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Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No, that is the reason. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for drawing attention to this because it is the reason I am opposing this measure. We will not have an opportunity, as he said, to debate all these matters because the proposal from the Government is to guillotine the debate on it. On top of the insult that is being added to injury, this morning we learned that the senior executives in...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It was difficult to listen to the Minister for Social Protection, God help us, this morning, on the one hand trying to explain to people why their allowances and payments under social welfare were being cut-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and then offering post-hoc justification as to why these bonuses will be paid. What did they get the bonuses for?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On the proposal to the deal with the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill, the measure to cut the minimum wage is at the end of the legislation. As Deputy Penrose pointed out yesterday, the arrangements the Government proposes for the taking of the Bill will mean, in practice, that it is unlikely the Dáil will have an opportunity to specifically address the cut in the...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am pointing out the reason we need more time to debate the Bill. These are the types of issues the House needs to be debate but we will not have an opportunity to do so. The Minister for Finance stated that those on the new national minimum wage will not be brought into the tax net. On page C30 of the budgetary documentation, we are informed that the universal social charge, which will...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: People on the minimum wage will be brought into the tax net. The effect of what the Government is doing is to reduce by €40 per week the earnings of a person working 40 hours per week and to take from these earnings €8.42 on the universal social charge. This will bring the national minimum wage for someone working 40 hours per week to below €300 per week, specifically to €297.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The measures mean that someone working 40 hours per week on the new national minimum wage will receive less than the average bonus being paid to AIB executives, which is being allowed by the Government.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The arrangements before us have been made because the Government wants to kill debate on a measure that will take almost €50 per week from people on the national minimum wage.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise two matters. First, Deputy Shortall asked the Minister for Finance to correct the record of the House relating to the statement he made during his Budget Statement that people on the new national minimum wage would not be brought into the tax net. It is clear from the way in which the universal social charge is being applied that it is a tax and that as a result, people on...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----in the new year. Is that the case? Will the Tánaiste confirm what Deputy Gogarty is telling us, namely, that there will be no other legislation in the new year-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and that the Green Party will be withdrawing from Government, as it had indicated, in January?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am trying to find out what is going on. I do not care who answers. The only thing I care about is that we can rely on the answer this time. We got an answer on 22 November that the Greens were going to pull out of Government and that there would be a general election in January. Is that still the case?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is different.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Arising from that, what are the arrangements for dealing with the Finance Bill?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I want-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: To clarify, when will the Finance Bill be published? When we come back at the beginning of January, will the Finance Bill be the first item of business the House will deal with?

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the way the proposals contained in the National Recovery Plan, 2011- 2014 will impact on his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45172/10]

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the way it is intended to achieve the savings in his group of Votes set out in the National Recovery Plan 2011-2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45173/10]

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he has drafted an action plan under the Croke Park Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45954/10]

National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his Department's estimates for 2011 [46961/10]