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Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have objected to the use of the guillotine throughout this week and last week. However, on this occasion I must acknowledge that the Government has acceded to a request from the Labour Party that the Multi-Unit Developments Bill would be passed on Second Stage before the summer recess to allow it to go on Committee Stage. This is legislation the Labour Party has sought for some...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The proposal before us from the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government is to close down the Dáil until 29 September.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Even by the standards of this Government, closing down the Dáil until 29 September is exceptional. We must go back to 2003 to find a later date for the resumption of the Dáil than the Government is proposing for this year. Undoubtedly, when the Government uses its majority shortly to get this proposal passed, and it will be opposed by the Labour Party, it will inevitably be reported that...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If I were Deputy Healy-Rae, I would keep well clear of Killorglin in mid-August. I hear they do strange things to old bucks.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have a suggestion for the Government if it insists on a recess until 29 September. Will it reconvene the House for one day at the beginning of September to introduce the Bill to hold the referendum on children as well as table a motion to move the writ for the three by-elections for the three vacancies in the House? We could at least use the month of September to put the referendum on...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I echo the good wishes of the Ceann Comhairle to all who work in this House - members, staff and media. I return to the issues I raised with the Tánaiste when we were debating the date for the resumption. I refer to the Government's plans for the children's referendum and the three by-elections. What is the Government's intention with regard to these matters? Will the Government consider...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (8 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 24: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons, to date, who have made a full application under the home choice scheme; the number of new build and the number of second hand houses now occupied as a result of this scheme; the cost to date of administering the scheme; his plans to continue with the scheme; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Local Authority Expenditure: Local Authority Expenditure (8 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 32: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government which local authorities continue to pay storage charges for obsolete electronic voting machines; the amount of such charges and the duration of the outstanding contracts; the progress that has been made by the working group towards the disposal or recycling of the redundant machines; the number of times this...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Kenny has quite rightly described the decision to give the blanket guarantee to the banks two years ago today as the worst decision that was ever made. It was, of course, a decision to write a blank cheque for the banks and later today the Government will come into the House and ask us to extend that guarantee and, in effect, write another blank cheque. The problem is that we do not...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is extraordinary that the Taoiseach tells us that he does not know the figure that will be announced tomorrow and that it has not been finalised yet. Is that the way the financial affairs of the country are being run? Is the Taoiseach seriously telling us that the Government has made a decision to come in here and ask for another extension on the guarantee without knowing where we are in...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: One of the problems we have as a country is that this incremental additional cost for Anglo Irish Bank, the drip-feed of information and the message that the Government does not know. Is the message going out to the markets that the head of the Government does not know the bottom line for Anglo Irish Bank and does not yet know a figure that will be announced tomorrow? In that situation he...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ——of borrowing for the country, and the Taoiseach is adding to it by communicating the message that he does not know. That is not credible.

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal held to date in 2010 and when the next meeting is due. [32301/10]

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committees in which he or his Department participates [32305/10]

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change last met; when the next meeting is due. [32306/10]

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Having neglected the jobs issue since even before the start of the recession, I was interested to see that during the month, two and half years into his term of office, the Taoiseach met the heads of the State agencies responsible for job creation. In a matter of weeks, and just in time for the start of the Dáil session, a jobs document was launched. I desperately want to believe that...

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking the Taoiseach about the 300,000 jobs, that we heard about this week and that we all want to believe will be created. Unfortunately, there are not many who believe it will happen. That is the difficulty. It will not happen unless there are active policies used to pursue it and I am suggesting to the Taoiseach that he might take up the proposals that the Labour Party has advanced...

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: All of them, accurately.

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have been raising the issue of employment and the loss of jobs since long before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and long before the banking crisis and the official start of the recession in this country. The reality is that since Deputy Cowen became Taoiseach the country has lost on average 320 jobs a day. This is the 16th month that the live register figures are over 400,000. One in...

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am putting it to the Taoiseach again because this is about practical proposals to get people back to work. One problem has been that the Government, which should have been on top of the unemployment problem at a much earlier stage, is now coming to it late in the day. I found it astonishing that the Taoiseach only met the heads of the agencies a couple of weeks ago.