pay restoration for section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43835/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 140. To ask the Minister for Health the impact on the national development plan of recent disclosures of serious problems in respect of publicly contracted building projects including health facilities; the amount of extra funding required to repair buildings; the impact of same on the overall spend on the national development plan; if he plans an additional Supplementary Estimate to meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the concerns raised by the European Commission relating to the taxation of intellectual property and its compliance with EU law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51066/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: First, this proposal regarding the amendment is completely flawed and inoperable, as has been said by other people.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The Deputies should give it further consideration and should consider withdrawing it. We are talking about children who become pregnant. This issue arose a lot during the debate on the repeal of the eighth amendment. The eighth amendment's powerlessness to assist a child of 12, 13, 14 or 15 years who became pregnant, either accidentally or through rape or incest, was most mentioned by...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: -----and surrounded not just by social workers and doctors but by lawyers as well. It is also very clearly designed to have a chilling effect on doctors-----

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: -----who are trying to do their best for their child patients.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I urge the movers of the amendment to reconsider its wisdom and that the terms it proposes are legally inoperable. I urge them to withdraw the amendment.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I repeat that I absolutely accept the right of the people who are opposed to repeal of the eighth amendment to be so opposed-----