Results 381-393 of 393 for speaker:George Lee
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)
George Lee: We all know that many people involved in corporate law are waiting to see what happens in the financial services area because of so much money being lost there.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)
George Lee: It is stated that the purpose of the company law (consolidation and reform) Bill is to clarify, simplify and modernise Irish company law. In regard to that legislation, is it likely that there will be any attempt to speed up the process in which the law will be applied so that we do not have to wait ten years for people to be brought to justice for the kinds of fraud which have taken place?
- Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)
George Lee: In respectof the urgency of this debate, the Central Statistics Office has just reported that in the past 12 months 160,000 jobs have been wiped out and that the economic debate on this is much more important and more urgent.
- Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)
George Lee: We have never lost so many jobs for so many people in so short a time and the idea that-----
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
George Lee: Similar to Deputy Burton, I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the consumer and competition Bill. Approximately ten years ago, it was discovered that the National Irish Bank was stealing money from customers' accounts on a wholesale basis. The theft was identified in internal audit reports and was the subject of a journalistic investigation in which my colleague, Charlie Bird, and I were...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
George Lee: My question is on the consumer and competition Bill, which will amalgamate the consumer agency and the Competition Authority, and the financial services regulation Bill, which will modernise financial services legislation in accordance with the new situation. To what extent or how can consumers be protected by the legislation from banks that want to steal money in the fashion outlined?
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
George Lee: Will the modernisation of the financial services regulation Bill include any measures-----
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)
George Lee: Will it include measures to ensure that it will not take ten years to pursue the people involved as it does now?
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)
George Lee: My question concerns the legislation on the National Assets Management Agency, which is in preparation. The legislation and the idea of NAMA came from the report of an economic consultant, Peter Bacon, on dealing with the banking crisis. As the Taoiseach is aware, it is probably the biggest potential liability for taxpayers that we have ever taken on. Thus, we must proceed with a great...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)
George Lee: I thank everybody for the warm welcome I received yesterday from all sides of the House. It is a privilege to be here, of which I am conscious. I am here on the basis of a strong mandate from the people of south Dublin to speak on their behalf and on behalf of other people whom they represent, a role which I take very seriously. The last couple of weeks have been a complete change of life...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)
George Lee: Thank you, Deputy Ring.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)
George Lee: The mandate this Government claims for itself is not real. It has the same mandate as I to speak on the people's behalf and to work to make things better. I acknowledge it wants to do that as much as I do. Fianna Fáil has an agreement to govern with the Green Party and a group of Independent Deputies based on what people thought would be fair weather in terms of our economic performance....
- Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)
George Lee: Nobody will follow somebody whom he or she does not trust, it is impossible to do so. That is why I believe it is so important to have a change of Government because we need leadership and we need to do the hard things. It is a fact that doing the hard things is what the Government thinks it is getting the blame for; I believe that doing the hard things is what the Government should have...