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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Oversight (15 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government’s new development policy, “One World, One Future”, sets out the vision, goals and priorities for our overseas aid programme over the coming four years. The policy includes a clear commitment to accountability and transparency, to the Irish people and to our development partners in what we do, how we work, and what we are achieving. It states clearly that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Remit (15 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware of the situation concerning the person referred to by the Deputy. As he is not an Irish citizen it is not possible for my Department to offer him consular assistance. The Greek authorities are under no legal obligation to assist our Embassy with any requests made in connection with this case, as we have no locus standi in the matter. However, on hearing of his detention, and...

Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: That term is not used in the letter.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Where does it say logjam?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Where does it say logjam?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy made that up.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Mattie McGrath should change the dial.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This is the budget that will take us out of the troika bailout. It will underpin recovery and help to create more jobs. It does everything possible for hard-pressed families and is pointing the way to a better future. When the Government took office 31 months ago, the country was faced with the worst economic crisis in its history. Our economic sovereignty had been surrendered; 250,000...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: By reducing the adjustment by €600 million, we have made this a much less difficult budget than it might have been. Even so, Ministers still faced difficult decisions, and there are no easy options left in any Department. All the big spending Departments - Health, Social Protection, Justice and Equality and Education and Skills - have been through a long period of retrenchment. As...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There have been difficult decisions but there have also been important achievements. Education has always been a core priority, and for a third year in a row we have protected the pupil-teacher ratio. This year there have been no cuts to the budgets for schools, and an additional 1,250 teachers will be recruited next year. When we came to office there was no money left to run the schools,...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: It was Fianna Fáil that imposed unilateral wage cuts on public servants, but this Government negotiated an agreement with the public sector trade unions.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Fianna Fáil would have required an extra €1.5 billion in social welfare cuts over the past three years under its four-year plan.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The budget we are introducing today requires €600 million less in cuts and taxes because this Government renegotiated the rate of interest on the programme loans, which Fianna Fáil argued could not be done. Fianna Fáil just want people to forget the past and ignore the reality that the difficulties of the last six years were brought down on the heads of the Irish people by...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: They talk here about job creation when they destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs and did nothing to help those coming onto the dole queues. This Government has never made any attempt to hide from the Irish people the scale of our problems, and we have never been in any doubt that the stability we have achieved has required measures which have been difficult for many families. Nobody in...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Literacy and numeracy are the foundations of learning and freedom, which is why it is right to support families in meeting the costs of education. There are other important social initiatives in this budget. We have provided the resources to restart the construction of social housing and there is funding to tackle some of the worst problems of the bubble era, including Priory Hall, the...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy knows more about thieves than we do.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Guiding Principles (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: On 16 June 2011, the UN Human Rights Council endorsed "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework”. The Commission Communication of October 2011, entitled “A renewed EU strategy 2011-14 for Corporate Social Responsibility” invited EU member States to develop national plans for the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Legislative Programme (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I sponsored two items of legislation in 2012 - the European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 and the Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012. Regulatory Impact Assessments are carried out on all legislation as necessary. However, most of the legislation brought forward by my Department does not...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This budget takes us out of the bailout programme. When we think back to where we started from and the worries people had about whether the State would be able to continue making social welfare payments and the extent to which it would continue to be able to make old age payments, pay secondary benefits and so on, being able to get out of the bailout programme without cutting basic social...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Fiction.