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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: My Department is responsible for two votes - Votes 28 (Foreign Affairs) and 29 (International cooperation – Irish Aid). Advertising undertaken by my Department typically includes: advisory notices on public opening hours over holiday periods, changes in passport application procedures and fees, and public information notices relating to significant developments in the European Union...

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (14 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware that a delegation from the Council for European Palestinian Relations travelled to Gaza last month to highlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Government's position on the blockade of Gaza is well-known. I regard the blockade as it is practised as completely unjust, counter-productive and contrary to international humanitarian law. Ireland has consistently sought,...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: That is very rich coming from Deputy Ó Cuív, since his party proposed €300 million extra in cuts and €190 million extra in cuts in the social welfare budget than were actually implemented by this Government. We are in very difficult times and everybody understands that. This Government succeeded in bringing in a budget that does not increase tax on working people and does not,...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is inaccurate. The budget does not target women; that is simply untrue.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: He is making an unfounded political charge.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There have been no cuts in the basic rates of social welfare payments, including pensions. The rates of pensions are the same after this budget as they were before it. It is the first time in more than three years that we have not had cuts in social welfare rates. The Government of which Deputy Ó Cuív was a member introduced cut after cut in basic social welfare rates. Let us understand...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is trying to conflate the number of contributions required and to make a case on that basis. The contribution rate for pensions is €260.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: That is the equivalent of five years' work-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----which can be made up, in the case of married persons, from the contribution rates of either party.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy should stop making assertions that are untrue. Basic social welfare rates have not been cut in this budget.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The cuts the Deputy implemented amounted to €190 million more than those implemented by this Government.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: To correct Deputy McDonald, the pupil-teacher ratio in primary schools has not been increased.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is remarkable that the best the Opposition can do in attacking the budget is to make things up.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The pupil-teacher ratio has not been changed in the budget. What the Deputy is referring to is a situation of legacy posts in a number of schools. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, is very well aware that some schools will be particularly impacted by the withdrawal of legacy disadvantaged posts. For that reason, he met with a group of school principals on Tuesday in...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I think Deputy McDonald is either hard of hearing or is simply heedless.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is fair enough of Deputy McDonald to raise the issue in the House-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----of the pupil-teacher ratio and the allocation of teachers in disadvantaged schools. However, it is a bit nonsensical that when I give an answer and explain what is being done, she then comes back at me with the same rant she would have given as if I had not given the answer in the first place.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask the Deputy to please listen.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There is an important quality in the work we do as public representatives and that is to have an ability and a capacity to listen. In this case that is a capacity that the Government and, in particular, the Minister for Education and Skills, exercised. When the issue of the way in which the reduction in teacher numbers in disadvantaged schools was going to have an impact was raised with...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The position of pupils in disadvantaged schools, their special needs and requirements, the additional resources required in disadvantaged schools-----