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Programme for Government. (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date regarding the implementation of those areas of the revised programme for Government for which his Department has line responsibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1464/10]

Programme for Government. (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he has satisfied himself with the rate of implementation of the revised programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1465/10]

Programme for Government. (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I also want to ask the Taoiseach about green jobs. One green job in particular is the job that the former Senator de Búrca did not get. What was the understanding in the reviewed programme for Government about jobbery in the Government and about the appointment of jobs like this? The former Senator claims that she was promised the job and that the Minister, Deputy John Gormley, could not...

Programme for Government. (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach refers to my first question as an internal party matter. It is not an internal party matter. I am asking him about the programme for Government, which is the marriage contract - if one could elevate it to that status at all - between his party and the Green Party. One of the provisions in that programme for Government relates to appointments to public bodies. There is a...

Programme for Government. (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach states that this will require legislation, but could the Government not do this anyway? If there is a more open and transparent system for appointment to public bodies, the Government could do it without having to go through the bother of bringing in legislation. The job in Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn's cabinet could have been advertised in line with the provisions of this...

Programme for Government. (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Incineration is, therefore, Government policy.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I, too, got a similar telephone call. It is always very nice to hear from your office, a Cheann Comhairle, but as you know there is a rule that you apply to the rest of us. You regularly remind us that we should not anticipate debate. I believe you were anticipating debate and an approach to this issue that you should not have anticipated. As it turned out, it was not necessary for you to...

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----that the arrangement eventually arrived at here yesterday evening was a very unsatisfactory one whereby the Minister gave a statement but no opportunity was provided to Members of the House to ask him questions or to respond to the statement he made. I appreciate that the Ceann Comhairle responded to a request from the Minister to allow him an opportunity to make a statement of personal...

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach indicated earlier his willingness to have the motion of no confidence in the Minister for Defence taken today. I was surprised this morning that the Order of Business presented to the House did not include a counter-motion tabled by the Government, that is, a motion of confidence in the Minister. Is there some reason for that? Has the Taoiseach not yet secured the agreement...

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Kenny is only trying to clarify what the Taoiseach said earlier.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Green Party agreed to the motion yet?

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Does the Green Party know about it? Has the Government made a decision on the matter?

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: You wish, Minister.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

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

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party will support the motion of no confidence in the Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea. We will oppose the motion that has been proposed by the Taoiseach. The Labour Party has no confidence in the Government as a collective entity or in the Ministers in their individual capacities. This is the Fianna Fáil Government that has brought this country to the brink of economic ruin.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This is a Government that has allowed unemployment to climb to unprecedented levels and permitted emigration to return to levels not seen since the 1980s. This is a Government that has presided over massive job losses at Dell, in the constituency of the Minister, Deputy O'Dea, at Waterford Crystal and in many other plants without taking any meaningful action to try and save those jobs. This...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It did nothing to even try to save the jobs in Bank of Scotland-Ireland. This is a Fianna Fáil Government that has placed a financial millstone around the necks of not just the current generation of taxpayers, but of Irish taxpayers for generations to come. This is a Government that wrote a blank cheque for the banks when it agreed in as yet unexplained circumstances on the night of 30...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister, Deputy O'Dea, as a member of the Cabinet must accept his share of the responsibility for the economic damage and social destruction that Fianna Fáil has wrought on the people. However, it is another matter, of enormous importance and significance that has led to the tabling of this motion of no confidence in the Minister. Leaving aside the broader issues I referred to, there...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In his personal explanation to the House last night, the Minister said, "I have never said that I lied on oath, as I was never on oath".

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: However, an affidavit is sworn evidence, given on oath and is the equivalent of evidence given on oath in the witness box.