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Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: People losing their jobs is a very serious matter.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: People are very worried this morning about losing their jobs and the consequences for them.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It needs to be taken a little more seriously than just the kind of political opportunism Deputy McDonald is engaged in.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government is in discussions with the company in question and those discussions will continue.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The State agencies will continue to support the workers in the company.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I have given my views on how the company has handled the situation.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: We will do everything we can to minimise job losses in the company.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: In addition, we will continue to pursue the strategy we have engaged in since the Government took office.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It involves generating investment and bringing jobs into this country.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It would be better for the people who are without work, or are in danger of losing work-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----if the Deputies opposite occasionally expressed a bit of support for that in the national interest.

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: When the Government came into office earlier this year, we inherited a pensions system that was in crisis. This was reflected in the programme earlier this week. There is approximately a €10 billion to €15 billion hole in certain private sector defined benefit pension schemes. We know some of the demographic reasons that this is the case and some of the trends that are in the system....

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, last weekend announced that her Department is initiating a study with the Pensions Board and the Central Bank on the level of pension charges and expenses associated with different forms of private pension arrangements. She is determined that employers and members of pension schemes should get value for money. The Government launched...

Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy may take it that the Government will move to ensure we have a pensions regime in this country that does not make managers rich and pensioners poor. We want to ensure that consumers get value for every euro they put into their pension schemes. We cannot tolerate a situation where the pensions industry takes too big a share out of the consumer's pension, especially when the State...

Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 14, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council creating a European account preservation order to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters, back from committee; No. 15, statements on the report by the interdepartmental working group on mortgage arrears (resumed); and No. 4,...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (19 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Since 2006, the Irish Government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Emigrant Support Programme, has been a key funder of the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith. In that period, the Centre has received over £1 million in grants in support of a range of its education, cultural, seniors and youth activities. I understand that following the decision of the Hammersmith and...

Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (18 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: An invitation has not issued nor is one currently under active consideration. As to the other matters raised in the question, I would refer the Deputy to the Statement of 8 September by the Government of Ireland on the response of the Holy See regarding the report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, which states The Government of Ireland thanks the Holy...

Written Answers — Global Irish Economic Forum: Global Irish Economic Forum (18 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The first meeting of the Global Irish Economic Forum was held at the Farmleigh Estate in Dublin from 18-20 September, 2009. It was convened by the then Government with two broad goals: to explore how the Irish at home and abroad could work together and contribute to our economic recovery; and to examine ways in which Ireland and its global community could develop a more strategic...

Written Answers — Croke Park Agreement: Croke Park Agreement (18 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Public Service Agreement, 2010-2014 (the Croke Park agreement) provides a framework for public service management and staff to work together to reduce the cost of delivery of public services while also maintaining or improving the quality of those services. An Implementation Body was established to drive the implementation of the Agreement across all sectors and ensure that early, robust...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Oct 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There are no State agencies under the aegis of my Department. However, I can advise the Deputy that three individuals who retired from the former Agency for Personal Service Overseas (APSO), which was integrated into my Department in 2004, are in receipt of pensions direct from the Department. The annual amount in each case is less than €35,000.