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Programme for Government. (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Normally in a coalition Government certain commitments in the programme for Government have a particular resonance for different parties in that Government. Let us say there is something in this programme for Government which the Green Party sought to have included in it. If the Green Party says it wants that commitment to go ahead because it is agreed in the programme for Government, will...

Programme for Government. (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I just want to know.

Programme for Government. (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It appears they will take anything. That is the point.

Programme for Government. (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If there is no functioning programme for Government, how does a minority party operate in Government?

Programme for Government. (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a cosy little arrangement.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: No. The Labour Party will not agree any Order of Business because of the way in which the Government proposes to abolish the Combat Poverty Agency. As I said yesterday, the Government has done this in the sneakiest and the most underhand way by including it as an amendment to the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. The agency is being dissolved and taken back into the social...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Many issues come before the House and when Members or members of the press or people with considerable power and influence or people who are well organised identify with them, there is a great racket about them but not many people in or around the Chamber have experience of poverty and perhaps do not identify as much with it as they should. If an agency dealing with any other area of life...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It does not.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to pursue the issue raised by Deputy Kenny, namely, the matter of the Bill which will result in the withdrawal of the medical card from pensioners.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Bill has not yet been published and we have not been told when it will be published.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Minister for Transport; that is very helpful. I understand the Government also intends to have the legislation enacted before Christmas. Including tomorrow, some ten Dáil sitting days remain until Christmas. It is clear what the Government intends to do and we know its form. It will try to introduce this legislation at the last minute, slip it through and then guillotine it...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I will come at it in a different way. They say one should never ask a question in the Dáil unless one already knows the answer. I wish to know the Government's plans to introduce the Bill to the House. When will Second and Committee Stages take place? Will the Government publish a schedule of business for the remainder of this session, up to Christmas time? There are three Dáil sitting...

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach knows very well he will not have co-operation, because we do not want it.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Here we are, with three weeks to go, and the legislation is not published.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He has not answered it. He did not say when it would be published. The last I heard was that it was to be before the end of the month.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is getting hungry.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach did not get his way on everything.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It does not work like that.

Order of Business (26 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What does that mean?