Burke, Ray

Tuesday, 2 December 1986

Dáil Eireann Debate
Vol. 370 No. 5

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Order of Business.

In case there is any misunderstanding about the view of the Opposition on the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, I wish to remind the Taoiseach that I raised this matter on a number of occasions...More Button

Private Members' Business. - Building Societies (Amendment) Bill, 1986: Committee Stage.

It is very interesting to note that in the first response the Minister makes to the first amendment to this legislation, he does a complete climb down on all the reasons he gave for the introduction o...More Button

I support the views of my colleague, Deputy Jim Tunney. It was interesting to hear the Minister again trotting out his hoary old chestnut of the big bad wolf of one society leading the way with an an...More Button

The trouble is he will be staying in that constituency for the next Dáil, and probably the Dáil afterwards.More Button

Could the Minister give us an illustration of the type of situation under which this amendment would operate?More Button

Here we come to the interesting powers the Minister is taking unto himself, the purpose for which loans can be made. This is apparently designed specifically to enable the societies to provide bridgi...More Button

I am glad the Minister has clarified that because if it is as broad as the Minister is now outlining, I see no difficulty whatsoever and would welcome it. It is important that the societies should be...More Button

We agree. Question put and agreed to. SECTION 4.More Button

We discussed this on Second Stage. I will accept the amendments and then we can get on to my amendment. Amendment agreed to.More Button

I move amendment No. 5: In page 3, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following subsection: “(4) That the effect of subsections (1), (2) and (3) will not be that by removing the premium rate, the ...More Button

No, amendment No. 6 is different. I will take amendment No. 5 on its own. It is dealing with section 4. I am afraid the Minister is walking into a situation where he says that he is against tiered r...More Button

I am sorry the Minister will not accept this amendment because I have no doubt that the proposal in the bald terms in which it is made by the Minister to abolish the tiered interest rates will have th...More Button

The Minister on two occasions referred to recent meetings he had with societies outside the IBSA and who are not members of that association. He considers that their views should be the final word in ...More Button

I move amendment No. 6:More Button

If we are writing into the Bill the abolition of the charges and the making available of valuation certificates and changes in the legal fees, I see no reason why we should not also write into the Bil...More Button

It may not be the Minister's intention that the effect of this proposal to abolish redemption charges, the making available of valuations, changes in the insurance option and legal fees will be extra ...More Button

This is general.More Button

If that is the Minister's politest way of doing it, I would hate to hear him if he were being insulting.More Button

I will not follow the Minister down that road. What I am proposing here is related directly to the abolition of the redemption fees, the making available of valuations, the insurance option, legal fe...More Button

If the Minister can give the assurance that building societies will increase their income by so much as a result of section 3, that they will be so efficient in relation to their operation and their m...More Button

We will put the amendment at this stage.More Button

I do not like the thrust of the amendment but I do not think we can change the Minister's mind on it because the voting strength of the Government would be used against us as on other occasions. Amend...More Button

Agreed.More Button

This is merely a change from what is in section 96 of the Principal Act.More Button

Why did the Minister drop the bodies in the advisory council such as the Central Bank, a representative of the IBSA, a representative of the Department of Finance and a representative of the Departmen...More Button

I will withdraw it when we are in power. Amendment agreed to.More Button

Private Members' Business. - Building Societies (Amendment) Bill, 1986: Fifth Stage.

I accept that the Bill be passed at this stage, but I must say I am fearful of some of the conditions in it. While I take the Minister as being well intentioned in regard to some of them, there are ot...More Button

We will hold you to that.More Button

Private Members' Business. - Sellafield Nuclear Plant: Motion.

I move: That Dáil Éireann, concerned about the repeated accidents at, and continuing discharges from, the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant and conscious of the dangerous threat it poses to the li...More Button

Written Answers. - Darcystown (Dublin) Sewerage Scheme.

asked the Minister for the Environment if he will give immediate sanction to allow work to commence on the sewerage scheme in Darcystown, County Dublin.More Button

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