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Departmental Staff (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has the Green Party back in his pocket.

Departmental Staff (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: An excuse to stay in power.

Departmental Staff (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Every excuse.

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 290: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on his meeting in Dublin on 9 November 2010 with EU Commissioner, Ollie Rehn [45170/10]

Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance the nature and extent of asset disposals expected in 2011 by the National Asset Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1377/11]

Written Answers — National Recovery Plan: National Recovery Plan (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 289: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the publication of the National Recovery Plan 2011 – 2014 [45171/10]

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise a number of issues relating to the Order of Business. The Order of Business before us is pathetic. What is going on in this Chamber this morning is frankly surreal. People in this country are struggling to survive, want to get back to work and have been hit with a big whack of an increase in Vhi premiums on top of the damage done to their pay packets and incomes this month....

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It reminds me of what Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh said about hurling in Fermanagh and the Fiji Islands. Anglo Irish Bank was hardly noted for lending to small business. We have a Taoiseach who lacks credibility, a Government, many of whose members are not standing for re-election-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to know from the Tánaiste the Government's timetable for the legislation we were told would be taken. We need to have some certainty and clarity about the timetable for the completion of the legislation that arises from the budget. We also need an assurance from the Government that it will not find one excuse after the other to delay the inevitable, that is, the fresh start, people...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I asked a question about the Order of Business. Yesterday the Chief Whip published a list of legislation, some of which is legislation about which the Government has been distinctly unenthusiastic for the past three years. Suddenly it is very important and must be enacted before the general election. Will the Tánaiste answer the following question clearly? Will she list the legislation...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I am just looking for clarity. Am I to understand from that answer that the only legislation the Government intends to enact before the dissolution of the Dáil are the four pieces the Tánaiste outlined and that the other legislation referred to will be stuck in here, there or wherever to fill the order but that it is not necessarily the Government's intention to have them enacted before...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I am sorry-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I am just looking for clarity. I will keep this simple. We were told the House would come back after Christmas to deal with the legislation which arose from the budget. We expected that to be one piece of legislation, namely, the Finance Bill. The Government has now widened that. We have been told four pieces of legislation must be enacted arising from the budget. In terms of the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the total number of employees of the Health Service Executive who have been accepted for the redundancy-retirement scheme recently announced; the categories of employment of these workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1543/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children in view of the smaller than expected numbers who have taken the early retirement-redundancy scheme, if it is intended to reduce management and administrative staff in the Health Service Executive by any other means; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1544/11]

Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the renewed Programme for Government [48347/10]

Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: When the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy John Gormley, announced in November that his party would withdraw from Government and a general election would be called by the end of January, he effectively made the programme for Government redundant. Following that announcement, was there any discussion between the two parties in Government to identify which...

Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Will that report address the issue of appointments to State boards? The programme for Government was very clear that it was intended that legislation would be introduced to provide a new procedure for the making of appointments to State boards, which would include the advertising of the vacancies concerned. I note that over the Christmas recess the Government stuffed State boards and that...

Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I deduce from the Taoiseach's response that we will not see the legislation the Government promised in the programme for Government to provide a new procedure for the making of State appointments. However, as I understand it from the Taoiseach's reply it will never see the light of day during the lifetime of this Government. Why is legislation needed? Why after almost four years in office...

Programmes for Government (18 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is dining out on it anyway.