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Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If the remark from the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, was directed at me I will regard it as a badge of honour.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation at the British-Irish Council meeting in Jersey on 13 November 2009. [42336/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his meeting on 28 November 2009 with the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. [45297/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he make a statement on his meeting on 30 November 2009 with the British Prime Minister. [45298/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement in his recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [45299/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Those who have been following the Northern Ireland situation would have been struck by the meeting which the Taoiseach had in the past couple of days with the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, and with the quite public manifestation at that meeting, or at least the public part of it, of the bad relationship, which seems to exist between the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach will also be aware that one of the issues which has caused concern north of the Border is the establishment of NAMA. Were NAMA and its implications for Northern Ireland discussed at his meeting with the First Minister and Deputy First Minister? Has the Government given any consideration to the possibility of appointing somebody from Northern Ireland with a Northern Ireland...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: To return to the policing issue, I listened to the reply the Taoiseach gave to Deputy Ó Caoláin. I want to underline the urgency about getting the policing and justice issues devolved. First, it was agreed and therefore that agreement should be implemented. Second, all of the parties represented on the Executive support the devolution of policing and have expressed that view publicly. I...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: No, it is not agreed. As I indicated previously, the Labour Party will not agree to the manner in which the Government is ordering business because of the undemocratic manner in which it railroaded through the House last week the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill, which will cut blind pensions, as well as the allowances to carers, widows and people with disabilities, and this week...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not agreed. No. a5 is the Appropriation Bill, covering all the Estimates of the various Departments and is significant financial legislation. The Government wants the House to pass the Bill without debate. This was the Bill on which the House used to have what was called the adjournment debate before Christmas.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It lasted two or three days and Members of the House had the opportunity to raise issues on any Estimate or any area of public expenditure. Over the years this has been narrowed down, first to half a day, then a couple of hours and now the Government wants to put the Appropriation Bill, covering the entire finances of the State, through without debate. In normal circumstances that would not...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the Taoiseach not answering questions on the Order of Business this morning?

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is somewhat unusual that the Taoiseach should take all the Order of Business questions together. While I appreciate that the Order of Business is running a bit longer than normal this morning, I hope this does not create a precedent. I wish to support Deputy Kenny's point on the EU Committee of the Regions. Based on the results of the local elections, the Labour Party, like Fine Gael,...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there are any educational supports available to sports clubs on the effects of drug use through his Department's local drugs task forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47033/09]

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I, too, wish to oppose the Order of Business. There are serious matters that this House needs to discuss immediately after Christmas. It is unacceptable that we should have to wait until 19 January to do so. The original schedule for the sittings of the House provided that it would be back on 13 January 2010. I welcomed that the House was coming back earlier than was previously the case....

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Whatever about previous years there is no justification for the House adjourning until 19 January this year. These are not normal times and this should not be treated as business as usual. Unemployment figures released yesterday show that approximately 185,000 more people were unemployed last year than in the previous year - 142,000 men and 42,000 women. We had figures yesterday showing...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a work of fiction, namely, the Green Party election manifesto which states that it would more than double the Dáil sitting time, with Dáil sittings running-----

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----45 weeks per year from Monday afternoon until lunchtime on Friday, from 9.30 a.m. until 7 p.m.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: On the proposal from the Governor of the Central Bank that there should be an inquiry into what happened in our banking system, it is not a complex issue which requires a great deal of consideration. The Taoiseach will agree or disagree with the proposal. All of the indications are that he is trying to find every and any excuse not to agree to it. It is something which the Labour Party...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: There are two issues. One is a political issue. If we are going to have an election next June, the very least we are entitled to know is what it is we are electing.