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Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: No, they are not, we do not get provincial newspapers in Dublin until Friday. This week last year, the Government voted down a Labour Party Private Members' motion to restore to the Order Paper the Labour Party Private Members' Bill on civil unions. The Government promised it would introduce its own legislation. Some time ago it published the heads of a Bill but we have not heard anything...

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This is an important matter.

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not trying to change the Standing Orders. Who is trying to change measures which were approved by this House?

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Do we have a situation whereby the Government tells the public that the banks will be liable if a bank goes under and tells the banks that the public is liable?

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Who pays if a bank goes under?

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is important.

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not think it is mutual.

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to thank all the Deputies who have contributed to this debate. In particular, I pay tribute to my colleague, Deputy Quinn, for tabling the motion and presenting the Labour Party's case on this issue. As I listened to the debate, I was thinking about a primary school in County Cork that I visited some weeks before the budget. It is a school of 245 pupils, all of them accommodated in...

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: One of the things that struck me during that visit was a young teacher who became quite emotional as we stood in his classroom in the prefab building. He tried to explain to me what it is like to be in that room on a cold, wet Monday morning in winter. He had to try to make the children comfortable and get them warm before thinking about teaching them. He told me what it was like to be in...

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——about how teachers should be more flexible and change the way they do things. The people who need to change the way they do things——

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——include the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who has become more out of touch in 15 or 16 months in Government than Fianna Fáil did in 11 years. I met the principal of that school yesterday evening when she was up here for the protest. I expected her to talk to me about the school buildings, but instead she spoke about school books. Her school was one of the beneficiaries of the book...

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: How does he justify cutting 8% from the budget for youth services at a time when society is concerned about what is happening on our streets? We need to provide worthwhile activities for our young people. Deputy Frank Fahey challenged me and the Labour Party about where we would get the money. I have two answers to that. First, the Government is not making savings at all because down the...

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——that it builds incinerators which it told people it was never going to allow build or that it allows prisoners to continue to be rendered through some of our airports? The Green Party is dead; the Green Party is beaten and this is a sad day for this country. However, the Green Party has an opportunity to recover and to redeem itself. The Green Party can make a stand here today. This...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of funding allocated to the national reserve in 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number of farmers who have benefited under each category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37440/08]

Written Answers — Food Labelling: Food Labelling (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the regulations and controls in place and the checks carried out by his officials in the meat factories on lamb imports and specifically the labels attached or placed on importers' labels when leaving factories here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37441/08]

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referenda the Government plans to hold over the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29632/08]

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach consult with Opposition party leaders in advance of the December summit? Will he say whether there is any provision in the Estimates and the budget for the holding of a referendum in 2009? The question relates not just to whether there will be another referendum on Europe, but to referendums in general. What is the position in relation to the holding of a referendum on...

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Am I to understand from that response that the Taoiseach has confirmed no financial provision has been made for the holding of a referendum in 2009 and that the position, therefore, is that the Government has no plans to hold a referendum on any matter in 2009?

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach referred to the consequences of the referendum decision on the Lisbon treaty. One of those consequences was that Irish citizens do not have access to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which would have been part of the Lisbon treaty, had it been ratified. That would have provided Irish citizens, in European law, with a right to housing. Has the Taoiseach or the Government...

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: In regard to amending the Constitution, we had the All- Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, which produced ten or 11 reports, the last of which was produced in January 2006. That process appears to have run out of steam. Very few of the recommendations for constitutional change made by the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution appear to have been given effect. What...