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Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste's reply is a description of a failure of the Government. There is a national homeless strategy in existence. The different agencies got together and agreed how all of this would be tied up. The Tánaiste has described a failure of the Government to co-ordinate it and make it happen. The fact is that beds for homeless people have been provided and they are available, but they...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask about the promised legislation on windfall taxes on property developers and land speculators. I again remind the Tánaiste that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government promised this legislation when he addressed a meeting of the Irish Planning Institute in Westport. He said that he had the support of his Cabinet colleagues for the measure and that it had been...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There was no question of examination when the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government spoke in Westport. He said that he intended to bring in new legislation to tap into windfall gains made by landowners and property developers. He said that the Attorney General had found a way around the constitutional difficulties with windfall taxes and that such a measure now had the...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Nothing could be clearer today than that the Minister has been put in his place by the Tánaiste. I regret that because I support the Minister's position on this and would like to see the legislation progressed. This is a very bad start for the Tánaiste and if he treats the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government like that this week, how will he treat him next week?

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (30 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that all appropriate retraining opportunities are available for workers who lose their jobs, especially in the construction sector; if he has plans to provide additional training opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16553/08]

Written Answers — Services Sector: Services Sector (30 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the figures showing a decline in business activity in the services sector in the first three months of 2008, especially having regard to the potential impact on employment; if he will take steps to ensure that this trend is reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16552/08]

Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Where is the rest of the Cabinet?

Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: They cannot all be cleaning out their desks.

Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Does the Minister expect to be here every Thursday morning? He gave a reply to Deputy Varadkar yesterday concerning credit card surcharges. There was a commitment in the programme for Government that there would be a ban on surcharges on credit card payments for booking tickets for flights, matches and so on. In his reply to the Deputy yesterday, the Minister said that it cannot be done and...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (1 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the leaking of correspondence from staff in his Department in relation to preparations for the referendum on the Lisbon treaty. [16837/08]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (1 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is satisfied that efforts have been made that would enable persons displaced from their homes, villages and farms during the conflict in Kosovo to return; his views on the fact that international agencies are regarded as not having exercised sufficient efforts to achieve this aim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16836/08]

Nomination of Taoiseach (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an dTaoiseach nua atá tofa ag an Dáil. Is onóir mór é don Teachta Cowen, a chlann, a chairde agus a chosmhuintir i gContae Uibh Fháilí. Glacaim leis gur duine an-chumasach agus an-chliste é. Guím ádh mór air go pearsanta i leith na dualgais Stáit agus phobail a bheidh air amach anseo. I congratulate the Tánaiste, Deputy Cowen, on...

Nomination of Taoiseach (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He might get the call yet.

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I support Deputy Kenny's proposal. What we are doing here concerning the election of a Government is a very important constitutional function whereby the elected Members — the 166 people who have been sent to this House by the people of the country — effectively transfer executive authority from the Dáil to the members of the Government. We have spent the last month paying tributes and...

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I therefore support Deputy Kenny's proposal that the time be extended by one hour. It is a reasonable request and one to which the new Taoiseach could readily agree.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I congratulate the Members nominated for appointment by the President to the Government. In particular, I congratulate the new Ministers, for whom it is a great day. I congratulate my constituency colleagues, the Minister, Deputy Hanafin, who has retained a position in the Cabinet, and Deputy Barry Andrews, who will be appointed. I join in the tributes paid to the former Minister, Deputy...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a condition in which small acts of kindness by the captor are magnified by the one who has been captivated. An untold story of the formation of the Government is that of the shameful collaboration by the Green Party on the day the Government was formed in putting in order the paperwork for a motorway through Tara.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister and his people telephoned the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government repeatedly.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister could not wait, he was in so much contact with the——

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He should.