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Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to know from the Tánaiste the Government's timetable for the legislation we were told would be taken. We need to have some certainty and clarity about the timetable for the completion of the legislation that arises from the budget. We also need an assurance from the Government that it will not find one excuse after the other to delay the inevitable, that is, the fresh start, people...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I asked a question about the Order of Business. Yesterday the Chief Whip published a list of legislation, some of which is legislation about which the Government has been distinctly unenthusiastic for the past three years. Suddenly it is very important and must be enacted before the general election. Will the Tánaiste answer the following question clearly? Will she list the legislation...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I am just looking for clarity. Am I to understand from that answer that the only legislation the Government intends to enact before the dissolution of the Dáil are the four pieces the Tánaiste outlined and that the other legislation referred to will be stuck in here, there or wherever to fill the order but that it is not necessarily the Government's intention to have them enacted before...

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I am sorry-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I am just looking for clarity. I will keep this simple. We were told the House would come back after Christmas to deal with the legislation which arose from the budget. We expected that to be one piece of legislation, namely, the Finance Bill. The Government has now widened that. We have been told four pieces of legislation must be enacted arising from the budget. In terms of the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: This month, everyone who is fortunate to still have a job will open his or her pay packet to find a large hole in it. The same is true for people in receipt of social welfare payments. People who run businesses and put up signs about 50% off this and 60% off that are still having difficulty getting people through their doors. All of this is occurring because of the decision the Government...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: In July, the very month during which the Taoiseach told the House the Quinn issue with Anglo Irish Bank was being resolved, the Taoiseach was playing golf with Mr. FitzPatrick. Given the comments made by the Taoiseach and on his behalf since the weekend, we have been led to believe he constructed some kind of Chinese wall down the fairway between him and Mr. FitzPatrick, in that they never...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Here was a bank, the shares of which had been in trouble since March and the Taoiseach had two opportunities to raise the matter with it. I acknowledge the Taoiseach's comments about formal meetings, the presence of officials and so on. However, it is incredible that the Taoiseach, a man who sat in the Minister for Finance's office and would have a certain amount of knowledge about the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is what the Taoiseach has led us to believe. Let us be clear. First, did the Taoiseach discuss the bank's business at the dinner or the golf outing? Second, will he put on the record of the House all of his contacts with Anglo Irish Bank between the beginning of 2008 and the time of its nationalisation? I am referring to his meetings, formal, informal, social or whatever, with the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I have never made a personal attack on the Taoiseach in this House and I am not going to start now. What I said, and what I stand over, is that if the Taoiseach's Government knew Anglo Irish Bank was insolvent and he asked the Irish taxpayers to bail it out and to pay the cost we are now paying for it, that was and is economic treason. I stand over that. The Taoiseach responds to me with a...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: None.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

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Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I can ask a question.

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of vacancies that exist on the boards of agencies or other bodies operating under the aegis of his Department; the appointments made to such boards by him since 22 November 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48345/10]

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: In his reply to Deputy Kenny, the Taoiseach mentioned that a general election has not yet been called and that therefore the interregnum period between the calling of a general election and the election of whatever government arises from the general election does not arise yet. However, in reality it does because at the moment we have an unusually long interregnum period. The general...

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I take some comfort from what the Taoiseach has just said, although I am concerned that he is defining the interregnum period as just the period between the calling of the general election and the reconvening of the Dáil. In reality everybody knows the general election is going to take place - when it will take place is another day's work. The phrase being used today is "before the end of...

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Any excuse.

Freedom of Information (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the number of applications made to his Department under the Freedom of Information Act during 2010; the way this compares with each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48346/10]

Freedom of Information (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Information Commissioner called some time ago for a thorough review of the freedom of information legislation. Does the Government accept that recommendation and has any review been carried out of the freedom of information legislation?

Departmental Staff (12 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the reason recruitment to the position of advisory counsel in the Office of the Attorney General is restricted to barristers and the reason, in particular solicitors, are excluded, having regard to the fact that solicitors are now eligible for appointment as Judges of the High Court and Supreme Court; if he plans to review this practice; and if he will make...