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- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Regarding the timetabling of Bills, my understanding is that the Government Whip has offered the Opposition-----
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----the opportunity to timetable the different Stages of Bills. This is something that has been done in the Dáil previously. Where legislation needs to be worked through, the Minister handling the Bill and Opposition spokespersons agree to a certain amount of time for Second Stage-----
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy, please.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not misleading the Dáil.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: If the Opposition is willing in general to timetable the different Stages of Bills, the grouping of amendments and so on, the Government is open to doing so, but we must get through our legislative programme. Second, this is clearly about politics, given the contributions of Deputies Martin and McDonald.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Both Deputies referred to privatisation. This is a Bill to set up a State-owned company in which to vest the water resources of this country.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Let us understand this.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: If the best that the Opposition can do-----
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----in criticising this legislation is to stand facts on their heads, then let us understand clearly what the Bill is about.
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is about establishing a State company-----
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----that will own the water resources of this country, which-----
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----will be retained in public ownership-----
- Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----under a modern framework of a State-owned company. Nothing displays the bankruptcy of the Opposition more than describing a Bill that is about setting up a State company as some kind of privatisation.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am happy to answer the question but the Deputy should listen to the answer. The new property tax is nowhere near as high as the property tax that Sinn Féin has no difficulty in defending north of the Border. Sinn Féin's hypocrisy has no boundaries, either in terms of debate or territory. As far as the collection of the property tax is concerned, there are well established...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----it will encourage householders to be compliant with the tax.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The method of collecting taxes and the powers available to the Revenue Commissioners in cases where a tax is not paid are well known.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The question is whether Sinn Féin supports them.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: In light of concerns expressed last year, the Department of Education and Skills requested that the National Council for Guidance Education, NCGE, carry out a review of schools' provision for guidance. The NCGE surveyed schools in March 2012 before the budget measure was introduced and the following October after its introduction. While its final report will be published in the coming...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Admirable work is done in schools. Work is done all the time at one-to-one level between individual teachers and students in cases where a teacher is either told of a particular problem or senses there is a problem and decides to act. The work done by school principals and guidance counsellors is far-reaching. This is an issue to which the Minister for Education and Skills has given...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This is not a cut at all.