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Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: There is nothing timid about it.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Martin has raised an issue which the Government has well under control. We have published the action plan for jobs, we have set out the kind of funds that will be established in order to provide credit and start-up capital and to help business to create jobs.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Clearly, the banks have a critical role. It is a condition of the recapitalisation of the banks that they are to lend to small and medium-sized businesses-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and that they lend to people trying to get mortgages. The Government is way ahead of Deputy Martin in this regard.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is asking about something that is already being done-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and I can assure the Deputy that the Government will continue to do that. No stone will be left unturned so that credit is provided to small and medium-sized businesses and that the funding being provided through the European Central Bank works its way through the economy in order to create jobs.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Some of that sounds like the draft text for a leaflet.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I see that Deputy McDonald-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy McDonald is doing a lot of reading this morning. Paper never refuses ink and neither, apparently, does Sinn Féin.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The document to which Deputy McDonald referred says a number of things. It is a staff document, as I understand, prepared by some staff in the European Commission and which was leaked. However, it has a number of positive observations about this country. It says that the Irish economy is expected to have returned to growth in 2011. It states that our general Government deficit is...

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The document will be published today. I hate to disappoint the Deputy but a mini budget will not be necessary. I am unhappy at the way in which this document was handled and how it was leaked. The matter has been raised this morning with both the German finance ministry and with the European Commission. I intend to pursue the issue. I will discuss it with our ambassador in Berlin and I...

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I never give trivial answers. I do not trivialise what has happened to our economy or the difficulties people have in coping with the consequences of what has happened to it, including the loss of jobs. There are people in Cork this morning, for example, who are being asked for voluntary redundancies. I am acutely aware of that, as is the Government.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: That is why our programme and strategy is to work our way to economic recovery. That cannot be done by some kind of abracadabra economics which Deputy McDonald seems to advocate from time to time. It must be done consistently and over a period of time. She talks about people external to this country. The reality, given the state of the economy we inherited this time last year, was that...

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: To be honest, I do not know whether Deputy Ross is for or against the referendum. He came in here when we announced we were holding it and I think he told us he was going to oppose it. Now he seems to be suggesting that he might support it in certain circumstances. Let me tell Deputy Ross something.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not know how he sees Irish diplomacy working but I will tell him how I see it working. We will not trade the constitutional rights of the Irish people with anybody or for anything. The referendum we will have is one for the Irish people to decide whether they want to ratify the treaty concluded on 30 January. Treaty or no treaty, we will continue the discussions we had already begun...

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has a record of success in the renegotiation of the entire bailout arrangements and the deal done with the EU and the IMF. Despite the scepticism of some Members, we successfully negotiated significant reductions in the interest rate for the financial arrangements, which is worth €10 billion to the Irish people.

Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We continue to be engaged in talks with the troika to explore possible ways to re-engineer the promissory notes and find a less expensive solution for the people by, for example, replacing them with other financial instruments with long maturity. The discussions are under way and we continue with that work. The Minister for Social Protection made it very clear in her interview that...

Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 2, Jurisdiction of Courts and Enforcement of Judgements (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad] - Second and Subsequent Stages; and No. 1, Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed).

Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that, in respect of No. 2, the proceedings on the Second Stage shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 1 p.m. today; the opening speech of a Minister or Minister of State and of the main spokespersons for Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Technical Group, who shall be called upon in that order, shall not...

Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: -----the Second Stage of which shall be considered tomorrow, the opening speeches of the main spokespersons for the Technical Group, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, and of a Minister or Minister of State, who shall be called upon in that order, shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case; the speech of each other Member called upon shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case; Members may share time; a...