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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...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (29 Feb 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: As I have said recently, the Government has closely followed the reported violent events in areas of Tibetan population in Chinese provinces neighbouring Tibet and is concerned about the situation. Since 1971, when Ireland voted in favour of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, this country has recognised the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (29 Feb 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The total number of passport applications received and the number of applications for which additional information was sought for the period 2007 to 24 February 2012 is detailed as follows. Year Applications Add. Info. 2007 608,740 90,279 2008 581,954 82,684 2009 576,486 66,291 2010 614,284 61,040 2011 608,051 71,895 2012 99,641 8,966 It is not possible to quantify the average time...

Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (29 Feb 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin must have been disappointed.

Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (29 Feb 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I did not. I never went to the US ambassador and never talked to him about it.

Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (29 Feb 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy should not believe everything he reads in the media.

Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (29 Feb 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin voted on that.

Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (29 Feb 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Where does it do that? In what paragraph does it do that? The Deputy is making this up.