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Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: My question is if the Taoiseach has any concerns that a €6 billion adjustment will damage growth-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and prospects for jobs.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We will have more people taking flights to Australia.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What is the Government's view?

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This proposal relates to the way in which the social welfare Bill will be introduced. The Government intends to move and complete two Bills this week - the social welfare Bill and the financial emergency measures in the public interest (No. 2) Bill-----

Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----neither of which anybody in this House has seen. Yet the Government is proposing that the social welfare Bill will be introduced tomorrow evening. It is proposed that it will be guillotined at 4.45 p.m. on Thursday. The financial emergency measures Bill will be introduced then and that will be guillotined and completed by 1 o'clock on Friday. That is not an acceptable way to deal...

Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In his reply to Deputy Kenny, the Taoiseach stated it is intended that the House will resume after Christmas a week earlier than expected. My recollection is that the date pencilled in for the resumption of the Dáil is 19 January. Will the Taoiseach confirm that the intended date for resumption of the Dáil is 12 January? Last week, I asked the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste about the...

Financial Resolution No. 33: Income Tax and Corporation Tax (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: These resolutions deal with the abolition or phasing out of a batch of reliefs, the abolition of most of which were recommended by the Commission on Taxation. In general, the Labour Party agrees with the removal of many of those reliefs, particularly in the circumstances in which we find ourselves. However, I have an issue with regard to the abolition of two of the reliefs. The first is...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Excise (Vehicle Registration Tax) (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will focus on two aspects of this group of proposals. Like the Fine Gael Party, the Labour Party proposed the abolition of the air travel tax. While I acknowledge that the Government has made a move in that direction by reducing the tax and has applied some conditionality to its application, this is one of the taxes, the disincentive effect of which is as much the fact that it is in place...

Financial Resolutions 2011: Allocation of Time: Motion (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No, I cannot agree to that proposal. We have before us an unusually large number of financial resolutions in connection with this year's budget, a total of 34 financial resolutions. To my recollection, most budgets would normally have perhaps half a dozen financial resolutions which would be dealt with in the period of time to which we refer. I do not have a particular objection to the...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Look what the Taoiseach has done with the credits.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Every Friday.

Written Answers — Retail Sector: Retail Sector (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on amending the law to require major retail companies operating here to publish company accounts to establish the level of profits they are making, particularly in view of reports that one major retailer (details supplied) makes greater profits here than in any other part of its global empire; and if he will...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he will take to prevent the exploitation of domestic workers, particularly migrant workers in such positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45557/10]

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to respond to the Tánaiste's question.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to answer the question.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In the midst of the most serious economic difficulty that has faced the State, described in the letter which the Minister for Finance proposes to send to the European institutions and to the IMF, as, " an economic crisis without parallel in [Ireland's] recent history", we are now being presented with a proposal that will occupy valuable Dáil time when we should be debating the economic...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the Tánaiste's challenge to me at an earlier stage in the proceedings, I have a question for her. Who wrote these letters to the IMF, the EU and the ECB? They read like letters that were written and then presented to the Minister for Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank to be signed at the "X".

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will read out one of the paragraphs of this letter. "At the root of the problem is a domestic banking system which, at its peak, was five times the size of the economy". Five times the size of the economy?

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government told us on the night of the bank guarantee that it was €440 billion.