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Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: You have had this for a year and those people are out of work.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: You have blown it.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Those jobs have been allowed to fall by the wayside.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I remind the Ceann Comhairle that I am the Member he called. I am in possession.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Members doing the interrupting are over there.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am the Member who is in possession.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Members who are interrupting are on that side of the House.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: May I move on to the question of yesterday's motion?

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Ceann Comhairle, I sat here-----

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I sat through the Order of Business waiting to be called. I did not interrupt. I did not barrack or shout at anybody. I was in possession when the Ceann Comhairle adjourned the House. I am attempting to ask a couple of questions on behalf of the people of this country who send us here. Since I stood up, I have been interrupted by Members from the Government side, including Ministers. I...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Am I to be permitted to-----

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I just want to make my contribution and I do not want to engage in argy bargy.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am being continuously interrupted. I raised a question on yesterday's Order of Business about the status of the motion which the Ceann Comhairle permitted and to which the Taoiseach replied. My understanding, which I think the Tánaiste has confirmed in her reply, was that it was intended as a Government motion. The question I asked was when the Government made the decision to bring the...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste has indicated that, somehow, the Taoiseach made the decision while he was on his feet for the Order of Business. Is that the case or was a decision taken by the Government? Members of one of the Government parties have been saying they were bounced into the motion. Was it a Government motion? Did the Taoiseach decide to introduce that motion while he was on his feet yesterday...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, we know that, but when did the Government make the decision?

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When did the Government make the decision?

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is right.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: However, it is the Tánaiste's responsibility.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank you for calling me a Cheann Comhairle. I had indicated to you that there were two other matters I wished to raise with the Tánaiste, both of which relate to promised legislation.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The first is the promised legislation to have a directly elected mayor of Dublin. I have been asking for some time about when the Bill will be published.