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Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share my time with Deputy Brendan Howlin.

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The arrogance of Fianna Fáil knows no bounds. It is an arrogance which comes from being in Government for too long - in Government for the past 14 years and for 22 out of the past 24 years. It is an arrogance which is expressed most eloquently by the Taoiseach himself and we got a fine example of it earlier this morning. That arrogance says to us that it does not matter what Fianna Fáil...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has told us at the same time that there is no surrender nor loss of sovereignty in the deal and that it complies with our Constitution. That is an arrogance that has now fired the first shots of its general election campaign and which demonstrates that Fianna Fáil wants to fight it on its distorted version of what Opposition parties are saying. I advise the Taoiseach that he...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yesterday's budget was the most severe we have ever seen, but it did not sound like it, because in his budget speech, the Minister managed to avoid announcing most of the bad news by occasionally referring to the details in the accompanying budget documentation - a victory for tone over content. It is, therefore, a budget that will take some time to sink in. The Taoiseach gives the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In the budget for 2010, the Minister for Finance announced a fairly modest measure whereby tax exiles would pay a levy to the Irish State. This was subject to a number of fairly generous conditions, and the tax exiles would have an income in excess of €1 million per year and property worth more than €5 million. To date, not a single cent has been collected from that levy. In reply to...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It was a very interesting reply as it is quite clear the Government and the Taoiseach has not given a second thought to the issue of tax exiles since this time last year, when that budget was introduced. This is a Government presiding over a two-tier society, treating one group of people earning more than €1 million per year and who pay no tax to this State with one set of laws and asking...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: At the same time, tax exiles who do not pay income tax to the State have not yet paid a single cent of the amount that was announced last year. The Taoiseach is presiding over two laws, one for tax exiles and another for people dependent on social welfare payments.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What about income tax?

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 731 of 19 January 2010, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the person (details supplied) has still not received a decision on their appeal which was lodged on 16 October 2009, 14 months ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46541/10]

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The version of the Minister, Deputy Gormley, of how the decision was taken, which is now contradicted by the Taoiseach, demonstrates the dysfunctional way in which the Government made the decision on the blanket bank guarantee. It is probably no surprise, therefore, given the uncertainty about how the decision was made that the wrong decision was made. There is now no doubt but that the...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am coming to my question. It will halt growth and put jobs at risk. Does the Taoiseach have any concerns at all that removing €6 billion poses a danger to the prospects for this country's economy recovery and growth?

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am the good guy.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Taoiseach and the Government paid as much attention to what the Labour Party had to say over the past three years as it appears to be doing now, we would not be in the hole and the mess that we are in now.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If it had paid attention to what we had to say about employment at a much earlier stage of this crisis, the Government would not be in a position where the numbers out of work have risen from 154,000 at the time of the last election to 425,000 now. As for the 50,000 that the Government thinks have disappeared, they have disappeared to Australia, America and anywhere but here in order to get...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The State would not be tied to a declining banking system.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There is an attempt to say that if we did not have the banking crisis-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----there would be a manageable position. It would be a much more manageable problem with regard to the public finances.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: As the Taoiseach knows well, the €85 billion deal that was concluded - a bad deal - with the EU and IMF-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----is tied hand and foot to the banks. That has us in this position.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The question I asked the Taoiseach, which he avoided completely, relates to this. I am concerned, along with many independent commentators, that a €6 billion adjustment in the budget to be announced later this afternoon will damage the prospects for growth, recovery and jobs in the Irish economy. My question did not require the Taoiseach to send back Labour Party policies-----