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Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: None of us particularly wants to take that route.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has made it clear from the outset that the strategy to economic recovery requires growth. For this reason, the Taoiseach wrote to the President of the European Council last year and set out a growth strategy. It is for this reason that a growth agenda was agreed at the January summit-----

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and growth was written into the text of the treaty on which we are voting. The treaty is about promoting growth, job creation, competitiveness and social cohesion.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: In this light, we welcome the election of a new French President who wants to accelerate the growth agenda.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: What has happened in Greece, which Deputy McDonald appears to be welcoming, is not something that the people of this country would welcome, given the levels of social unrest and political instability on top of that country's economic difficulties.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin and others invited our Government to take Greece's route only six months ago. Does Sinn Féin still advise that?

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We are taking our route to recovery. It means investor confidence and continued inward investment.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: To promote the growth agenda being discussed in Europe, we need stability in the European economy and the euro.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: For this reason, we need to vote "Yes" on 31 May.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Boyd Barrett made a momentous announcement this week when he informed us that his alternative to the treaty is an additional €10 billion in taxes. He would double the amount taken in income tax and on top of that he wants to collapse the euro. Where does he think that will leave us?

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It may be that what is happening in Greece is a cause for arousal in Deputy Boyd Barrett or some other Members of this House.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: However, that is not the route sensible people in this country want to go. The route we want to take is of working our way out of the economic difficulty in which we have found ourselves. In order to do that we have to attract investment and jobs. We are succeeding in that and we want to continue our success. In order to continue that success, there must be confidence in Ireland, the euro...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is wrong in a number of respects. He is wrong to allege this Government has increased taxes on people on lower incomes. We did not increase tax in the budget.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We took 330,000 people out of the universal charge and we reversed the cut in the national minimum wage. We are not required to contribute €11 billion to the ESM. That figure is the amount that may be called upon. It is different to the amount that countries are required to contribute up front. This country's contribution to the ESM is less than 1.6% of the total fund.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The immediate issue for this country is maintaining access to the ESM. The eurozone needs to have an emergency fund to support its members. That is the function of the ESM.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not unreasonable that every member of the eurozone should contribute to it. The primary issue for Ireland is to be able to access it if we need it. If the treaty is defeated we will not be able to access it.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: My comrades in Europe, as Deputy Boyd Barrett described them, are in favour of growth. This Government has argued consistently that we also need a growth strategy because the treaty is not sufficient on its own to allow the European economy to recover. That is why we put growth on the agenda before the treaty was negotiated. It is the reason growth is contained in the text of the treaty...

Order of Business (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 22, Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed) to adjourn at 1.30 p.m. today, if not previously concluded; No. 23, statements on the update on Ireland's chairmanship-in-office of the OSCE; and No. 21, Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing...

Order of Business (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: As the Deputy is aware, all Departments are required to present their statement of strategy to Government setting out the Department's objectives and strategies to meet the programme for Government commitments set for the Department. One of the reforms the Government introduced at the beginning of its term of office was to make changes in the Department of Finance, making two separate...

Order of Business (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The commitments in the programme for Government will, of course, be fully implemented. As the Deputy is aware, a number of important pieces of legislation from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation relating to the rights of workers are being progressed. One is the legislation giving rights to agency workers and there is also legislation on the joint labour committees and the...