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Written Answers — Aquaculture Licences: Aquaculture Licences (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the annual aquaculture and foreshore licence fees (details supplied) due for both Ballynakill Bay, Connemara, County Galway and Freaghillaun Island, County Galway; if his Department has received licence payments for the site at Freaghillaun Island since 1987; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19158/09]

Written Answers — Aquaculture Licences: Aquaculture Licences (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amounts which should be paid by salmon aquaculture companies (details supplied), on an annual basis, in order to receive each of their aquaculture and foreshore licences; the amount each of these companies are in arrears by with respect to their licence fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19163/09]

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: One must still solve the problem. However, we would propose a clear out of the boards of management. They would not be run by the Department of Finance, as the Minister, Deputy Ryan, attempted to suggest, in the way that Irish Life was in its hey day as a successful commercial bank, 98% of which was State owned. There was no interference from Merrion Street in the way that financial house...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is the Government's proposed solutions that worry us.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It is the method of dealing with the issue we criticise.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: That is rich coming from Fianna Fáíl.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Exactly.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Hear, hear.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister has not read the motion. Nobody is proposing that.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Nobody has proposed what the Minister just asserted. He is wrong.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Irish Life & Permanent is not run by the Department of Finance. The Minister is wrong and does not know what he is talking about.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Irish Life & Permanent is not run by the Department of Finance.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The builders are in the Fianna Fáil cumainn.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Deputy should talk to his party's cumainn. He raised the issue.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: No we did not.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We were against its terms.

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: I propose to share the 30 minutes allocated with Deputies Jan O'Sullivan, Joe Costello, Joanna Tuffy and Kathleen Lynch. The Labour Party motion is not about ideology but methodology. The Labour Party does not wish to own the banks, we wish to fix them. The banks cannot fix themselves, as we have seen in the past nine months. We saw what took place today at the Allied Irish Bank annual...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: We have done so. I know a little about this territory but none of us knows enough. That is why we must work together. We are not about ideology, but about trying to fix the system. We wish to return the banks to private ownership in due course. The Labour Party has made this proposal elsewhere and I will speak on the matter very briefly. The country's international reputation has been...

Banking System: Motion (Resumed) (13 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: It solves the problem in this way. One could then argue there is no legal problem because the developers who had loans with banks X, Y and Z still have the loans with those banks. The legal relationship between the borrower and the lender would not be changed in any way and could not be challenged. There is good property expertise in the banking system and it could evaluate the real and...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (12 May 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he will take to combat the digital divide; if he is satisfied that persons who wish to learn how to use the Internet across broad sections of society have an opportunity to learn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18709/09]