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European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "supports the Government in its efforts to secure an agreement at this week's meeting of the European Council that fully protects Irish interests and that contributes to the restoration of stability in the Euro area." I am pleased to respond on behalf of the Government to the motion which has been...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not a direct negative: it is a restatement.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a bit rich of Deputy Ó Cuív to argue about the amount of time that is available for the Social Welfare Bill this year.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: When Deputy Ó Cuív was no less than Minister for Social Protection himself this time last year, a total of seven hours was provided over two days for the debate on the Social Welfare Bill. The amount that is being provided for this year is 50% more than that.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Second, the total amount of reductions in the social welfare budget this year is €190 million less than what the previous Government had pencilled in for 2012.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is wrong on two counts. There is an Order of Business. The proposal is that the House sit tomorrow to deal with the Social Welfare Bill. There is an Order of Business tomorrow. No guillotine is provided for the Social Welfare Bill today. In effect, what the Deputies are arguing for, perversely, is that there would not be a sitting of the Dáil tomorrow to deal with the Social...

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The proposal is that there be a sitting of the Dáil tomorrow.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Members should read the proposal; it is that the Dáil shall sit tomorrow. That is what the Members opposite oppose. Do they want to finish the Bill today? That would be the effect of their vote; that there would be even less time to debate the Social Welfare Bill.

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations: Referral to Joint Committee (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2011, a copy of which Order in draft was laid before Dáil Éireann on 7th December, 2011, be referred to the Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture, in accordance with Standing Order 82A(4)(j), which, not later than 15th December,...

Estimates for Public Services 2011 (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I move the following Supplementary Estimates:

Vote 37 - Army Pensions (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I move the following Supplementary Estimate:

Membership of Committee: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: That Deputy Thomas P. Broughan be discharged from the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and that Deputy Michael McNamara be appointed in substitution for him. That Deputy Patrick Nulty be discharged from the Select Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture and that Deputy Ann Phelan be appointed in substitution for him.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The European Council meeting which will take place this evening and tomorrow is, as Deputy Ó Cuív stated, a hugely important meeting to address the difficulties we have seen over a period of time in the eurozone. It is important to state that the formal proposals before the meeting are those developed by the President of the European Council, Mr. Van Rompuy, which he was asked to do in...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to make it absolutely clear that as far as this Government is concerned there is, and will be, no dictation of policy by either one member state or a small number of them concerning issues that have to be decided at the European Council. This is a European Union of 27 member states and the decisions have to be arrived at on a collective basis. There is a very difficult situation and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a pity that Deputy Doherty insists on spoiling by naked aggression what would otherwise be very good and valid issues that he raises. He says, for example, that this Government has done nothing in the budget for those on the dole, but we have protected the level of social welfare payments to those on jobseeker's allowance and basic social welfare payment rates.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Secondly, we have included in the budget proposals a whole range of measures which are designed to get people back to work, get business moving again and get our economy to grow again.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: When Deputy Doherty says, for example, that we have abandoned people in mortgage difficulties, he flies in the face of the truth. The reality is that in the budget we have increased the level of mortgage interest relief for people who bought at the height of the boom. The Minister for Finance made it clear that the measures contained in the Keane report will be implemented. There will be...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: This is the first Government that brought in the banks and addressed with them, face to face, the issue of passing on interest rate reductions.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: These were the same banks that Deputy Doherty, in fulsome language, was so happy to guarantee a mere three years ago. I want to be absolutely clear that this Government is dealing with the issue of mortgage difficulties. We have increased the level of mortgage interest relief for people who bought at the height of the boom. We have established a working group to deal with the issue of...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Doherty need be in no doubt that this Government will act decisively, forcefully and effectively with the banks-----