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Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will make a statement on his Department's estimate for 2011 [47258/10]

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to ask the Tánaiste for some information which will determine how the Labour Party will address the seven proposals on which we have to vote. The Government proposes to go into recess today and return on 12 January. On 22 November, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy John Gormley, said his party, "have now reached a point where the Irish people...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am nearly finished.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I sometimes feel that you are on a timer, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It seems that regardless of what I say, the Chair interrupts 19 seconds after I started.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I promise I have almost finished the point I am making.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: With the exception of the members of the Government, perhaps, everybody agrees that the country needs certainty, stability and the election of a strong and stable Government. It is neither desirable nor in the country's interests for that process to be prolonged. Can the Tánaiste give the House the date for the publication of the finance Bill? How long is it intended to spend considering...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In normal circumstances, the proposal before the House would be acceptable. However, there are a number of reasons it is not acceptable. We are not in normal circumstances. The Taoiseach is attending the EU summit this weekend. It is normal when there is a summit that the Taoiseach comes back and reports to the House and we have a debate on what has happened. I believe at a minimum there...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I join the Tánaiste and the deputy leader of Fine Gael in wishing you, a Cheann Comhairle, and all the Members of the Houses a happy Christmas and new year. I include in that wish the staff of the Houses at every level who work so diligently and helpfully with the Members, the political staff of all the political parties and of the Members who work with us, the media who cover the...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and hold it at a later stage. I wish everybody the best for the season.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I was surprised that Deputy Seán Power did not continue the sporting analogy because it is customary, for teams that are in the relegation zone at Christmas, that the board expresses its full confidence in the manager.

Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: So I gather. I referred earlier to the desirability that we should meet next week to hear the Taoiseach's report from the EU summit. The Dáil is not sitting next week so we will not have the opportunity to do that in the House. When he returns from the summit next week, will the Taoiseach circulate the statement he would normally make in the House so we would at least be in a position to...

Written Answers — Literacy-Numeracy Levels: Literacy-Numeracy Levels (16 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 19: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to address the findings of the recent Programme for International Student Assessment, published by the OECD on 7 December 2010; her views on Ireland's 12 place drop in reading literacy rankings in particular; the measures she is taking to put Irish education back into the top ten rankings for...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: This month, everyone who is fortunate to still have a job will open his or her pay packet to find a large hole in it. The same is true for people in receipt of social welfare payments. People who run businesses and put up signs about 50% off this and 60% off that are still having difficulty getting people through their doors. All of this is occurring because of the decision the Government...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: In July, the very month during which the Taoiseach told the House the Quinn issue with Anglo Irish Bank was being resolved, the Taoiseach was playing golf with Mr. FitzPatrick. Given the comments made by the Taoiseach and on his behalf since the weekend, we have been led to believe he constructed some kind of Chinese wall down the fairway between him and Mr. FitzPatrick, in that they never...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Here was a bank, the shares of which had been in trouble since March and the Taoiseach had two opportunities to raise the matter with it. I acknowledge the Taoiseach's comments about formal meetings, the presence of officials and so on. However, it is incredible that the Taoiseach, a man who sat in the Minister for Finance's office and would have a certain amount of knowledge about the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is what the Taoiseach has led us to believe. Let us be clear. First, did the Taoiseach discuss the bank's business at the dinner or the golf outing? Second, will he put on the record of the House all of his contacts with Anglo Irish Bank between the beginning of 2008 and the time of its nationalisation? I am referring to his meetings, formal, informal, social or whatever, with the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I have never made a personal attack on the Taoiseach in this House and I am not going to start now. What I said, and what I stand over, is that if the Taoiseach's Government knew Anglo Irish Bank was insolvent and he asked the Irish taxpayers to bail it out and to pay the cost we are now paying for it, that was and is economic treason. I stand over that. The Taoiseach responds to me with a...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: None.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: At all?