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Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Kenny regarding the reduction in interest rates. That all of the main central banks in the world co-operated yesterday is unprecedented. It is the first time we have seen major international regulation and control of banking. The mortgage holder, the business that has a loan from a bank, and the customers of banks should benefit from that. It would be unthinkable for...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The second matter that I want to raise relates to information of which we were made aware this morning. I refer to the Private Residential Tenancies Board and the fact that 100 cases have been struck down because the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government improperly, inappropriately and, as it turns out, illegally, appointed two county councillors to the board of the...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We are dealing with the Order of Business. I want to ask that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government come into the House today to explain that decision. Cronyism is not new in Fianna Fáil but we now have incompetent cronyism——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to know whether the Minister will come to the House to explain why these appointments were made and account for something that has caused quite serious problems for the Private Residential Tenancies Board.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has told us that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, did not receive the advice given in June to the effect that he was not entitled to appoint county councillors to the Private Residential Tenancies Board. I again ask if he will come before the House today to explain these appointments——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——and tell us what advice——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——caused him to appoint a Fianna Fáil councillor from County Donegal and a Green Party councillor from County Monaghan to the PRTB.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: As Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh might say, there are big residential tenancies markets in both counties.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: These were utterly improper appointments.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister come before the House or will he make a statement now?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will he make a statement?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We have a report on the PRTB.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Does he want to make a statement?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order, it has been a long-standing practice that when a Minister does something improper, he makes a statement and answers questions in the House. This week we received a report from Threshold indicating a huge increase in the number of illegal evictions.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This is something which affects people. The PRTB made 100 decisions which have been struck down and I want the Minister to make a statement.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This is not something——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Why did the Minister appoint county councillors from County Donegal and County Monaghan——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——to the Private Residential Tenancies Board, even though he had no authority to do so?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I apologise. Is the Minister replying to the question I raised earlier?