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		<title>Bankers homes not fit for social housing purposes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minister of State for Planning Ciarán Cuffe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plan to seize the luxury homes of bankers and developers and give them to people on the housing waiting list has been shelved as the homes don&#8217;t meet minimum standards requirements.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t just place people anywhere,&#8221; a civil service source said. &#8220;Many of these luxury homes do not meet Social Housing Design Standards.&#8221;
Some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank crisis inquiry to proceed with &#8216;mental reservation&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mire understands that Fianna Fail and Green Party negotiators have reached a compromise that will allow some elements of the inquiry into the banking crisis to be heard in public.
The impasse was broken early this morning when it was apparently agreed that witnesses giving evidence in public would be encouraged to use the &#8220;mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New era dawns as banks refer to customers as victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mire has learned that the interim financial watchdog is to reform the language of banking as an initial step in trying to change the behaviour of banks.
&#8220;Most bankers don&#8217;t think they did anything wrong,&#8221; a spokesman said. &#8220;By changing the language of banking we believe bankers will come to accept that what they do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union fights for jobs of staff who don&#8217;t work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sources on both sides of the Bank of Ireland pay dispute have admitted that reaching resolution on the issue is unlikely unless it can be established what the staff involved actually do for a living.
A leading banker told The Mire that the fundamentals of banking had changed so much recently that it was by no [...]]]></description>
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