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Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The criticism may be made that one can come into the House and make a speech and so on. The proof of the pudding is what we have done as a Government and the follow-up we have given to the Cloyne report. After 14 years when, to be honest, not a great deal was happening in this area, we have produced the first legislation-----

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We have produced the legislation which will underpin the Children First guidelines.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: That legislation is hugely robust and is before a committee of the Houses at present. In addition, because there has been this ambiguity about what happens where things are not reported, whether they can be reported, or whether there is some kind of a parallel system of justice that operates somewhere under some other system of law, whether it is called canon law or whatever, and that...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I can do better than that. I can tell Sinn Féin what the Government has already done. The very first decision the Government took was to cut the pay of politicians. We cut the pay of the Taoiseach, of every Minister in the Government and of TDs. What TDs and Senators are paid in this Dáil is considerably less than what they had been paid in the previous Dáil. We also cut the payments...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Those claims, of course, do not include the rather extravagant claim of ink cartridges that was claimed by Sinn Féin.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the Seanad, the Government is proposing the constitutional amendment-----

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: -----on which we intend to have a referendum under which it is proposed to abolish the Seanad. Deputy McDonald may indicate to the House in her reply where she stands on that question. With regard to the issue of employment, the Government is very focused on getting investment and employment into this country. We have, over recent weeks, had a considerable amount of success in this area....

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: -----Mylan - 500 jobs in north Dublin; Microsoft - a $130 million investment in Dublin; Hewlett Packard - 280 jobs in Galway and Kildare; Abbott Pharmaceuticals - 175 jobs in Sligo; Amgen - 100 jobs in Dún Laoghaire; and there is another announcement of 250 jobs again today. Of course, we intend to continue with that work to get the level of unemployment down and to get people back into...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not take home €200,000. There is a difference-----

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a difference between gross pay and take home pay. Let us be clear about it. This Government has cut the take home pay of people at senior level in politics by approximately 44%. That is the total cut in take home pay. There is a limit to the amount of hypocrisy we can take from the Sinn Féin party on this question.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: That party sees nothing wrong with having its members take a salary from a parliament they do not attend at all.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: They take considerable expenses from a parliament they do not attend. The Sinn Féin party is at the top end of the expenses claimed by Members. Anyone can examine the league tables because they have all been published. One finds consistently that Sinn Féin is at the top end of those claims. Interestingly, its representatives are at the top end in most constituencies when compared with...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: When Sinn Féin Members are in a position to address that level of hypocrisy, then they can come and make charges against us.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no ambiguity and I am happy to answer the question directly. The position is that the programme Ireland is in, the EU-IMF-ECB programme, the programme with the troika, will remain in place. It will continue and will be honoured until it expires at the end of 2013. It is the Government's hope and intention that by that stage we will be back in the markets and we will be able to say...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Payments from the European financial stability facility, EFSF, will continue to be honoured up to that point. The European Stability Mechanism, the permanent emergency fund for the euro, will come into effect once 90% of the capital has been provided for it. It is due to come into effect in July 2012. After the end of our programme, the only emergency funding available to the country will...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The position is-----

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The only emergency funding available once the programme is over at the end of 2013 will be from the European Stability Mechanism. To ensure we have access to that if we need it, it is necessary to ratify the treaty.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: No, that option is not open to us. Let us be absolutely clear about it: it is clear in the treaty that the EFSF is prepared to continue funding that is already committed to under the existing programme. That programme finishes at the end of 2013. The Government's intention is that we will be back in the markets at that stage. To get back in to the markets we must get our economy to...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: That investor confidence-----

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Pringle has asked be a straight and important question.