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Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We still do not know what this office will mean. Is the Taoiseach serious about proceeding with an election next June for something which has not yet been legislated for or discussed here? Whether it has been discussed by the Government is another day's work. As this is the last sitting day before the turn of the year, the very least we need to know is if the election is going ahead, what...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The primaries-----

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We need time to have the primaries for this high office.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: These things are associated with cold winters in new Hampshire.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: There could be cold winters in Swords and Shankill as the prospective candidates for this office are trudging the ground to try to drum up support.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like an answer.

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Will we have the legislation before or after the election of the mayor?

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Ba mhaith liomsa, chomh maith, thar chionn Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise a ghuí ortsa, a Cheann Comhairle, ar an dTaoiseach, na ceannairí eile agus le chuile dhuine a oibríonn anseo i dTeach Laighean. I join with the Taoiseach and the other party leaders in wishing a happy Christmas to the Ceann Comhairle, to all the staff of the House, the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: In the Bill we passed yesterday I see that if the Taoiseach retires in 2010, his pension will be calculated on the pre-cut salary. I should like to suggest that for the new year he does himself and his Ministers - and indeed the country - a favour by retiring in 2010 and give us the opportunity of a general election. Then it would be an even happier Christmas next year, and an even more...

Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am writing to Santa about it.

Innovation Task Force. (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the progress made to date of the innovation task force. [45392/09]

Innovation Task Force. (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government's approach to the task force seems to have all the lack of urgency that is so typical of this Government. The idea of an innovation task force was announced by the Government in December 2008 with great fanfare in Dublin Castle to introduce the Government's plans for a smart economy. It took all of six months to get the task force set up, and it was not set up until June of...

Innovation Task Force. (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Can the Taoiseach be more specific than he has been up to now with regard to when this task force will actually report? I understand from him that there is a meeting towards the end of January, probably on 29 January. Is that to be the final meeting of the task force? Is it the meeting at which it will conclude its report? When does the Taoiseach expect that the report will be presented?...

Independent Members. (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the Deputies with whom special arrangements have been made in return for support for the Government; if changes to these arrangements were made prior to or arising from budget 2010; if such changes have been costed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48421/09]

Independent Members. (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Every time we ask these questions about the agreements between the Government and the Independent Deputies, we seem to run into the sand and we have never been able to track down where are the agreements. Nobody has ever put them on the record of the House or told us exactly what is in them. It is a bit like chasing the Holy Grail. I have come to the conclusion that there are no...

Independent Members. (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: They obviously rate a meeting with the Taoiseach highly.

Independent Members. (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Not for a while yet.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When I asked the Taoiseach just before Christmas about holding an inquiry into what happened in the banking sector he was very reluctant to agree that there should be such an inquiry. He informed us today that he and the Government have given the matter careful consideration. That is true. They have given it very careful consideration. In the face of the Labour Party motion that is before...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: By the time that commission of investigation eventually reaches conclusions, we will be told, as we were in the case of the Murphy and Ryan reports, that we have to wait until persons who are named or identified in the report have seen the draft and have an opportunity to respond to it, all of which will put it safely beyond the next general election, which is where the Taoiseach wants to put it.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In case the Taoiseach did not get it, he has amazingly excluded himself in his previous role as Minister for Finance and his Department from the inquiry. According to the amendment the Government has produced, these reports will consider the international, social and macroeconomic environment which provided the context for the recent crisis in the banking sector. There is no mention of the...