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Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand the Committee on Procedure and Privileges made a decision last night that, in future, where Ministers introduce amendments to their Bill - which in this case amounted to two and a half times the size of the Bill itself - they should present an additional explanatory memorandum.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Bill being presented and being complained about is to be rushed through in three and a half hours without the explanatory memoranda sought by Deputy Fleming or the Committee on Procedure and Privileges. This is a planning Bill - if a planning applicant came in at the last minute with additional information that was two and a half times the size of the original planning application, we...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I want the Tánaiste to tell us if the Government intends to withdraw the item today so it can be processed further, in line with the decision made by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges that proper explanatory memoranda be presented with the Bill.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will oppose this item. I thank the Tánaiste for apologising to the House on behalf of the Government for what has happened and I acknowledge her remarks that there was a 12 hour debate on Second Stage but these amendments were submitted by the Minister after the Second Stage debate had concluded. We are talking about planning legislation, which is complex at the best of times. The...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Tánaiste for agreeing to have a discussion on the cystic fibrosis unit in St. Vincent's hospital next week. She will recall that when we had a discussion on this yesterday the Labour Party Whip requested that there would be such a discussion. I understand it was discussed by the Whips and I am glad that time is being provided for it. I am sure the Tánaiste will have seen the...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is because a Bill is promised, the legal costs Bill.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I know it is late in the session but it is perfectly in order. The legal costs Bill is promised to provide for the regulation and assessment of legal costs and publication is expected in 2011. Given that an OECD report on legal costs which recommended reform of the legal profession was published in 2001 and, subsequently, a Competition Authority report was published on the same area, I ask...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----in order that the kind of practice that the Taxing Master described as grossly excessive can be brought to an end.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Today we learned that Ireland has come first in something. We have come first in the league table for having the worst bank in the world. We are told today that Anglo Irish Bank is the biggest lose-maker of any bank in the world, and that is on top of the fact that the Irish bank bailout is the most expensive bailout anywhere in the world. Yet the Government is proposing to guillotine the...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----we have a proposal from the Government that the Bill dealing with the regulation of banks be guillotined at 1 p.m. without the amendments to it being dealt with.

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Three and a half hours have been allocated for Report and Final Stages of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009. There are 127 amendments to be dealt with, one of which, amendment No. 120, is ten pages long. This matter was raised by the Chairman of the Select Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Seán Fleming, with the Committee on Procedure and...

Order of Business. (1 Jul 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Many of these amendments, Deputy Fleming stated in his letter, have far-reaching consequences, yet their context, purpose and rationale were not made clear to Members and the ensuing debate was "seriously compromised".

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the hardship being encountered by persons queuing to make applications for re-entry visas at the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service office in Dublin; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons are being forced to queue for hours and that some queue for a full day...

Written Answers — Garda Complaints Procedures: Garda Complaints Procedures (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his response to the annual report of the Garda Ombudsman Commission for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28355/10]

Saville Inquiry Report: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On behalf of the Labour Party, I have co-sponsored the motion before us with the other party leaders and join them, and all Members of the Dáil, in support of the motion. It is right and proper that we remember all those who were killed on Bloody Sunday in Derry on Sunday, 30 January 1972, along with all those who were injured and all those who have suffered over many years as a result of...

Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a report in the Irish Independent today that some relief may be on the way for homeowners who are struggling to meet repayments on their mortgages. The Labour Party has been seeking this for more than two years and we will be delighted it the report is true. It appears to be based on anticipation of a report from the group set up by the Government to look at the difficulties...

Departmental Expenditure (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I did not table a question on this subject but I ask whether the terms of the public service recruitment embargo apply to these posts. If there will be another former Taoiseach in the near future, will he be prevented from recruiting under the embargo?

Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the constitutional referenda he plans to hold during the remainder of the current Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26375/10]

Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach makes it sound as if the Government was not a party to the committee that produced the wording for the referendum. It was represented on the committee. The Taoiseach referred to a number of matters on which homework needs to be done. I am surprised, as he appears to acknowledge, that no homework was done on the implications of the referendum - financial and resource...

Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Let me ask the question. The question on the Order Paper asks what referenda will be held in the lifetime of this Dáil. Will this referendum be held in the lifetime of this Dáil and if it will be, will it be held in 2010?