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Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a list of prominent economists who have written about this over the last 24 hours. Willem Buiter, the chief economist of Citigroup, stated that "accessing external sources of funds will not mark the end of Ireland's troubles". Professor Eichengreen of Berkeley stated that the "Irish rescue package finalised over the weekend is a disaster". Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate in...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is the whole point. This has never-----

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: You may not want to allow us discuss this, but we will not allow this to happen. This is a sell-out of our country. It is a surrender by the Government of this country's sovereignty, of its right to make its own decisions, determine its own budgets and the Labour Party,-----

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----whoever else will want to be bound by this, will not be bound by this document.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to respond to the Tánaiste's question.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to answer the question.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In the midst of the most serious economic difficulty that has faced the State, described in the letter which the Minister for Finance proposes to send to the European institutions and to the IMF, as, " an economic crisis without parallel in [Ireland's] recent history", we are now being presented with a proposal that will occupy valuable Dáil time when we should be debating the economic...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the Tánaiste's challenge to me at an earlier stage in the proceedings, I have a question for her. Who wrote these letters to the IMF, the EU and the ECB? They read like letters that were written and then presented to the Minister for Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank to be signed at the "X".

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will read out one of the paragraphs of this letter. "At the root of the problem is a domestic banking system which, at its peak, was five times the size of the economy". Five times the size of the economy?

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government told us on the night of the bank guarantee that it was €440 billion.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That was some guarantee. This is an admission that the Government got it wrong from the beginning.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We have been putting up with vague answers from the Government for a long time. One asks a question about when the Dáil will be reconvened and receives an answer to the effect that the Government has not yet decided. One asks when the finance Bill will be introduced and is informed the Government has not yet decided and of what was done last year. That day is over and I will explain why....

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This must be submitted every Friday to the IMF and the EU and report on everything that has been done up to the previous Thursday. The document will contain detail about when legislation is to be presented and so on. In this context we are entitled to hear something other than the traditional vague answers we have received from the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste on these matters. On what date...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It was not always done before Christmas.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It was done last year before Christmas so that Deputy Noel Ahern and his colleagues could go out with their leaflets after Christmas and pretend it was a done deal. That is why it was done.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is being done before Christmas this year because it has been agreed with the EU and the IMF that it should be done before Christmas. Presumably, the date on which the finance Bill will be introduced has already been communicated to the EU and the IMF. They know when the finance Bill will be introduced. We are entitled to know when the finance Bill will be introduced and on what date the...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: You are shouting at Deputy Burton.

Written Answers — Retail Sector: Retail Sector (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on amending the law to require major retail companies operating here to publish company accounts to establish the level of profits they are making, particularly in view of reports that one major retailer (details supplied) makes greater profits here than in any other part of its global empire; and if he will...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he will take to prevent the exploitation of domestic workers, particularly migrant workers in such positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45557/10]

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The version of the Minister, Deputy Gormley, of how the decision was taken, which is now contradicted by the Taoiseach, demonstrates the dysfunctional way in which the Government made the decision on the blanket bank guarantee. It is probably no surprise, therefore, given the uncertainty about how the decision was made that the wrong decision was made. There is now no doubt but that the...