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Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party will not agree the Order of Business today because of the manner in which the Government is rail-roading measures through the Dáil. I refer to the cuts in social welfare, which it rail-roaded through on Friday last using a guillotine, and this proposal to rail-road through the cuts in pay, again by the use of a guillotine. All of this is part of a piece of clever...

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: First, on the Ombudsman's report, the issue is that the Department concerned has rejected the Ombudsman's findings and recommendations. As she pointed out in her report, this is only the second time in 25 years that this has happened, which is the reason she has laid a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas. It is important that the House should address this matter in whatever form is...

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Ceann Comhairle, on a point of order, Deputy Shortall is in order in raising this question. This is a document-----

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a document which is laid before the House. As Deputy Shortall said, it is normally laid before the House as part of the budget documentation. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan raised this issue last week. It is clear the Government gave no consideration to the impact of the budget on poor people. It is stated in the Cabinet documents that it is required to indicate the impact of proposals on...

(15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to share my time with Deputy Joan Burton.

(15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann declines to give a second reading to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009 having regard to the decision of the Government to collapse talks with the public service unions that could have delivered major public service reforms and the savings required in...

(15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Wages, both in the public and the private sectors, inevitably raced to catch up with mortgages. I agree, there was a lot of money being made in those years, but it was not being made by the young couples, including many young teachers and civil servants, who took out enormous mortgages to pay for modest houses. Now that the bubble has burst, those homeowners are trapped in negative equity...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in view of the budgetary implications for overseas development spending over the past 12 months, his views as to whether Ireland will honour its 0.7% target for 2012 and the effects this cut will continue to have on the world's poorest. [46853/09]

Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the recent referendum vote in Switzerland, at which it was agreed to ban the further building of minarets, has been discussed at European Union level; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46854/09]

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This week last year Mr. Seán FitzPatrick resigned as chairman of Anglo Irish Bank after it was revealed he had been moving personal loans off the books of Anglo Irish Bank to another institution and then back again in order to conceal them. At the time, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, expressed his disappointment. Since then, we have had a high profile Garda raid on the bank...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to correct the Taoiseach on one matter. It is not the resources of the State that are dealing with the banking situation; it is the people's money.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Some €11,000 million of the people's money has been put into the banks by the Taoiseach. He makes it sound as if the call made yesterday by the Governor of the Central Bank was from some disinterested economist writing in some obscure journal. This is the Governor of the Central Bank who was appointed by the Taoiseach's Government to oversee the banks.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He thinks there should be an inquiry. He is not the first to do so. When the Taoiseach first came into the House with his bank guarantee idea, the Labour Party proposed the sending in of an inspector to the banks. We proposed an oversight committee for NAMA. Mr. Colm McCarthy, highly favoured on the Taoiseach's side of the House, proposed there should be a DIRT-style inquiry. There were...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He did so because he does not want an investigation-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----into what happened in the banks because it will expose the close connection that exists between Fianna Fáil, developers and bankers. He does not want an investigation because it would expose the fact that the regulatory authorities did not do their jobs.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: An investigation would also expose the fact that the Taoiseach presided over this when Minister for Finance. He is afraid that in an inquiry the track will lead to his door. That is the reason he will not allow it and for the response he has just given. This is not going to go away.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The people of this country are paying dearly for the failure of our banking system, through cuts in pay and social welfare payments, services and the unavailability of credit from the banks. We are not going to draw a line under this. We are not going to say that was then and this is now and let us all move forward.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The people of this country are entitled to know what type of carry on was going on in the banks that led to the mess we are in now. Just because the Taoiseach was Minister for Finance at the time and is afraid that political culpability will land at his door is not a good enough reason to block the type of inquiry that the Governor of the Central Bank has asked for.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not baseless. Why will the Taoiseach not allow an inquiry?