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- Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the savings that will accrue to his Department arising from the public service pay cuts applied by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No 2) Act; the number of personnel whose pay has been cut; the average reduction in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1582/10]
- Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the number of personnel in his Department to whom the full public service pay cuts provided for by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No 2) Act will not apply by virtue of circular 28/2009 issued by the Department of Finance on 22 December 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1583/10]
- Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I have some questions for the Taoiseach about the cuts in pay to staff of his Department. Have these pay cuts already commenced, and from what date did they commence? Second, I refer to the decision that was taken subsequent to the Act being passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas to vary the manner in which it was to be applied to the grades of assistant and deputy secretary. Was that...
- Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I acknowledge the Taoiseach's response regarding the Moriarty tribunal and I will await the clarification he intends to send to me on the Health Service Executive circular and the position regarding the staffs of bodies that are funded by the public purse, rather than those who are directly employed in the public sector. I wish to pursue the other two matters I raised a little further. The...
- Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Was such an order signed? Is there a commencement order in this regard?
- Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the question on the decision about-----
- Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I refer again to the way in which the decision was made to vary the application of the pay cuts in the case of the higher grades because I am unclear. As I understand it, the decision was made by the Minister for Finance and the Government was informed. Had the Minister discretion in the way in which the pay cut was applied? The Taoiseach explained the rationale for changing the way it was...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Prior to the House agreeing to this, will the Taoiseach confirm that it will not involve the payment of a chairperson and all of the panoply that goes with the appointment of Oireachtas committees?
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: About 100 flights in and out of Ireland have been cancelled this afternoon as a result of industrial action taken by air traffic controllers. Spokespersons for both the Irish Aviation Authority and the trade union concerned were on television last night and they effectively said that this was going to escalate. One spokesperson stated that more air traffic controllers were likely to be...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Thank you. I am glad to hear it.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: That is of little comfort to those waiting with their suitcases at the airport this afternoon.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has been caught out again.
- Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I join my colleagues in wishing the Minister for Finance well in the personal challenge he faces. I thank Members for their contributions to this debate and my colleague and Labour Party finance spokesperson, Deputy Burton, for proposing the motion on a public inquiry into what happened in the banking system. In ten minutes' time, every Member of the House will have a choice to make. That...
- Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: When I heard-----
- Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I believed him when I heard Senator Boyle outline the Green Party's principles on this matter, that the inquiry would have to be open, public and have Oireachtas involvement. When I heard that the Minister, Deputy John Gormley, was going to see the Taoiseach, and was going to insist on a public inquiry-----
- Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: -----I believed him-----
- Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: -----because I believed that the Green Party, of all parties, understands what has happened in the economy and what has happened in banking is a consequence of bad planning, and the political relationship to bad planning is as a consequence of property speculation-----
- Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and of unsustainable practices and lending by banks.
- Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: What I did not expect, and what I am grossly disappointed about, is that the Green Party should have so easily sold the pass.
- Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Green Party has a decision to make tonight. It is a decision that goes to the heart of everything the party has stood for, namely, matters relating to planning and the sustainability of the economy, principles that the Labour Party shares with it. This decision goes to the heart of everything the Green Party stands for. If its members decide that they will stand not with their...