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- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: With whom will the Government re-engage?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: With whom will the Government engage?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach deferred the issue by making an absolute mess of it.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party is not prepared to agree the Order of Business until we secure clarification from the Taoiseach in respect of the social welfare Bill. Last week, it was intimated the Bill would be taken next week. Today, there is some talk around the place that there is a possibility or an intention on the part of the Government to have the legislation put through the House on Friday of...
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: This is new information provided to the House. I asked the Taoiseach about the post-budget legislative arrangements the Government intends to make. The Taoiseach is now telling us that there will be two very significant tranches of legislation. The Social Welfare Bill is obviously intended to cut social welfare and the Government proposes to rush it. We will have the budget on Wednesday....
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: If the Ceann Comhairle wants me to call a vote on every one of these five proposals I will do so.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Whatever way the Ceann Comhairle wishes to handle it is fine but we have very little time. This is the point I have been making and it is not the first time I have raised this matter. Since the Government has decided the budget will be introduced this week there is very limited time between budget day, tomorrow, and the recess for Christmas to debate the budget. We are now told there will...
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Forget it. We are not going to agree to that or anything remotely like it.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Kenny that the amount of time being provided for these Estimates is far too short. For that reason, the Labour Party is opposed to this proposal. I am also opposed to it because of the completely unsatisfactory arrangements the Taoiseach has indicated for the taking of the Social Welfare Bill. It would appear what is happening is that the Government is now so terrified...
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I want to ask the Taoiseach more about the two Bills promised. He stated we will have a social welfare Bill, Second Stage of which will be taken on Thursday and Remaining Stages to be taken on Friday. In addition to taking Remaining Stages of the social welfare Bill on Friday we will also deal with the carbon budget, which presumably will include proposals on a carbon levy or tax. When...
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I asked the Taoiseach when the two Bills will be published.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: That is not an acceptable response given the arrangements proposed for the Bills. If we take a social welfare Bill on Thursday I want to know when it will be published. Will it be published on Wednesday evening after the budget or will it be published on Thursday morning? Will we see it before the Minister comes in to propose it? When will the Bill dealing with public sector pay be...
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not looking for its content; when will it be published?
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: When?
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is not answering me.
- Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I am sorry but this is not business as usual and there is a logic to why I am asking this. We have two Bills to which the Government has obviously given consideration. Have the heads of the Bills been approved by the Government? Has the text of the Bills been approved by the Government? Will they be published this week? If the two Bills must be passed by the end of the session and must...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if legislation has been prepared to allow for the appropriate dissemination of soft information regarding people who may be a threat to children; when it is expected that such legislation will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45542/09]
- Written Answers — Capital Projects: Capital Projects (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the new starts expected in the Capital Programme for her Department for 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45541/09]
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 105: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years; the number of such staff who were subsequently re-assigned to duties appropriate to their new qualifications. [45329/09]
- Written Answers — Code of Practice: Code of Practice (8 Dec 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 106: To ask the Taoiseach the State agencies under the aegis of his Department to which the new Code of Practice for the Governance of State bodies applies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45339/09]