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Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Again, this issue-----

Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----can be discussed with the Whips.

Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy said the Government is trying to engage in some kind of a con, there is no con here. The Government has made a decision to sell a minority shareholding in the ESB. The situation in Aer Lingus, to which the Deputy referred, is different. In that case the Government decided to sell a majority shareholding in it.

Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has asked the company to extend the period of notice given. In the case of TalkTalk, it was completely unacceptable to give 30 days notice of the company's intention to pull out of Waterford with all of the consequences that has for the employees and the local economy. The legal requirement for notice in any event will be found to be longer than 30 days in the case of many of...

Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Bretton Woods legislation will be handled this session. It is a matter for the House as to when it will be passed. The second Bill will be published today and will be discussed in the House next week. The Minister for Health intends to introduce the legislation on the abolition of the HSE board shortly.

Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government is delivering on its commitment to make changes to the Constitution. Two issues will go to referendum, one of which will be debated today. The intention is to hold them with the presidential election. It is intended to hold some other referenda next year. Work is progressing on them. Some of the matters raised by the Deputy do not require a constitutional change. For...

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta as ucht an fáilte a chur sé roimh an gcinneadh Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí a bheith againn ar an Déardaoin. I am happy to give him clear and concise answers and, in return, I hope the questions will be equally clear and concise. He asked me to respond to the decision he claims the Government has made in respect of selling the remaining share in Aer Lingus....

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I remind the Deputy that we are in a situation whereby we have to consider the sale of State assets because of the hole his Government dug for this country.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: We have renegotiated it.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is remiss of the parties opposite not to acknowledge the success enjoyed by the Government in getting the interest rate reduced.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: From the time the Government was formed last March, they constantly told us it could not be done -----

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and that it would not be done.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It was done on terms that were far in excess of what the parties opposite claimed were possible. The reason the Government has decided to sell a minority share in ESB is because it is necessary to do so in order to deal with our financial problems and generate funding for job creation.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy cannot take it that 49% will be sold. There is already a minority shareholding in the ESB which is held by the staff of the company. As I said earlier, we will not break up the ESB. The Deputy opposite seems to be taking that line of thinking, but there will be no breaking up of the ESB by this Government. It will remain a single entity, which is what is in the national...

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I remind Deputy Adams that his party has made its own unique contribution to the difficulty the country is in and the circumstances this Government inherited last March. The reason money is being paid to the banks is that the State provided a guarantee to those banks, a guarantee which the Deputy's party supported.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputies opposite must remember that when one gives a guarantee it must be honoured.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: This country is in economic difficulty. This Government will get the country out of that economic difficulty.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: All of the decisions we have taken in the first six months of the life of this Government have set the country back on the road to recovery.

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: If one looks at the circumstances the country was in when we formed this Government and considers the progress that has been made, one will see the renegotiation of the deal with the EU and the IMF, the reduction in interest rates, the jobs initiative we have taken-----

Leaders' Question (15 Sep 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has taken various initiatives to bring about economic recovery. In an ideal world we would not want to sell the ESB or any State asset. However, we are not in an ideal world; we are in a world where this country's economy and its finances are in deep trouble. This Government will take the decisions that will get us out of that trouble, get people back to work, get our...