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EU Summits: Supplementary Questions. (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received the agenda for the June 2008 summit of EU leaders; his priorities for the summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14620/08]

EU Summits: Supplementary Questions. (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The position is that a number of states have yet to ratify and we do not know whether they will proceed with ratification and what the outcome of their ratification processes will be. However, let us say we end up in a situation where all of the remaining states have ratified and one has not. Has the Taoiseach taken any legal advice as to what our situation will be at that point in...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This country is now facing some very big problems. We were in here earlier this afternoon talking about the aftermath of the rejection of the Lisbon treaty. We are now probably facing the biggest diplomatic challenge since the Second World War. Last week the live register went above the 200,000 mark. We have seen the biggest increase in unemployment over the last year in 40 years. Jobs...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not want to talk down the economy, nor do I want to return to days of high unemployment or rising emigration. Neither do I want to see the type of terror we witnessed on the faces of families whose homes were about to be repossessed. However, there is a difference between talking it down and ignoring it. It seems the Government is in denial. The economy is in a serious situation, and...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There just cannot be a "business as usual" response to this, with the Government closing the Dáil and heading off into conclave to discuss Estimates and a budget over the period of the summer and early autumn. This is public business that affects the lives of the people it and needs to be conducted in public. I know there is a certain ritual every year as regards when the Dáil closes and...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is not answering the question.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is not answering the question. He is making the type of speech we should be having——

Order of Business (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Kenny that there is an air of unreality about this. Last Thursday saw one of the most significant decisions made by the country. Now we have an Order of Business in front of us and a schedule for the week that proposes to blithely carry on regardless, with no debate on that decision. This issue, as Deputy Kenny said, is being discussed in every capital in Europe. If it...

Order of Business (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am sure it has not escaped the Taoiseach's notice that same-sex marriage is now being introduced in the State of California. Where is the proposed civil unions Bill which we were to see here before the end of March?

Dáil Sittings: Motion (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: That Dáil Éireann conscious of the many serious social and economic issues facing the country, including: the most rapid rise in unemployment ever recorded with live register figures having again gone through the 200,000 barrier; the deteriorating economic situation reflected in the most recent Exchequer figures; the serious problems being created for hauliers, fishermen and others...

Dáil Sittings: Motion (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed in the motion that Dáil Éireann should not adjourn for the summer recess until 24 July at the earliest and return in early September. The country faces four major problems, the first of which is the economy. Once the pride of Europe and the envy of the world, the economy is now heading towards recession. In the past year unemployment has risen by the highest numbers in 40...

Dáil Sittings: Motion (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We have already seen some of these cuts taking place. I refer to the decision not to proceed with and the delay in proceeding with services for the homeless. We have seen people with disabilities unable to get the carers they were promised 12 months ago. We are already seeing that those who are least able to bear the pain and those who should be least asked to bear the pain are the first...

Dáil Sittings: Motion (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will publish his cost benefit analysis on the recently announced new tranche of public private partnerships for the National Roads Authority's national road maintenance and building programmes; the amount the new round of PPPs will cost; if projected savings through the PPP programme will be reallocated to the repair of secondary and...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has been briefed by the National Roads Authority on the status of the roll out of the network of motorway rest and service areas on the national urban road system; the target completion date and location for the first group of rest and service areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23287/08]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (17 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public bodies here and so on who have been fined or had penalties imposed on them in the past three years; the cost related to them for non-compliance with EU and Irish tendering legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22731/08]

Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I want the Taoiseach to picture a primary school. Looking at a primary school in this country today, the first thing that would strike him is the number of prefabs. There is a clutter of prefabs in school yards, as well as prefab extensions. Sometimes the entire school is a prefab. The Labour Party spokesperson on education, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, had been asking the previous Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Does he agree that there is now a solution to this problem? We know there is a downturn in residential construction. We are being told that by the end of 2009 something like 65,000 jobs will have been lost in this sector, so there is now a capacity to build schools. Now that there is a slowdown in residential construction, which has the same skill set as that required for the building of...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I asked the Taoiseach a very simple question, which I thought was not that difficult to answer. I asked him about pre-fabs and primary schools. However, he talked about primary and secondary schools, teachers, hedge schools——

Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——anything to hedge away from giving an answer.