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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Michael Noonan: ...analogous to that, rents are increasing because there is not a sufficient supply for apartments and houses to rent. It is all part of the same market failure in the housing and development sector. We are where we are, which is the cliché that is always used to describe these circumstances but we know how we arrived there as well. As I said previously, as well as implementing the...

Recent Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (5 Oct 2011)

Michael Noonan: -----there must be rules of the game. We are where we are because the rules were not put in place when the currency was implemented.

Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Noonan: ...Service had been rushed into estimating the cost of the measure a couple of days before the budget. It did not have time to do a proper calculation. This system has a fairly ragged history, but we are where we are. The Minister would have been as well off to abandon it completely when she had to pull it back to such an extent under pressure from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party....

Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)

Michael Noonan: ...who fail the means test would have their own homes. However, for those paying rent, that rent should be taken into account as a reduction on the means. I thank the Minister for her explanation. We are where we are and in the interest of trying to improve the mandate for the elderly I ask her to take some of my suggestions into account and table amendments.