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Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: When will the National Pensions Reserve Fund Bill be published? Will that Bill be published and brought through the House before recapitalisation? I understand this is the Bill which allows the National Pensions Reserve Fund to be used for recapitalisation so it would appear logical that it would have to be enacted before recapitalisation.

Dublin South By-Election: Motion (3 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: That the Ceann Comhairle direct the Clerk of the Dáil to issue his writ for the election of a Member to fill the vacancy which has occurred in the membership of the present Dáil consequent on the death of Deputy Séamus Brennan, a Member for the constituency of Dublin South. I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Snodaigh. Seamus Brennan was one of the most respected and admired...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the target times that apply to the processing of jobseeker payments. [3230/09]

Written Answers — Social Insurance Fund: Social Insurance Fund (3 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she will take to ensure that the social insurance fund is kept in surplus. [3225/09]

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has informed the House, in response to Deputy Kenny, that the country now has the highest number of people unemployed ever in our history, with almost 328,000 people unemployed. Last week I asked the Taoiseach what was the cost to the Exchequer of additional people being unemployed, between social welfare payments and lost tax revenues. The Taoiseach sent me a reply, which I...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If we continue to lose jobs at the current rate, the Government will not be able to keep up in terms of cutting public expenditure. The social welfare cost alone of the people who lost their jobs last year is the €1.4 billion that must be paid in the pension levy. Every additional job lost will cost €20,000. The Taoiseach spoke about the need to get some kind of consensual approach to...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a fundamental flaw in the Taoiseach's approach to this matter and it is in this regard that I basically disagree with him. The shorthand version of this approach to our problems appears to be that we should stabilise the public finances and the economy will recover. With the greatest respect, I am of the view that it will have to be the other way around — stabilise the economy...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is because jobs are being lost.

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the advisers, press officers, or other non-Civil Service staff appointed by him since 7 May 2008 and the duties of each; the annual salary costs for such staff; if this group of staff will be subject to the 3% reduction in payroll costs announced in July 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38355/08]

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We all accept the Taoiseach and Ministers require staff in their private offices to do the job that has to be done and respond to public enquires and so on. We also accept there is a necessity for policy advisers to provide advice of a political nature to Ministers. I do not know why there is a necessity to have the numbers we now have. It is a mystery as the Government has been in office...

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach can confine his answer to staff in the Taoiseach's office and Minister of State.

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Regarding the 10% reduction in costs the Taoiseach says will now apply to the offices of Ministers and Ministers of State, I am sure it is an issue to which we can return in the course of time to see how it is going. I wish the Taoiseach would take up every suggestion and good idea from the Labour Party as enthusiastically as he appears to have endorsed and absorbed the one from 1992.

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The final question I asked the Taoiseach concerned Senator Boyle's——

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It was a very good idea.

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to hear what the Taoiseach——

Departmental Staff. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to hear what the Taoiseach has to say, privately or publicly, about it.

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting on 17 October 2008 with a delegation from the Democratic Unionist Party. [36581/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting on 17 October 2008 with a delegation from Sinn Féin. [36582/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 21: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation in the seventh plenary meeting of the North South Ministerial Council held in Derry on 23 January 2009. [3044/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (4 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach his plans for the future of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3142/09]