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Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share my time with Deputies Pat Rabbitte and Ruairí Quinn.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This budget screws middle-income working families and does little or nothing for jobs. Take a couple earning a salary of €45,000 each. The budget will cost them €900 on the income levy on top of the €900 they started paying in January, €1,800 on the increased health levy, €1,000 by losing the early childhood payment for their two young children, €900 by losing their mortgage...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Yet again, the banks have not been cleared out. The boards and the executives who created this mess are still in place. There are 200,000 more people on the dole since the last general election but the top bankers keep their jobs. They are even resisting the salary restrictions which the Government belatedly imposed. This is astonishing. It would not happen in any other country. The...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the performing arts module, which contains a strand for dance, cannot be modified for inclusion in the mainstream leaving certificate, as many students who attend these art subjects outside school are high achievers and confining this to the leaving certificate applied discriminates against them; if he will meet and have...

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach will have studied the assessment made by the International Monetary Fund which concludes that Ireland will pay a higher price to re-stablise its banks than any other country and that the cost to the Irish taxpayer may be €24 billion, the biggest Government bail out of banks of any developed country. He will also have seen the opinion piece written by Professor Krugman in the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That answer is a mixture of clutching at straws and denial. No matter how the Taoiseach spins this, the IMF has used the same methodology in looking at the banking situation across all of the countries in the developed world and it has come to the conclusion that the Irish bailout will be the most expensive. Clutching at straws by saying that this or that figure is out or was in an earlier...

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is the term the IMF used.

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is correct.

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: No, that is not the case.

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is time the Taoiseach made up his mind.

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government is not like any other, it is worse than any other government.

Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes it is. That is what the IMF said.

Freedom of Information. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department during the first two months of 2009; the way this compares with the same period in each year going back to 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10885/09]

Freedom of Information. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Will we have to submit a freedom of information request to the Taoiseach to find out who are the new Ministers of State? If we do, will we be charged a fee for it?

Freedom of Information. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am relieved to hear that. The Labour Party has two Private Members' Bills on the Order Paper relating to freedom of information. One Bill proposes that the Freedom of Information Act should apply automatically to all public bodies unless there are compelling reasons for it not to, in other words, that the freedom of information process would apply automatically and the legislation would...

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the last occasion on which the Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal met; and when the next meeting is due. [10886/09]

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Inclusion, Children and Integration last met; and when the next meeting is due. [10887/09]

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Much better to do it at breakfast.

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: All these arrangements relating to Cabinet committees are very confusing. I thank the Taoiseach for explaining to the House the role of these committees in reconciling what may appear to be conflicting policy objectives by Government and individual Departments. Which of the committees is addressing the matters related to banking? Which committee, for example, would have considered the...

Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is there no committee dealing with the issue?