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Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: A second budget in the year is not normal. This is a serious matter. We all accept that the public finances are in a serious state. The timeframe is fairly short. The options for the budget date are very limited, as it will either be on 2 April, 8 April or 9 April. Which is it? This is not an academic question. Given the fact that Easter is falling around this time, there are...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (10 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Defence the latest information regarding the security situation in Chad and the potential threat to Irish troops, particularly in view of reports that large numbers of heavily armed personnel could cross the border from Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9765/09]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Deployment: Defence Forces Deployment (10 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Defence the discussions he or the Defence Forces have had with PDFORRA regarding a role that members of the Defence Forces may be asked to play in the event of widespread industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9766/09]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (10 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the concerns expressed by a council (details supplied) in County Donegal at the termination of a youth project, she will make funding available to allow the project to continue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9737/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (10 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons employed in the estates department of the Health Service Executive and the number of such employees who were permanent staff and contract workers in respect of each of the past five years; the number of contract staff who have had their contracts extended during the past five years; the policy in regard to the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for finally giving us the date of the second budget for 2009. I would like to pursue further the issue of providing information to the Opposition. The Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance have invited the Opposition parties to engage with the process and to put forward proposals. The Labour Party is very willing to do that. However, there is a certain amount of...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Correct me if I am wrong, but the position as I understand it is that the object or target that the Taoiseach is trying to achieve in the second budget is to find between €4 billion and €4.5 billion. I understand from what he has said that his intention is to do so for 2009. What assessment has been made by the Government or by his advisers? Will he make available to us information as...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach gave proposals to the European Commission. It is one matter to discuss the multi-annual context, but let us see the colour of it. We are entitled to be told the details of the estimate and projections for that multi-annual period. We also require a third element, to which Deputy Kenny and I have already referred. The Opposition parties are prepared to engage constructively...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We must have available to us the information provided to the Minister for Finance from the various Departments. For example, I refer to expenditure information on education, health, the roads programme, public transport or any of the programmes and expenditures which arise. We must have access to that information, because we cannot fly blind. I appreciate the Taoiseach's remarks to the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We all know the final figures.

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the way, in respect of his announcement of 3 February 2009, it is intended to effect the 8% reduction in professional fees for services provided to or funded by his Department; the amount expected to be saved in his Department's budget as a result of this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4747/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the way, in respect of his announcement of 3 February 2009, it is intended to achieve the general administrative reductions in regard to his Department; the amount expected to be saved in his Department's budget as a result of this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4748/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: What are the services for which professional fees are paid by his Department? Is it intended that the 8% reduction in professional fees will apply to the Central Statistics Office, Office of the Attorney General and Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions? Are professional fees incurred by the Taoiseach's private office or the private offices of his Ministers of State? If so, will...

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is it intended to apply the 8% reduction to fees paid to lawyers engaged in the Moriarty tribunal? We have had questions about the tribunal, which comes within the remit of the Department of the Taoiseach, on a number of occasions in the House. There is a degree of uncertainty about how much longer the tribunal will be in existence, when it will report and whether it will hold further...

Programme for Government. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if it is planned to make changes to the programme for Government having regard to the current economic situation and his announcement of 3 February 2009 regarding reductions in expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9618/09]

Programme for Government. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is léir ón méid atá ráite ag an Taoiseach nach bhfuil an clár Rialtais beo faoi láthair agus nach féidir linn na bearta a bhí ann a chreidiúint anois. Ardaítear dhá fhadhb dá bharr sin. Tá an clár Rialtais tábhachtach mar is é sin an conradh idir na páirithe sa Rialtas. Níl a fhios againn anois cad é go díreach an conradh idir na páirithe sin ós rud é nach féidir...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to raise three matters. The Taoiseach will recall that for some time the Labour Party has been seeking the appointment of an inspector to examine what went on in the banking system and particularly in Anglo Irish Bank. The Government rejected that request and said the Director of Corporate Enforcement would carry out the necessary investigations. As the Taoiseach is aware, the...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This reversal has been denied in public by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Will the Taoiseach inform the House whether the decision to cut back the Equality Authority's funding will go ahead?

Northern Ireland: Motion (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: On behalf of the Labour Party, I support the motion proposed by the Taoiseach. Last January in the Round Room of the Mansion House we celebrated the 90th anniversary of the first Dáil, which was the exercise of a democratic mandate, under universal suffrage throughout this island, calling for self-determination for the Irish people. Those who gathered in the Mansion House on 21 January 1919...

Unemployment Levels: Motion (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank all Members who contributed to the discussion and compliment Deputies Róisín Shortall and Willie Penrose on bringing the motion to the House. I am extremely disappointed by the Government's response to the motion. The amendment proposed by it is defensive, self-congratulatory and argues for business as usual. The Government is abandoning the unemployed. In much of the commentary...