This Week in the Houses of the Oireachtas 29 October - 2 November 2012

[C. Flower]

Dail adjourned until next Tuesday -

Questions and Order Papers, Bills etc. via the Oireachtas Site

Live Webcasts

See also: Order Papers and Questions, Dáil Order of Business, and the Committee Schedule
Live Webcasts of the Plenary Sessions and Parliamentary Committees

Last updated Friday 26 October 2012 at 17.00

Dáil Eireann adjourned until Tuesday 6 November 2012 at 2.00 p.m.



Seanad Eireann adjourned until Wednesday 7 November 2012 at 2.30 p.m.

Wednesday 31 October 2012

Committee Meetings

Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform CR4, LH 2000 10 a.m. (T) AGENDA: Session 1: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Overview of operations and functioning of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited (IBRC) [Representatives from IBRC]; and
Session 2: 2 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.
Overview of operations and functioning of Allied Irish Banks (AIB) [Representatives from AIB]

Public Accounts CR1, LH 2000 2 p.m. (T) AGENDA: (i) Public sector allowances [Officials from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU)]; and
(ii) 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government – Review of allowances [Secretary General, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government]
Thursday 1 October 2012

Committee Meetings

Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform CR3, LH 2000 10.30 a.m. (T) AGENDA: Overview of operations and functioning of Bank of Ireland (BOI) [Representatives from BOI]

Public Accounts CR1, LH 2000 2 p.m. (T) AGENDA: (i) Business of the Committee; and
(ii) 2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General Vote 20: An Garda Síochána – Review of allowances [Mr. Martin Callinan, Commissioner, An Garda Síochána]
Bills Scheduled for Consideration this Week

Committees

Committees Tuesday
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Committees Wednesday
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Committees Thursday
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Report Stage Business planned for Scheduling in Dáil Éireann

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No Bills Scheduled

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No Bills Scheduled

PROVISIONAL LISTING OF BILLS FOR DÁIL SELECT COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION

** Week commencing 5 November 2012

Europol Bill 2012 (Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, Wednesday, 7 November at 2 p.m. in Committee Room 2 - subject to referral].

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 (Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Thursday, 8 November at 9.30 a.m. in Committee Room 4)

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012 (Select sub-Committee on Health Friday, 9 November at 10 a.m. in Committee Room 2)


** Week commencing 12 November 2012

No Bills Scheduled

Please Note re Committee Meetings
All Committees listed are Joint Committees except when marked with an (S) = Select, or Public Accounts which is a Dáil Standing Committee.


(T) = To be televised; (S) = Select; (M) = Multi-media presentation; (V) = Video Conferencing

[DCon]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X7RyGBq2E8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X7RyGBq2E8[/ame]

[Dr. FIVE]

Dukes & co in room 4 now,

NAMA in the PAC at 2pm

[C. Flower]

RTE managed to spin "It could come out better or worse (IRBC)" into - it will probably come out better.

I'm almost at the point of deciding to go with the flow and move into lala land.

[Dr. FIVE]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3YkCWJIMXE"]Questioning Richie Boucher, November 1, 2012. - YouTube[/ame]

[Dr. FIVE]

O_o

[PaddyJoe]

Jesus. How much is Boucher's termination package going to cost us?

[PaddyJoe]

That's an absolutely stunning clip. At least IRBC and AIB made some kind of pretence of going along with the charade. It looks like Boucher has had enough.
He must be under a lot of pressure from the US venture funds that the bank was given to for half nothing. I guess they have their own guy lined up as his successor.
Lets not forget that BOI pulled Noonan's chestnuts out of the fire at the last moment when his negotiation with the ECB over the Anglo prom notes in March came to naught.
That 3 billion advance from BOI is going to have to be renegotiated around June next year.

[C. Flower]

http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/20...pension-funds/

How the banks took over 1 billion of the bailout and put it into their pension funds.

[DCon]

That's an absolutely stunning clip. At least IRBC and AIB made some kind of pretence of going along with the charade. It looks like Boucher has had enough.
He must be under a lot of pressure from the US venture funds that the bank was given to for half nothing. I guess they have their own guy lined up as his successor.
Lets not forget that BOI pulled Noonan's chestnuts out of the fire at the last moment when his negotiation with the ECB over the Anglo prom notes in March came to naught.
That 3 billion advance from BOI is going to have to be renegotiated around June next year.

Ross on Boucher

He is a hard bastard with a hide like a rhino.

On the banks

Even today, there are predators hovering over the balance sheets of the two basket cases. As they sit and watch the Irish Government pumping more money into the duo, they are wondering with glee at the prospects of the taxpayer being bled to death in the cause of bringing these banks back to life. They will watch and wait until both patients are restored to good health, back in profit, the competition having fled home to the UK or further afield. Then they will pounce. Then they will plunder. They will buy into a tailor-made cartel.

Happy days will be here again, less than a decade after the bank guarantee. Richie Boucher will be in charge of the Bank of Ireland. The other half of the new cartel -- AIB -- will be run by one of the old guard restored to his former glory.

Two pillar banks, funded by the taxpayer, have eyeballed the Government. The Government blinked first with the guarantee, second when it decided to subsidise their recovery. It is still blinking. Next stop, the Government will sell the duopoly -- stuffed with taxpayers' money -- to overseas vultures. New invaders will beggar the captured Irish customers. Deja vu.

Richard Boyd Barrett, the socialist from Dun Laoghaire, is right. The only way to put manners on these boys is to nationalise them.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...g-3281773.html

[C. Flower]

Noonan says the can do nothing about this because of the law. What kind of fools do he thing we are, that we don't know that the Government makes the law, and can change it ?

[Dr. FIVE]

Thought he has power here since the 2011 Finance Act. The Troika wrote in some extraordinary control for the Finance Minister there no?

Surely something here given the stakeholding the state has too. Noonan needs to challenged here, if only to expose the Fine Gael attitude

[C. Flower]

Thought he has power here since the 2011 Finance Act. The Troika wrote in some extraordinary control for the Finance Minister there no?

Surely something here given the stakeholding the state has too. Noonan needs to challenged here, if only to expose the Fine Gael attitude

Agree. It could be done by a getting most of it back via a windfall tax, if not by preventing payment.

[Dr. FIVE]

taxing it is sure the way so the net is cast beyond the one or two cases.

It's obscene

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

Michael Noonan could windfall tax any bonus system in the country tomorrow morning if he chose to do so.

He does have the authority to do so. By saying there is nothing he can do is ignoring his own fairly wide-reaching powers.