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Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There are three matters about which I wish to ask the Taoiseach. The Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Áine Brady, indicated this morning that statutory regulations pertaining to home care services were being prepared in her Department. Is this being done through primary legislation or regulations, and when will it come before the House? The Green Party...

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In this morning's newspaper the Minister was quoted-----

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----as saying that the general election would take place in the middle of March. Can the Taoiseach throw any light on this statement?

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The resignations of the Green Party Ministers.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Does it?

Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What about the Minister, Deputy Hanafin?

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: During Taoiseach's questions earlier this afternoon, I asked the Taoiseach about last night's episode of "Prime Time Investigates", which showed the cruel, abusive and inhuman treatment of vulnerable elderly people and the lack of regulation of this area. These problems have resulted from the Government's determination to privatise home care services. I intend to return to the subject on...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The position, as I understand it and as the Minister for Finance has been communicating it, is that he has told Allied Irish Banks that if it proceeds to pay these bonuses, the bank will not benefit from the taxpayers' money the State intends to put into the bank. That is a position we would all support, but my question is whether it will work. The Minister has already acknowledged that it...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It was 2009 when it took place.

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the publication of the recent OECD report on Better Regulation in Ireland [45949/10]

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the implementation of the 2001 OECD Report on Regulatory Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45950/10]

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: These questions relate to the OECD report on better regulation. Last night we saw on our television screens an example of no regulation. The "Prime Time Investigates" programme showed horrific examples of the way in which home care companies are recruiting workers with no training, no Garda vetting and no checking of references. It appears there is little or no inspection of what is taking...

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is about regulation.

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The problem is the huge gap between the theory and the practice. We have an official report from the OECD dealing with regulation, and then we have what is happening on the ground at a practical level. The reason we have the problem described so clearly last night on "Prime Time Investigates" is that this Government has made it more difficult for families to care for older people. There...

Regulatory Reform (14 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----the carer's allowance. I also heard what the Minister of State had to say this morning. She spoke about guidelines being introduced, but she was not able to say when the statutory regulation will be brought in. I understand that some work is being done in preparing legislation. Can the Taoiseach tell us when there will be statutory regulation of home care services?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On the proposal to the deal with the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill, the measure to cut the minimum wage is at the end of the legislation. As Deputy Penrose pointed out yesterday, the arrangements the Government proposes for the taking of the Bill will mean, in practice, that it is unlikely the Dáil will have an opportunity to specifically address the cut in the...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am pointing out the reason we need more time to debate the Bill. These are the types of issues the House needs to be debate but we will not have an opportunity to do so. The Minister for Finance stated that those on the new national minimum wage will not be brought into the tax net. On page C30 of the budgetary documentation, we are informed that the universal social charge, which will...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: People on the minimum wage will be brought into the tax net. The effect of what the Government is doing is to reduce by €40 per week the earnings of a person working 40 hours per week and to take from these earnings €8.42 on the universal social charge. This will bring the national minimum wage for someone working 40 hours per week to below €300 per week, specifically to €297.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The measures mean that someone working 40 hours per week on the new national minimum wage will receive less than the average bonus being paid to AIB executives, which is being allowed by the Government.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The arrangements before us have been made because the Government wants to kill debate on a measure that will take almost €50 per week from people on the national minimum wage.