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Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide an update on the outcome of the interdepartmental committee meetings on Irish Aid; the position of his Department in such meetings in relation to trade issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29635/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 448: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in an appeal for mortgage interest relief in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29605/10]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 629: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider allocating funding for the establishment of an early start unit for Travellers in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29336/10]

Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party is opposed to the use of the guillotine on this Bill. This is an example of the serial application of the guillotine by Government in the last couple of weeks before the summer recess. It is not a good way to make law. As Deputy Kenny said, it does not give adequate time to deal with the amendments that have been tabled for this Bill. We are opposed to the use of the...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise two matters. First, the motion passed in the Dáil on 20 January 2010 concerning an inquiry into banking provided that an independent statutory commission of investigation would be established by 30 June 2010. I understand the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service has been considering the Government's proposals regarding such a commission. When will these...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is in Dún Laoghaire on Friday.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We can pair.

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I too have been reading the report from the Government dealing with the problems mortgage holders are having in repaying their loans. The report includes 41 recommendations. There will be a lot of letters written back and forth between lenders and borrowers but the only firm recommendation I can see is that the one-year moratorium on legal action by lenders cannot be extended. That stands...

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Or, is it the case that the developers were messing in the period between the time NAMA was first announced and when the first loan was transferred to NAMA? Was there a situation whereby after NAMA was announced a certain amount of financial hanky panky took place and people decided that if the taxpayer were to end up taking on this burden, then perhaps a given loan did not have to be repaid...

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The draft plan, as the Taoiseach calls it, is beginning to read more and more like a daft plan. The Taoiseach's Minister for Finance stated 40% of loans were performing in the draft or daft plan that was presented to us for NAMA. The Taoiseach is now acknowledging that it is 25%. Originally, we were told the discount applied would be 30%. Of course, it turned out that when NAMA got to...

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: He was way off on the discounts.

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was way off in respect of where NAMA will end up and whether it will make a profit. The Taoiseach is now suggesting two scenarios in which it might make a profit or a loss.

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It seems the reality is that the Taoiseach does not know from one month to the next where he is going with this and where it will end up, other than that the taxpayer of this country will, for decades to come, have to shoulder the burden of the mess he has created and allowed to continue.

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his help. The Taoiseach stated that he expects NAMA will still make a profit. Will he indicate his estimate of the profit NAMA will make?

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We would not get to know the information at all otherwise.

Leaders' Questions. (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No.

Regulatory Reform (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Is it intended that the high level group will make any specific recommendations about reducing the amount of red tape that business has to deal with and about simplifying the regulatory regime that now applies to many areas of life? With regard to his Department's unit dealing with better regulation, my understanding is that this was conducting some kind of review of all of the regulatory...

Regulatory Reform (6 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It has been ongoing for a long time. The former Minister with responsibility for enterprise, the Minister, Deputy Mary Harney, launched a programme back in 2000 which she said would alleviate the significant burden of administrative requirements on small businesses, yet we still hear of cases where some of the requirements on business are absolutely ludicrous. For example, ISME recently...

Written Answers — Active Citizenship: Active Citizenship (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on the recent work of the task force on active citizenship. [6734/10]

Written Answers — Educational Projects: Educational Projects (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider allocating funding for the establishment of a much needed early start unit for Travellers at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29174/10]