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Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (10 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he will take to ensure that households that are not covered by the national broadband scheme and that do not benefit from any proposed upgrading of exchanges will be able to access broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4538/09]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (10 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the expected publication date of the draft policy paper on next generation broadband networks; if he will implement the value for money and policy review of phase one of the MANs programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4537/09]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (10 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 574: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will describe and list the forms and nature of assistance provided in State examinations to students with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4266/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 586: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in a school building project (details supplied) in County Dublin; if he will allow the building work to proceed; the timetable for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4307/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 629: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm receipt of requests from the board of management of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 seeking approval for the building of a sports hall; when the school will receive a reply from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4654/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 630: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive approval for their application for a permanent building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4656/09]

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: On 30 September the Labour Party stood alone and opposed the blanket guarantee the Government proposed for the banks. We did so because we believed we were not being told the full story and that the taxpayer was not being told what was involved with that guarantee. It turns out we did not know the half of it. It turns out on that very day, Irish Life & Permanent was shuffling €4 billion...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The bank moved €7 billion by way of a loan into Anglo Irish Bank to make the latter's accounts look good.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It was effectively a financial three card trick, the dig out to beat all dig outs. Why would it not do so? There was no risk involved for the bank, because the taxpayer was taking the risk. It could lend Anglo Irish Bank billions of euro. It was our money and if it went wrong, we would pick it up. The Government could impose some more levies on working people to get it back. It appears...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The former chief executive of the Financial Regulator, which was supposed to be keeping an eye on all of this for us, now walks off with an enormous golden handshake. The Government, which presided over all of this, imposes levy after levy on hard working people to pay for this largesse. Does the Taoiseach have any idea of the degree of anger which exists among people, especially working...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is unbelievable that at the very time it was introducing a blanket guarantee, the Government was not aware such inter-bank lending arrangements were taking place before our very eyes. The Taoiseach made a very interesting comment on the day of the bank guarantee, to which I refer. The Taoiseach stated he would expect that the banks would help each other out. I remember that comment,...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Did the Government encourage the payment of these loans, or what was the extent of its knowledge of the position? When did it first come to the attention of the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance?

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: To which board and which bank is the Taoiseach referring?

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: What about Irish Life & Permanent?

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not. I am simply trying to get information.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Okay, the Taoiseach did not know about this on 30 September. The Government was in discussion with the banks. We were told on 30 September that the Government was in discussions with the banks. Arising from those discussions, the Taoiseach came before the House and effectively asked the Dáil to hand over the deeds of the country to bail out the banks in a guarantee scheme.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If the banks did not tell the Taoiseach what was really going on at the time he came before the House, they were making a monkey of him. They were also making a monkey of the public, which was asked to put up the money and the guarantee. The Taoiseach says he did not know of this on 30 September. When did he find out? We now have a serious problem in the banking system and a serious loss...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That does not answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach should answer the question.

Official Gifts. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the guidelines that exist in regard to the acceptance of hospitality by Ministers from State agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46104/08]