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Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I did not raise an issue before a tribunal.

Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I raised no issue which is before a tribunal.

Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I asked the Taoiseach a question in respect of the responsibility he and his Department have for the administrative cost of the tribunal, including the cost of the appointment of counsel. It is a perfectly in order question.

Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: They never told the Taoiseach.

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yesterday, the Minister for Finance told the Irish people that the Government has decided to make a €15 billion adjustment in the budget over the next four years, double the amount that was previously expected. Where does this €15 billion come from? When I asked the Taoiseach earlier today for the detail of the information and projections on which that figure must be based, he either...

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: These cost controls must also be applied in the public sector, where there must be stronger efforts to control input costs, including professional fees, but also costs such as those relating to drugs and other elements of supply chain management. For all the doom and gloom of this emergency, the Irish economy actually has a great future. The real Celtic tiger was an export-led boom before...

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We opposed NAMA and we have been proven correct in doing so, just as we watch the developers continuing to enrich themselves through more tax breaks on interest they have not even paid. We supported the Government on the Lisbon treaty and we have supported the plan to bring down the deficit to 3% by 2014 because it is right that we send the signal to the world that a new Government will...

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is an awful reflection on the Minister's Department.

National Security Committee (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In his reply the Taoiseach stated that due to the confidential nature of the work of the National Security Committee it would not be possible to give the dates, frequency and so on of the meetings of the committee and I understand this. However, given the increased vigilance which is now being applied both in the United States and the United Kingdom with regard to the potential for and...

National Security Committee (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that the Taoiseach cannot go into great detail with regard to levels of security and police co-operation on these matters. In respect of the increased potential for acts of international terrorism and with regard to the increase in dissident activity, has there been an increase in the level of political contact between Ministers here and in Britain? Has there been an increase...

Decentralisation Programme (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the number of members of his staff who have applied for relocation under the decentralisation programme; the number of such staff who have actually transferred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32310/10]

Decentralisation Programme (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach stated that 3,180 staff had been moved to various locations as a result of decentralisation. How many of those staff were moved from Dublin? My understanding is that, to date, approximately half of the re-allocation of staff has been between locations outside Dublin and concerns staff who are already based outside Dublin. The Taoiseach stated that some of the decentralisation...

Decentralisation Programme (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not because we need to know how much double counting is involved. The Taoiseach stated that if somebody moves from Limerick to Wexford, that is a move according to plan. However, if there is a corresponding move by somebody from Wexford back to Limerick or from somewhere else to Limerick to fill the vacancy that arises, that is double counting. My understanding of the original plan...

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I join the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in wishing Dr. Jim McDaid well in his retirement. On yesterday's statement by the Minister for Health and Children in which she announced a voluntary redundancy scheme in the Health Service Executive, from that announcement, it would appear that it is intended to have a scheme for about 4,000 HSE staff. This voluntary redundancy scheme has been a while...

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The issue here is not whether there should be voluntary redundancy scheme. Indeed, this is something the Labour Party has been advocating since the publication of our document on the reform of the HSE as far back as May 2008. The issue is that having delayed until now to bring forward the scheme, is it practical to have it carried out in this short timeframe? Some 4,000 staff in any...

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Quite a process must be followed under the Croke Park agreement, including consulting and making arrangements for re-deployment and so on. Are these dates, 19 November and 30 December, absolute or is it intended that if practical difficulties area encountered in the scheme, the dates will be extended?

Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I join with the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in extending my sympathy and that of the Labour Party to the Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, and his wife, Mary, on their tragic loss. I also join the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in condemning absolutely the assault on the Minister for Health and Children. In the course of a newspaper interview published on Saturday, the Taoiseach indicated the...

Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: For all three or four?

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Later today, there will be a major demonstration of students outside Leinster House. There is a commitment in the revised programme for Government that reads as follows: "Conscious of the economic pressures on parents today, this Government will not proceed with any new scheme of student contribution to Third Level education." That commitment has been interpreted by the partners in...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree there must be a sustainable strategy in respect of the public finances and growth. The Taoiseach seeks to suggest the commitment made in the programme for Government was made in a different economic environment. The commitment was made in the revised programme for Government, published on 10 October 2009. This does not date to before the banking crisis but was produced at a time...