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Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I can discuss any of the Bills if the Deputy wishes.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I will bring a Bill to amend our existing European Communities legislation before the House early in the new year. It will address two matters. First, it will tidy up the issue of the number of Members of the European Parliament, in the aftermath of the Lisbon treaty. Second, it will enable further legislation to be introduced by the Minister for Finance with regard to the European...

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Bill is on the C list. I do not have a date for its publication.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not aware of any legislation. No proposals for legislation on the matter have been brought to the Government.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a matter for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to respond directly on the matter.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The legislation that was promised by the Minister for Justice and Equality is not being proceeded with on the basis of advice from the Office of the Attorney General. As the Deputy is aware, the Minister for Finance has announced some measures to address the difficulties that are being faced by people who cannot negotiate their rents downwards. He has given NAMA a direction requiring it to...

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not the practice to publish such advice. The Office of the Attorney General advises the Government on its legislative intentions. It is not the practice to publish its advice on legislation.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: That is very rich coming from Deputy Ó Cuív, since his party proposed €300 million extra in cuts and €190 million extra in cuts in the social welfare budget than were actually implemented by this Government. We are in very difficult times and everybody understands that. This Government succeeded in bringing in a budget that does not increase tax on working people and does not,...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is inaccurate. The budget does not target women; that is simply untrue.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: He is making an unfounded political charge.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There have been no cuts in the basic rates of social welfare payments, including pensions. The rates of pensions are the same after this budget as they were before it. It is the first time in more than three years that we have not had cuts in social welfare rates. The Government of which Deputy Ó Cuív was a member introduced cut after cut in basic social welfare rates. Let us understand...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is trying to conflate the number of contributions required and to make a case on that basis. The contribution rate for pensions is €260.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: That is the equivalent of five years' work-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----which can be made up, in the case of married persons, from the contribution rates of either party.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy should stop making assertions that are untrue. Basic social welfare rates have not been cut in this budget.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The cuts the Deputy implemented amounted to €190 million more than those implemented by this Government.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: To correct Deputy McDonald, the pupil-teacher ratio in primary schools has not been increased.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is remarkable that the best the Opposition can do in attacking the budget is to make things up.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The pupil-teacher ratio has not been changed in the budget. What the Deputy is referring to is a situation of legacy posts in a number of schools. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, is very well aware that some schools will be particularly impacted by the withdrawal of legacy disadvantaged posts. For that reason, he met with a group of school principals on Tuesday in...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I think Deputy McDonald is either hard of hearing or is simply heedless.