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Order of Business. (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 12, Revised Estimates for Public Services 2011 [Votes 24, 27, 39, 40, 41, 43] (back from committee); No. 13, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a Council decision on the signature of the agreement between the European Union and Australia on the processing and transfer of passenger name record data by air carriers to the Australian Customs and Border...

Order of Business. (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: All these proposals have been debated and considered in the respective committees. That is why we set up a committee system. That is why Members have plenty of opportunity to discuss these issues at committees. These are reports back from committees where these issues have already been discussed.

Order of Business. (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: This Bill provides for a number of reforms in civil law. There is time allocated for this today up to 2 p.m. and I believe that is a sufficient amount of time to deal with it. The Government is anxious that the Bill be dealt with and passed by the House today.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: All of these are pieces of reforming legislation and I would expect Members of the House to support them. One of the proposals, for example, deals with amendments from the Seanad to the child care Bill. I recall last week that Deputy Ó Caoláin specifically asked for those amendments to be made, and they were made in the Seanad.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The House will today agree the amendments made in the Seanad which were proposed by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. It would be somewhat strange for the House to want to delay the implementation of those amendments and important child care legislation.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: No. 17b relates to the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 and the proposal will allow the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to introduce amendments to the Bill which will, for example, deal with the long outstanding issue of the name of Dingle and Daingean Uí Chúis. There are also a number of technical amendments relating to the birds directive.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has a number of pieces of reforming legislation before the House and there is absolutely no reason this legislation should not be enacted. I see no reason for the Opposition, or parts of it, to want to delay the reforms being dealt with.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The purpose of the guillotine is to get legislation through.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a difference.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The difference is that this is good reforming legislation in the public interest.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There are a number of pieces of legislation and, in fairness, Deputy Ó Snodaigh is correct in that these Bills are not being opposed, as I understand it. The times we have set down to conclude the debate on each of the pieces of legislation is to provide a form of discipline for the House to ensure we get through all of them.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: We should acknowledge that the House, since the general election, has sat for 38% longer than was previously the case. The recess that is being proposed for this summer is the shortest that I certainly can recall, and I am in the House 22 years. The date originally proposed by the previous Government for the adjournment of the Dáil for the summer was 7 July and the date for resumption was...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and express the hope that there will be a positive outcome for Ireland from that meeting. I certainly hope that there will be such a positive outcome and if there is, I hope it will be welcomed, not only by those of us who are on the Government side of the House but right across the House. Much work has gone in over a long period of time to reach the point where today, hopefully, this...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Finally, on the issue of workers and the outcome of the High Court decision on the JLCs, as we stated here on a number of occasions the Government is preparing legislation to deal with that issue and we hope to have that legislation before the House early in the new session.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Doherty just voted against the recommendation that I made.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: As far as this Government is concerned, the State will not fail our children. The Government has responded very quickly to the Cloyne report and its implications. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the Minster for Justice and Equality have set out the legislative measures the Government will take, and they will be progressed. The Taoiseach yesterday set out very clearly the...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has not yet set a date for the presidential election. It is intended that the three referenda will be held on the same date as the presidential election and this will mean that the legislative provisions for those referenda will be before the House when we come back. The Taoiseach has given an undertaking to party leaders that...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: When we are in a position to do so, we can communicate a timetable to the Opposition parties. Again, it is for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to set the date and that date has not yet been set.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The information I have been given is that the finance committee will convene next Tuesday at 4 p.m. and that it will consider the outcome of the summit today. First, we do not yet have an outcome. As other Members have said, some summit meetings can be entirely predictable and the issues concern the conclusions that are reached, their form or whether further work must be done later. We...