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Business of Dáil (10 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach before the House. The normal practice when a motion of no confidence, in the Taoiseach or the Government, is tabled is that there is a counter motion of confidence from the Government. Motions of confidence or no confidence have always taken precedence over all other business being transacted in the House. I want to establish from the...

Business of Dáil (10 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will be brief. We were not to discuss the contents of the banking reports which so damningly criticise the performance of the Government and, in particular, of the Taoiseach over a period of time. The Government hatched those reports for ten days and is not allowing any discussion here in the Dáil. It then tried to news manage the release of the reports yesterday, which backfired...

Business of Dáil (10 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Under the Constitution, the Government's authority to govern is based on its ability to command a majority in this House.

Business of Dáil (10 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to please hear my point of order. There is a motion of confidence which challenges that the Government has a majority in the House. We do not know if Government backbenchers, who have been distancing themselves from the Taoiseach for some time, are willing to come in and vote support in him. We do not know if the Green Party will vote support in him.

Business of Dáil (10 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We do not know if the Independent Deputies will vote support in him. The Constitution is very clear that votes in the House are on the basis of those present and voting. There is a challenge today, not next Tuesday. The motion of confidence is tabled today. The challenge is that the Government does not enjoy the support of a majority of Deputies in the House today. I submit to the Ceann...

Business of Dáil: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: As I understand from what the Government Chief Whip read out, it is proposed to have only the motion of confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government taken today. Is that correct?

Business of Dáil: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not intend to delay the proceedings but just wish to make the point that on the previous occasion when there was a motion of confidence in the then Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, on 26 September 2007, there was normal business on that day. There were Questions, Leaders' Questions and Adjournment matters so what is being proposed for today departs from that. This is the third sitting...

Business of Dáil: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----it will be two weeks since we have had Leaders' Questions and I merely want to draw attention to that.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

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

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Taoiseach no shame? I expected he would come in today and present a robust defence of his Government's performance and of his performance. I expected he would have the usual thump at the Opposition or anyone else he could find to blame. Frankly, the Taoiseach excelled himself with the self-serving nature of his contribution in opening the debate. He has provided us with half an...

Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We spent all day yesterday on a motion proposed by the Taoiseach that he should keep his job and that his Ministers should keep theirs. This morning I want to ask him about the concerns of people who have already lost their jobs and people who are concerned about losing their jobs. Earlier this month, the live register figures were published and they tell us that for the 12th successive...

Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is hopelessly depressing for people who are out of work. Effectively what the Taoiseach stated is that when everything else is fixed people might get back into work. The Government keeps telling us that we have turned the corner. From the Taoiseach's reply, it seems that as far as people who are out of work are concerned the only turning the Government has done is turning its back on...

Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The document Just the Job contained a set of proposals to reactivate the labour market. We have produced a number of sectoral proposals. The Taoiseach stated the Government has more people in training now than before. It has taken up a couple of the ideas we put forward but the numbers of places in those training measures have been increased by only a very small amount, a couple of...

Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----is the problem of people who are out of work. The figures are creeping up to half the people out of work being out of work on a long-term basis. We do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past when people were out of work for a long period of time and found it harder to get back into the workforce and the labour market. In particular, I want to ask the Taoiseach what he will do...

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the progress made to date regarding the implementation of the Renewed Programme for Government, with particular regard to those areas for which he has responsibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23282/10]

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We may need to change some of the Chairmen.

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The programme for Government and the revised programme for Government contain a number of interesting ideas. On 1 May the Government introduced the carbon levy on home heating oil. There was, however, a commitment in the programme for Government that relief would be provided to families and households on low incomes in conjunction with the levy. I ask the Taoiseach when this relief will be...

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that line Ministers will be able to provide detailed information on these matters but I expected that they would have come to the Taoiseach's attention, at least in a general way, if they had been progressed. This would have enabled him to give an indication of the position in respect of them. I am disappointed with the Taoiseach's reply on fuel poverty. He stated that...

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No, I am not. It is in the programme for Government.

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that but it is in the programme for Government. I am asking the Taoiseach about it because it is a general provision which is not the responsibility of any individual Department and I would like him to tell us what has happened to it. With regard to the idea by the Minister for Health and Children, which she came up with as long ago as 2005, to develop co-located private...