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Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Is it still the Government's intention to proceed with the legislation for the election of a Dublin mayor and is its intention to proceed with that election in 2010? I asked last week if the heads of the Bill could be circulated or published. The Opposition parties have not had sight of the heads of that Bill, which I understand were approved by Government. I have been seeking a meeting...

Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have been three weeks waiting for it now.

Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I know he is busy.

Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In what month did the Taoiseach say?

Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the heads be circulated?

Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking the Taoiseach; he is the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In fairness, this is not a new subject that I am raising. I have been asking about this issue for quite some time. We are in the rather ridiculous situation where this election is, as the Taoiseach says, promised for some time in 2010. We do not know what this office will involve. As I understand it, the Dublin authorities, to which this office will relate, do not appear to know much...

Written Answers — Maoiniú Ranna: Maoiniú Ranna (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 325: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an mbeidh airgead á chur ar fáil i mbliana do bhóithre áise ar Oileán Árainn Mhór, Contae Dhún na nGall; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [8862/10]

Written Answers — Maoiniú Ranna: Maoiniú Ranna (23 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 326: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta chun foirgnimh feithimh do phaisinéirí atá ag taisteal ar na báid farantóireachta a sholáthar ag Cé Ailt an Chorráin agus ag Cé Leadhb Gharbh, Oileán Árainn Mhór, Contae Dhún na nGall; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [8863/10]

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There are 436,000 people out of work. Businesses are trying to keep going this morning in circumstances where they do not have credit from financial institutions. Families throughout the country are frightened about the future, whether they can pay the mortgage, what they can do about their levels of personal debt and whether they will have work by the end of the year. Young people are...

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Throughout history every ruler, where power has gone to his head, believes that nobody else can rule or govern. That is what we are now getting-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----from the Taoiseach and from Fianna Fáil.

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Let me tell the Taoiseach where he is wrong. The Opposition has supported the Government. We supported it on Europe. We supported it on the necessity to make the fiscal adjustment of €4 billion.

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Government Deputies are very good at the political debate, but let us stick with the facts. We supported it on the fiscal adjustment, on the necessity to reform public services and in respect of this country's international reputation in every meeting and discussion we have had - I am sure the same is true of Deputy Kenny - with the European Central Bank, the OECD and the European...

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We have made it clear that in circumstances where there were a change of Government, we would put the national interest first. The Taoiseach has been blessed with a responsible Opposition and yet-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----where we have opposed the Government we have been absolutely right. When this party opposed the blanket guarantee for the banks we were right.

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If that guarantee had not applied to Anglo Irish Bank, as it should not have, we would not now be stuck with the enormous bill of thousands of millions of euro of taxpayers' money-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----that is going to have to go into that.

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When we told the Government almost a year ago that the most prudent way of dealing with the banking crisis was the temporary nationalisation of the banks, the Taoiseach rubbished it. The Government has ended up with the situation where it will have nationalisation anyway by the back door in a dragged out way that is most expensive for the taxpayer. The Taoiseach's problem is that he has not...

Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Is that true?