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Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Small businesses are going out of business and the Tánaiste is waiting for a reply from the banks.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The covert surveillance Bill was promised by the Government in response to Deputy Rabbitte's Private Members' Bill on enhancing powers of electronic surveillance, which most people agree is needed. Has the Government approved that Bill and when will it be published? When I last asked about the Bill to take medical cards from the over 70s, I was told it would be published before the end of...

Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The country will be sunk.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position of the decentralisation programme for his Department; the cost to date; the cost of the temporary accommodation for officials and storage; the cost of travel due to officials having to travel to Dublin for Departmental business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40914/08]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of recreational areas or parks that have received funding from his Department or its agencies in each of the past five years; the criteria attached to such funding allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40913/08]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 25 September 2008, regarding the FÁS decision to close the jobs club in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that under the terms enshrined in the Jobs Club Operating Manual issued by the Employment Services Unit of FÁS...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to follow up on the Taoiseach's response to Deputy Kenny. Did I hear him correctly as saying the report received by the Minister for Finance from the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator arising from a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that the banks were in a sound position on 30 September, when the decision was made to introduce the guarantee scheme? If that is the case,...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not think the Taoiseach grasps the urgency of the situation facing small businesses and the people who work for them and who are concerned about losing their jobs. He outlined a process whereby reports from consultants are discussed by the Central Bank and considered by the Minister, business plans are submitted by the banks and decisions are made which perhaps will resolve the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: How will that be done in the short term? The Small Firms Association has made three suggestions to Government this week. It suggested the Government should establish a small business fund. I know we no longer have a State bank by which that could be done by the State. However, the Government should find some means by which a small business fund can be established so that businesses that...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the costs accrued to date by his Department arising from the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29630/08]

Tribunals of Inquiry. (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Even Homer nods.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank Deputy O'Caoláin for the courtesy. What the Taoiseach has just told us is astonishing. This tribunal has gone on for 11 years and I do not know how many days of public hearings it has held. A report is now being written and the Taoiseach is telling us there could be another round of public hearings some time in the new year. It is remarkable. Has any other tribunal or inquiry...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have two points to make. First, as I recall it, the McCracken tribunal made adverse findings and it did not beat about the bush in making these and submitting them to the Dáil. In its earlier reports, the Flood tribunal made adverse findings about people. I do not understand why the procedure the Taoiseach has outlined is being followed so rigorously in the case of the Moriarty tribunal...

Tribunals of Inquiry. (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On the Taoiseach's statement that the tribunals were established by the Oireachtas and that the Oireachtas always has options open to it, does he recall that when the Moriarty tribunal had been established for a short while, an issue arose over an alleged payment made to former Minister Ray Burke? This side of the House proposed that Mr. Justice Moriarty be allowed to have another module to...

International Terrorism. (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if the interdepartmental group established in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks to monitor the threat of terrorist attack is still functioning; the work programme of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32376/08]

International Terrorism. (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the National Security Committee addressed the issue of dissident republican groups? Does it liaise and co-operate with the international monitoring commission in Northern Ireland in respect of that matter? What is the assessment of the National Security Committee of the threats posed by dissident republican groups, in this State or throughout the island? Would the Taoiseach consider, or...

Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: In the budget the Minister for Finance announced the amalgamation or abolition of a number of State agencies, which I understand will involve the amendment of approximately 17 Acts. Having asked previously if it was intended to make these amendments in one Bill or separately, I am still unclear as to what are the Government's intentions in that regard. What are the Government's plans for...

Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When does the Taoiseach expect the implementation plans to be completed and available to Government? Arising from that, when will we have some indication as to what legislation will be introduced? Are the implementation plans to which the Taoiseach referred confined to the amalgamations announced in the budget or is it intended to go further than the budget announcement?

Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When will the Taoiseach move the writ for the Dublin South by-election?

Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach move the writ at all?