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Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance have told us-----

Order of Business. (17 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----that dealing with the banks would not cost the taxpayer any money. We spent €22 billion and this man stated that the lion's share will never be seen again. It seems there is no end to the billions the Government will commit when it comes to the banks and the better off in our society but it will literally not give the poorest the time of day because it is guillotining the debate on...

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he is taking to combat the continuing high level of unemployment as indicated by the live register figures in respect of May and ongoing announcements of job losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24341/10]

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress made regarding the commitment given in the Renewed Programme for Government to establish community and development agencies as a one stop shop for advice on grant supports, business opportunities, training and development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24340/10]

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I join Deputies Power and Finneran in acknowledging the huge work done by the former Chief of Staff, Dermot Earley, for the Defence Forces and I wish him and his family well as he battles with a serious illness. Everyone who met and knew Dermot Earley will acknowledge his warm personality. We all send him our good wishes and I do so on behalf of the Labour Party. There were a few occasions...

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What is the Government's proposal for this year's summer recess? How long is it intended that this session will continue? The Chief Whip has circulated information on Bills the Government hopes to take in the House before we rise for the summer. I notice the list does not include legislation in respect of management companies, which is something the Labour Party has sought urgently....

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It will not be October, then?

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The programme for Government and the revised programme for Government contain a number of interesting ideas. On 1 May the Government introduced the carbon levy on home heating oil. There was, however, a commitment in the programme for Government that relief would be provided to families and households on low incomes in conjunction with the levy. I ask the Taoiseach when this relief will be...

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that line Ministers will be able to provide detailed information on these matters but I expected that they would have come to the Taoiseach's attention, at least in a general way, if they had been progressed. This would have enabled him to give an indication of the position in respect of them. I am disappointed with the Taoiseach's reply on fuel poverty. He stated that...

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No, I am not. It is in the programme for Government.

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that but it is in the programme for Government. I am asking the Taoiseach about it because it is a general provision which is not the responsibility of any individual Department and I would like him to tell us what has happened to it. With regard to the idea by the Minister for Health and Children, which she came up with as long ago as 2005, to develop co-located private...

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask the Taoiseach the current position on the proposal for co-location. I am aware the revised programme for Government makes reference to it but has it been dropped?

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand that TELAC pertains to top-level appointments of permanent staff, such as chief executives. Can I take it from what the Taoiseach is saying that it is now intended to give TELAC a role in the identification of personnel who might be appointed as members of State boards or non-executive directors of State companies?

Freedom of Information (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the case he won recently in the High Court, where the Information Commissioner and Ombudsman had ordered the release of a document containing information on a 2003 Cabinet discussion on greenhouse gas emissions. The Information Commissioner ordered the document released and the Taoiseach appealed that decision by the Information Commissioner to the High...

Order of Business. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I support Deputy Kenny's proposal which, I believe, would be a good way of this House responding to the publication of the Saville report. I, too, welcome the publication of that report, in particular the clear statements made therein concerning the innocence of those who were shot in Derry on Bloody Sunday, the admission and acknowledgement that the actions of the British Army on that day...

Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We spent all day yesterday on a motion proposed by the Taoiseach that he should keep his job and that his Ministers should keep theirs. This morning I want to ask him about the concerns of people who have already lost their jobs and people who are concerned about losing their jobs. Earlier this month, the live register figures were published and they tell us that for the 12th successive...

Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is hopelessly depressing for people who are out of work. Effectively what the Taoiseach stated is that when everything else is fixed people might get back into work. The Government keeps telling us that we have turned the corner. From the Taoiseach's reply, it seems that as far as people who are out of work are concerned the only turning the Government has done is turning its back on...

Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The document Just the Job contained a set of proposals to reactivate the labour market. We have produced a number of sectoral proposals. The Taoiseach stated the Government has more people in training now than before. It has taken up a couple of the ideas we put forward but the numbers of places in those training measures have been increased by only a very small amount, a couple of...

Leaders' Questions. (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----is the problem of people who are out of work. The figures are creeping up to half the people out of work being out of work on a long-term basis. We do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past when people were out of work for a long period of time and found it harder to get back into the workforce and the labour market. In particular, I want to ask the Taoiseach what he will do...

Programmes for Government (16 Jun 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the progress made to date regarding the implementation of the Renewed Programme for Government, with particular regard to those areas for which he has responsibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23282/10]