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Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: In addition, we will continue to pursue the strategy we have engaged in since the Government took office.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It involves generating investment and bringing jobs into this country.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It would be better for the people who are without work, or are in danger of losing work-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----if the Deputies opposite occasionally expressed a bit of support for that in the national interest.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: When the Government came into office earlier this year, we inherited a pensions system that was in crisis. This was reflected in the programme earlier this week. There is approximately a €10 billion to €15 billion hole in certain private sector defined benefit pension schemes. We know some of the demographic reasons that this is the case and some of the trends that are in the system....

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, last weekend announced that her Department is initiating a study with the Pensions Board and the Central Bank on the level of pension charges and expenses associated with different forms of private pension arrangements. She is determined that employers and members of pension schemes should get value for money. The Government launched...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy may take it that the Government will move to ensure we have a pensions regime in this country that does not make managers rich and pensioners poor. We want to ensure that consumers get value for every euro they put into their pension schemes. We cannot tolerate a situation where the pensions industry takes too big a share out of the consumer's pension, especially when the State...

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 14, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council creating a European account preservation order to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters, back from committee; No. 15, statements on the report by the interdepartmental working group on mortgage arrears (resumed); and No. 4,...

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: First, the Deputy is mistaken. It is not intended that the Government will decide on the tax and expenditure measures for next year-----

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not intended that the Government will decide on that matter next week. That is the first inaccuracy. Second, the House has already been informed by the Taoiseach that in the first week of November the Government will publish the medium-term budget plan-----

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----which will detail the proposed tax and spending policies between 2012 and 2015.

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: On 10 November the Government will publish the capital spending plan. On 17 November it will publish the various public service reforms identified in the comprehensive review of spending. On 1 December the detailed spending Estimates for 2012 will be published and the budget will be announced on 6 December. I should point out to the Deputy that the publication of all this material in...

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Fianna Fáil did not announce the spending Estimates in advance of the budget.

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It announced the budget, after which its Ministers went off to make their spending announcements at press conferences at 6 p.m or 7 p.m. on budget day.

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The difference this time is that the Government will put its spending proposals, the spending strategy and the information pertaining to it before the House in advance of the budget-----

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----which is in marked contrast to the manner in which-----

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----Fianna Fáil used to conceal the information until the day of the budget.

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The spending review process is new. It is a new way of bringing forward and approaching the Estimates.

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The publication of the outcome of the comprehensive spending review will take the form indicated to the House. Dates have been set for the publication of various parts. This is being done in advance of the budget and it is the largest amount of information on spending proposals ever been put before the House, after which Deputy Ó Cuív can respond to it.

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: No, it is a "Yes".