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Leaders' Questions (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am curious about the way in which the Government is planning to do this. I understand from what the Taoiseach said that the issue of the banks is to be dealt with in the Budget Statement by the Minister, Deputy Lenihan. The significance and scale of what is being done, or intended to be done, is very large. What has been done already is very large. The guarantee exposes the Irish...

Leaders' Questions (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am only asking for information.

Leaders' Questions (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I made no charge.

Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I have two questions. Will the Government publish a revised Book of Estimates? When will it be published or will it be incorporated in the Budget Statement we are to get later today? In an earlier reply the Taoiseach said the House would have an opportunity to vote on the budget. I know we will have opportunities to vote on particular issues that may arise in the budget during some of the...

Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: In the past two years, the House has not voted on the budget. I suppose the 2007 budget is of academic and historical interest now. It is a bit of a work of fiction considering all that has happened since. When does the Taoiseach envisage the actual vote on the general financial resolution will be brought to the House?

Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: What about Nos. 22 and 25 on the Order Paper?

Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I appeal to Members that we need to get on with the business.

Supplementary Budget Statement 2009 (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Did he bleep?

Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This section of the budget caused me some surprise. Will the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment tell us the expected take from the increases in excise in the budget? I thought there was scope for the Government to do more in this area than it has done because it would raise money immediately and do so more fairly than applying levies that hit the pay packets of working people....

Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: They were smoking something.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose we take an additional 20 minutes on this motion.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Mineral Oil Tax (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste must take her medicine.

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The batch of financial resolutions before us covers quite a wide range. If taxes on income are to increase - and they clearly are in this budget in the form of the increased income levy and changes in PRSI - then there is a consistent logic in applying similar increases at least to capital taxes. On the issue of capital acquisitions tax, I understand why and I agree that in times when...

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is it a good idea to talk about who is naked?

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 18: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the problems created for small and medium sized enterprises which have been forced to make employees redundant as a result of the recession because of the delays in processing applications for the rebate of 60% of the statutory redundancy payments to which they are entitled;...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (7 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the percentage of eligible women who have been screened by BreastCheck as of 31 January 2009, broken down by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14230/09]

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: At the outset, on my own behalf and on behalf of the Labour Party, I extend our sympathy to the family, friends and colleagues of the late Garda Robbie McCallion whose life passed away tragically yesterday. Today and tomorrow we will have an opportunity to have a long debate on the budget, on the extent to which the Government has screwed working families on modest incomes, on the decision to...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: As I understand it, the plan is that the Government will use Government bonds to take off the hands of these property speculators and developers-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----the half finished apartment blocks we see everywhere, the empty hotels and office blocks and the land that was bought at exorbitant prices on borrowed money from the banks. This represents the so-called bad debts we are talking about.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We are talking about assets, bad debts and toxic debts. The property that was bought by property speculators with borrowed money will now be bought back with Government bonds at taxpayers' expense.