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Housing: Motion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He may soon be in the Seanad for a lot longer than he wants to be.

Housing: Motion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Minister is doing it, why do we have the highest number of people on the housing list since almost the time the Minister was born? It is at the same level as 1964.

Housing: Motion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That year saw the highest number of people waiting on council houses. With regard to the multi-purpose legislation, the Labour Party has been asking the Government to introduce legislation to address problems with management companies, fees and the running of these apartment blocks for years. We are still waiting for it.

Housing: Motion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Frankly——

Housing: Motion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government regularly accuses the Opposition of not putting forward positive suggestions. We have a number of positive suggestions in this motion that will deal with the housing problems people are experiencing today. We have not said anything unduly critical of the Government in the motion and yet a blinkered, arrogant and out of touch Government has decided to amend it from existence...

Housing: Motion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——back-clapping amendment that is worthless to the people in need of housing but will somehow provide some kind of political comfort rag to the Government in its dying days.

Written Answers — Light Rail Projects: Light Rail Projects (17 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the development of light rail systems for Cork, Limerick and Galway; if he will publish the feasibility studies for each of the projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46349/08]

Written Answers — Light Rail Projects: Light Rail Projects (17 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on progress on the big dig infrastructure works necessary in Dublin city centre to facilitate the construction of metro north, the Luas link-up and the Dublin rail interconnector; if adjustments have been made to the contingency plans of the big dig in view of the reports on the deferral of the Luas Line BX; the stakeholders...

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party is also opposed to the Order of Business for the same reasons stated by Deputy Kenny. If a major national announcement is to be made in Dublin Castle today, it should be made in the House. All major announcements of national significance are made in the House. This is where the Budget Statement is made and where the major statements on Northern Ireland have been made...

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If we look back over the various jamborees we have had, we can take any document in recent years——

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——and if it has been announced in Dublin Castle, it is not worth the paper on which it is written. Where is Transport 21, for example? That was announced in Dublin Castle.

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Where is the document on public service reform? Even the national development plan is now a work of fiction.

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If it is announced in Dublin Castle, it is a public relations stunt.

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If it does turn out to be a major document and a statement of major national significance——

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——it should be announced in the House.

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If it is a major national statement and made in Dublin Castle, I will be asking the Ceann Comhairle to have the Committee on Procedure and Privileges examine its appropriateness. It is not acceptable that the Government makes announcements there on the economy, for example. This has been built up as something tantamount to a Budget Statement. If it is of that significance, it should be...

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I support Deputy Kenny's proposal that the House should resume on 7 January. There is no justification for it to adjourn until 27 January. As I noted yesterday, the long recesses in January go back to a time when the budget was announced at the end of January. The argument was that the Government needed time to prepare the budget. However, this no longer applies.

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: A range of things are happening. For example, the Government is only providing 65 minutes today to debate the issue of bank recapitalisation. Although the document on the economic recovery programme will be published this afternoon, the House will not have an opportunity to debate it until 27 January. Moreover, the severe cuts in the health service about which Members have heard could have...

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish the Ceann Comhairle and all his staff, the staff and Members of the House and the members of the press who report our business a very happy Christmas. It is probably tempting fate to wish anybody a prosperous new year but I wish everybody the best for the new year. This session has been quite long since our return after the summer. All Deputies,...

Order of Business (18 Dec 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Bah, humbug.