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Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I lost count at No. 10 of the number of times the Ceann Comhairle interrupted her-----

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----as she asked those questions. Can the Ceann Comhairle indicate how she was out of order? She asked two questions that were perfectly in order.

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: But she was in order.

Social Partnership (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There are a number of issues in these questions which were tabled prior to the conclusion of the discussions with the public service trade unions. The first issue is the agreement negotiated between the Government and the public service trade unions and which is now the subject of a ballot. I note that the president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has appealed to politicians in all...

Social Partnership (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the discussions, which the Taoiseach expects to take place in the autumn between trade unions and private sector employer organisations, deal with the issue of pay in the private sector? I ask the Taoiseach to respond to the question I asked on the national minimum wage, which has been with the Labour Court for some time. When does he expect the Labour Court to issue its views and...

Social Partnership (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Government made any views of its own known to the Labour Court in respect of the minimum wage?

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Following on from Deputy Kenny's question, the Minister of State told the House last night where he is in terms of his preparation for the referendum. From his comments, I understood there to be no significant issue in respect of the wording to be used in the referendum. He seemed to accept that the wording agreed by the all-party committee was substantially the wording that should appear...

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: For reasons of clarity, the Taoiseach drew attention to the comments last night of the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, to the effect the committee sat for two years and three months.

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am confining myself to-----

Order of Business. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not debating it. I am asking a question about promised legislation, which I am entitled to do. It is true that the committee took two years and three months, but the Government was a party to the committee. The Taoiseach makes it sound as if the Government was somehow separate. The heavy lifting was agreeing the wording, and that is done. Last night, the Minister of State...

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Last Thursday the Taoiseach made a long speech in which he admitted for the first time that Ireland's economic crisis was due not just to the international recession but to failures of his Fianna Fáil Government. When one wades through the grammatical constructs he used to distance himself from all of that, he appears to be saying that somebody somewhere should have done something earlier...

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Taoiseach did not hear all of that, his predecessor, Deputy Bertie Ahern, did because he described it as "people sitting on the sidelines cribbing and moaning". He referred to a lost opportunity and said he did not know why the people engaged in that do not commit suicide. Does the Taoiseach accept that the problem was not that he did not get the advice but that he did not act on it?

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is bad enough that the Taoiseach, both in his capacity as Taoiseach and in his former capacity as Minister for Finance, and his Fianna Fáil Government have ruined the Irish economy, but it is adding insult to injury for him to claim he had nothing to do with it, it was all somebody else's fault, he was not advised correctly, somebody else made certain proposals and so on. The fact of the...

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and he must take responsibility for what has happened. It is doing a grave injustice to all those people who have suffered severely as a result of what he has done to offer the type of self-justification in which he engaged last Thursday. The record will show that over the years, the Labour Party in particular identified various actions that should have been taken but were not.

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The proposal to abolish stamp duty came from the Government side of the House, from the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Michael McDowell.

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a serious rewriting of history to suggest it came from elsewhere. The truth of the matter is that the Taoiseach got warnings about what was happening in the property market and he got warnings about the consequences of light regulation. As far back as 2005 The New York Times was describing the Irish financial sector as the Wild West of the financial world and pointing out that the...

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The bottom line is that the Taoiseach did not listen to the warnings, did not do enough and did not take action. Last Thursday he described what has happened as a "stunning failure of corporate governance". It was a stunning failure - a stunning failure of government and by the Taoiseach in particular because it was he, as Minister for Finance, who was in charge during all of that period.

Social Partnership (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach when he last met the social partners; when he next expects to meet the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13689/10]

Social Partnership (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the progress made to date on the talks currently underway with the public service unions; if any deadline has been set for the conclusion of these talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13690/10]

Oireachtas Reform (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 31: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach his proposals for Dáil reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6733/10]