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Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 158: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a request for financial assistance from an organisation (details supplied) to help fund participation by the Artane Boys Band in events to commemorate World War I at the Island of Ireland Peace Park, Belgium, later this year; if his Department is in a position to assist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32022/10]

Written Answers — Capital Expenditure Programmes: Capital Expenditure Programmes (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 532: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the launch of the Government's infrastructure investment priorities for 2010-2016 on 26 July 2010. [32303/10]

Issue of Writs: Dublin South, Waterford and Donegal South-West By-elections (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party supports the three motions proposed by Fine Gael to move the writs for the vacancies in the constituencies of Dublin South, Donegal South West and Waterford. It is now more than seven months since George Lee resigned as a Member of this House. Following the death of Séamus Brennan in July 2008, the seat was left unfilled for 11 months. As a result the people of Dublin...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party does not agree to the arrangement for the taking of No. 16. This is the proposal the Government is bringing to the House to extend the blanket guarantee that was introduced two years ago. Whatever justification there might have been two years ago — that the Government was up all night and had to bring the matter before the House in a rush and put the gun to our heads to...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I noted the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Kenny's question on the budget date. Deputy Kenny asked if the Taoiseach would confirm that the budget date is still 7 December. The Taoiseach, in his reply, said something to the effect that the budget date that has been mentioned is 7 December. Will the Taoiseach confirm that the date of the budget is 7 December, or does the Government have any...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In an earlier reply the Taoiseach indicated the Government will allow time tomorrow for a debate on the final figure for Anglo Irish Bank when it is published by the Financial Regulator. In light of this undertaking, what time does the Taoiseach expect the information to be announced?

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach must be expecting it early in the day if he is in a position to tell us we can have a debate on it in the House tomorrow.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach knows more about this report than he pretended earlier on.

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Kenny has quite rightly described the decision to give the blanket guarantee to the banks two years ago today as the worst decision that was ever made. It was, of course, a decision to write a blank cheque for the banks and later today the Government will come into the House and ask us to extend that guarantee and, in effect, write another blank cheque. The problem is that we do not...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is extraordinary that the Taoiseach tells us that he does not know the figure that will be announced tomorrow and that it has not been finalised yet. Is that the way the financial affairs of the country are being run? Is the Taoiseach seriously telling us that the Government has made a decision to come in here and ask for another extension on the guarantee without knowing where we are in...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: One of the problems we have as a country is that this incremental additional cost for Anglo Irish Bank, the drip-feed of information and the message that the Government does not know. Is the message going out to the markets that the head of the Government does not know the bottom line for Anglo Irish Bank and does not yet know a figure that will be announced tomorrow? In that situation he...

Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ——of borrowing for the country, and the Taoiseach is adding to it by communicating the message that he does not know. That is not credible.

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal held to date in 2010 and when the next meeting is due. [32301/10]

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committees in which he or his Department participates [32305/10]

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change last met; when the next meeting is due. [32306/10]

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Having neglected the jobs issue since even before the start of the recession, I was interested to see that during the month, two and half years into his term of office, the Taoiseach met the heads of the State agencies responsible for job creation. In a matter of weeks, and just in time for the start of the Dáil session, a jobs document was launched. I desperately want to believe that...

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking the Taoiseach about the 300,000 jobs, that we heard about this week and that we all want to believe will be created. Unfortunately, there are not many who believe it will happen. That is the difficulty. It will not happen unless there are active policies used to pursue it and I am suggesting to the Taoiseach that he might take up the proposals that the Labour Party has advanced...

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: All of them, accurately.

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have been raising the issue of employment and the loss of jobs since long before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and long before the banking crisis and the official start of the recession in this country. The reality is that since Deputy Cowen became Taoiseach the country has lost on average 320 jobs a day. This is the 16th month that the live register figures are over 400,000. One in...

Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal (29 Sep 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am putting it to the Taoiseach again because this is about practical proposals to get people back to work. One problem has been that the Government, which should have been on top of the unemployment problem at a much earlier stage, is now coming to it late in the day. I found it astonishing that the Taoiseach only met the heads of the agencies a couple of weeks ago.