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Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not dispute the ruling of the Ceann Comhairle but what happened here yesterday was a Thierry Henry moment. The ball was handled and the rules being applied are the FIFA rules.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not sure the Tánaiste satisfactorily answered the question she was asked, which concerned the arrangements for the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill next week. It is this Bill that will cut the pay of workers earning less than €600 a week by 5%. According to the schedule that has been circulated for next week, the Government intends to pull the same...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That procedure is designed to minimise the opportunities for amendments to be proposed to the legislation and to minimise the number of times Government TDs will have to vote on the specific provisions of the Bill. It is clearly concluded on the Government side that it is politically easier to sell a general vote on the Bill with a wrapped up motion that the Bill pass with all amendments...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who is visiting the House today, has promised he would introduce legislation to put a cap on the amount of waste which could be incinerated in an incinerator. As a result he believes he will be able to stop the planned incinerator in Ringsend. Is the environment (miscellaneous provisions) Bill which is listed for publication...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy O'Sullivan is absolutely right. There has always been a poverty-proofing of the budget. This used to be done by the Combat Poverty Agency which the Government abolished last year and we were told it would be done instead by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Has this document been laid before the House? It is a document related to the budget. Deputy O'Sullivan is correct...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----to have the budget assessed-----

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----to see what impact it has on poor people. Does this House pay any attention to the needs of poor people any more?

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It has not been circulated.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I can tell the Ceann Comhairle it has not been circulated. The social welfare Bill is being guillotined this evening but the document on the impact of the budgetary measures on poor people seems to me to be a document which the House needs to have before the debate on the social welfare Bill concludes. As the Ceann Comhairle has acknowledged, it has not been circulated. Where is it; when...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Where is the document?

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Where is the document?

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This is very simple. There has been a requirement and it is the custom year in, year out, that when the Government draws up the budget there is examination of the impact of the budgetary measures on poor people. This examination used to be done by the Combat Poverty Agency, which no longer exists, and is now supposed to be done by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. As Deputy...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Mó náire ar an Tánaiste. Tá seo uafásach. Bhí an Tánaiste ina hAire Gnóthaí Sóisialacha agus Teaghlaigh í féin.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Ba cheart go mbeadh a fhios aici go gcuirfí caipéis mar seo os comhair na Dála

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Ba cheart go gcuirfí an chaipéis seo os comhair na Dála. Ní sí ar fáil

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If these were measures that were impacting on well-heeled people with many connections or on banks or professionals with professional bodies and so forth, the matter would not be passed over in this manner. These measures are impacting on people who are poor and an assessment was supposed to have been done on the impact of the budget on the poor. I have some straightforward questions. Has...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has insisted on guillotining the debate on the social welfare Bill, which must conclude this evening. That is the Government's choice, not the choice of the Labour Party. There is a requirement to have the impact of the budgetary measures on poor people laid before the House. Where is the document? Did the Government do an assessment of the impact of the budget on poor...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The debate will be guillotined.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Before Deputies contribute to the debate, we want to know where is the document. Did the Government do an assessment? It is becoming patently clear that the silent Ministers on the front bench, including the Minister for Finance who introduced the budget - the silver spoon wing of the Government - did not examine its impact on poor people.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Where is the document?