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Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That was some guarantee. This is an admission that the Government got it wrong from the beginning.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We have been putting up with vague answers from the Government for a long time. One asks a question about when the Dáil will be reconvened and receives an answer to the effect that the Government has not yet decided. One asks when the finance Bill will be introduced and is informed the Government has not yet decided and of what was done last year. That day is over and I will explain why....

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This must be submitted every Friday to the IMF and the EU and report on everything that has been done up to the previous Thursday. The document will contain detail about when legislation is to be presented and so on. In this context we are entitled to hear something other than the traditional vague answers we have received from the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste on these matters. On what date...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It was not always done before Christmas.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It was done last year before Christmas so that Deputy Noel Ahern and his colleagues could go out with their leaflets after Christmas and pretend it was a done deal. That is why it was done.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is being done before Christmas this year because it has been agreed with the EU and the IMF that it should be done before Christmas. Presumably, the date on which the finance Bill will be introduced has already been communicated to the EU and the IMF. They know when the finance Bill will be introduced. We are entitled to know when the finance Bill will be introduced and on what date the...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: You are shouting at Deputy Burton.

Tributes to Head Usher of the Houses of the Oireachtas (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On my own behalf and on behalf of my colleagues in the Labour Party, I pay tribute to both Shay Byrne and Liam Lynch, who are leaving the service of Leinster House this week. I knew Liam Lynch before he joined the staff and even before I entered the House because he is a constituent and I knew of his skills in his previous craft with a knife. These skills are very useful in Leinster House,...

Tributes to Head Usher of the Houses of the Oireachtas (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank Shay for that. In particular, I also want to thank Shay, Liam and all the ushers because all of us have the experience of bringing visitors to the House and the courtesy and professionalism with which visitors are treated is outstanding. I wish Shay and Liam every success for the future.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to oppose No.1 because it contains some extraordinary arrangements for next week's business. The Government is proposing that there be no questions next week, no Leaders' Questions except on Tuesday, and no Order of Business on Wednesday. This is being done to clear the decks for the budget. I understand that it is also the Government's intention to bring in a social welfare Bill...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What other opportunity?

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: A Cheann Chomhairle, you have kindly suggested that there will be another opportunity for me to raise this. The reason I am objecting to the Order of Business is precisely because there will not be another opportunity to raise this important matter.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This is a document of economic surrender by the Government and there is no other opportunity to raise that fact. The arrangements being proposed by the Government for next week do not allow any opportunity to raise it. The Government is submitting a document and letters that are craven to the IMF and to the EU and which will not work.

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a list of prominent economists who have written about this over the last 24 hours. Willem Buiter, the chief economist of Citigroup, stated that "accessing external sources of funds will not mark the end of Ireland's troubles". Professor Eichengreen of Berkeley stated that the "Irish rescue package finalised over the weekend is a disaster". Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate in...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is the whole point. This has never-----

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: You may not want to allow us discuss this, but we will not allow this to happen. This is a sell-out of our country. It is a surrender by the Government of this country's sovereignty, of its right to make its own decisions, determine its own budgets and the Labour Party,-----

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----whoever else will want to be bound by this, will not be bound by this document.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (1 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the decisions he will take in 2011 under the decentralisation programme in view of the current fiscal situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45177/10]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the total amount of interest due to farmers who had to wait for their full farm waste management grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45196/10]

Order of Business (1 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand that three sets of documents need to be completed arising from the EU-IMF agreement. First, a letter and a memorandum dealing with economic and financial policy needs to be communicated to the IMF and the EU institutions. Second, a memorandum of understanding must be concluded in respect of the EU funds. Third, there are operational agreements dealing with matters, including...