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Official Gifts. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: These questions arose from the controversy that developed following revelations about FÁS involving trips to Florida and the expenses incurred, about who travelled and who paid for what. It emerged that the statutory responsibility for approving the scheme of expenses rested with the Minister. Without going back over the detail about who travelled where, we need to first establish a few...

Freedom of Information. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information applications received in his Department during 2008; the way these figures compare with the same period in each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1005/09]

Freedom of Information. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The last time the House discussed this matter on Question Time, I asked the Taoiseach about the Information Commissioner's decision, which was made on foot of a freedom of information request, to release documents that were used during Cabinet discussions on Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions. The Taoiseach told me on that occasion, in October 2008, that it was intended to appeal the...

Freedom of Information. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: When I asked the Taoiseach about this matter on 21 October 2008, I note the record states that the Information Commission had recently made a decision that documents relating to the Cabinet's consideration of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions should be released. The Freedom of Information Commissioner considered that European Union access to information rules and regulations, including...

Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he next intends to visit the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46102/08]

Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the matters discussed in his recent telephone conversation with the then President-elect, Barack Obama; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46103/08]

Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the communications he has had with Barack Obama since his inauguration as President of the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3045/09]

Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he has plans to meet the newly inaugurated President of the United States, Barack Obama. [3046/09]

Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I heard the Taoiseach outline what he expects his programme to be when he visits the United States on St. Patrick's Day. Does he intend to meet President Obama during that visit? For a number of years there has been a tradition of making a presentation of shamrock in the White House. Will that occur this year? Will it still be presented in Waterford crystal?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I support Deputy Kenny's request. I appreciate what the Ceann Comhairle said about the normal procedures that apply in the House. However, the Taoiseach's response to my question earlier this morning was extraordinary. The Taoiseach acknowledged that he and the Government knew about the €7 billion transfer of money or loan — call it what one wants — to Anglo Irish Bank, the effect...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We were not told. The Government introduced legislation on an entirely false premise. It had very substantial information which affected the status of Anglo Irish Bank and what we took on when we nationalised it, and the Government did not inform us about it. It is not a small matter. The consequences of all this for the public finances, the country, the taxpayer, jobs, business and our...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It will require a closer examination of the text of what was said on those days to establish formally whether misleading of the House took place.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The issue we are pursuing with the Taoiseach is not a small matter. It is clear from the replies we got during Leaders' Questions that the Government knew about the €7 billion loan.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not asking for a debate on it now, but I am asking for a debate during the day. The issue at stake here is that the Government came in and asked the House to pass a Bill nationalising a bank whose accounts had been effectively falsified by the loans it got from other institutions. The Government knew that at the time it brought in the legislation.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is not a small matter.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is now telling us that there were issues of general governance. This is not an issue of general governance.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is very specific. We were asked to nationalise a bank while the Government knew that the real financial position of that bank was not as had been publicly stated.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question : To ask the Minister for Finance when he or his Department first became aware of the reported transfer of €7 billion from Irish Life & Permanent to Anglo Irish Bank, €4 billion of which was transferred on 30 September 2008, the day on which the bank guarantee scheme was announced; the investigation being held into the transfer of these moneys; if his attention has been drawn to...

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This issue raises questions not alone of corporate governance but of governance of the country.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to retrace with the Minister how this came about. I understand from what he said that this loan was reported in the PricewaterhouseCoopers report which his Department received in October. The Minister stated his officials thought this sufficiently serious they requested the Financial Regulator to investigate the matter but that they did not bring it to his attention until...