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Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise two matters with the Taoiseach. First, when replying to me during Leaders' Questions this morning, the Taoiseach suggested that the vouched fuel allowance announced in the budget was to apply only when the carbon levy was to be applied to solid fuels. I was somewhat surprised to hear this because, to my recollection, that distinction had not been made previously by either...

Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes. In a reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Deputy O'Shea of 19 January 2010, the then Minister for Social and Family Affairs stated: "Before the tax is applied to fuels for home heating, arrangements are being made to assist those most at risk of fuel poverty." In other words, no distinction was drawn between home heating oil and solid fuels. Will the Taoiseach now take the...

Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On the first matter, the Taoiseach was very explicit when he replied to me this morning.

Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am raising a matter-----

Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No, it is not.

Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: A Cheann Comhairle, it is not out of order to seek to have the record of the House corrected and that is what I seek to have done. In his reply to me, the Taoiseach stated explicitly that the vouched fuel allowance was intended to apply only to solid fuels. I have pointed out to the Taoiseach that this is not correct. I have asked him to acknowledge he has made a mistake. I do not want to...

Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I just want the record of the House corrected. The Taoiseach may wish to check the record himself. If he does not want to make the correction now - and he certainly did not in his reply to me earlier - I am quite happy that he corrects it in this House at the next available opportunity. I want the record of the House corrected. If I ask a question of the Taoiseach and he responds with...

Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Sure. That is no problem.

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Eamon Gilmore: No problem at all.

Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Any time, I would love to.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We are coming to the time of year when the weather gets colder and families must spend more money heating their homes. The price of home heating oil is now 26% higher than it was this time last year. One of the factors which has contributed to the increase in the price of home heating oil is the carbon levy introduced by the Government in the last budget. When the Minister for Finance...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That answer from the Taoiseach is a dodge. It shows no appreciation of the kind of difficulties people have in meeting their home-heating costs. This idea that the vouched fuel allowance was attached only to the introduction of the carbon levy on solid fuels is a completely new excuse by the Government for not proceeding with its introduction. I will offer the Taoiseach a way that it can...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The cost of this re-branding for Bord Gáis alone will be €40 million. I have never heard anything as daft at a time of economic crisis.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Not only am I offering a question, I am offering a solution to the Taoiseach as to how this can be addressed.

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government will spend €40 million on the ESB and Bord Gáis each for putting up new nameplates, letterheads and for new advertising at a time when the country is short of money. Those moneys would be better spent providing some assistance to those families who cannot meet their fuel bills. Those families are being switched off by the two suppliers in question which then charge them...

Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is daft.

Constitutional Amendments (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referenda the Government plans to hold during the remainder of the life of the 30th Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32307/10]

Constitutional Amendments (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation to date of the reports of the Committee on the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32308/10]

Constitutional Amendments (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach referred to the various matters which are in the programme for Government which would require referendums at some stage. They include the recommendations on extending the franchise for presidential elections to Irish people living abroad; recommendations for changes to the electoral system; a new electoral system for Seanad Éireann; a new basis for European elections; a...

Constitutional Amendments (13 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On those matters, there are no proposals for a referendum. It is safe to assume that there will not be referendums on any of those issues in the lifetime of the Government. On the referendum on children's rights, the report of the all-party committee was published on 16 February and recommended that there should be a constitutional amendment on the rights of the child. The expectation was...