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Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will list the Cabinet sub-committees on which he serves or is represented. [12490/10]

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Which of the committees has dealt with the issue of the carbon levy? In particular, has that committee addressed the promise the Government made that it would introduce a special fuel allowance to assist pensioners and the 300,000-plus families on low incomes who were promised at the time of the budget that an allowance would be introduced before the carbon levy was introduced? The carbon...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Which of these committees has been dealing with the issue of the carbon levy and which of these committees has failed in its responsibility to bring forward the promised fuel allowance? I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the ghost housing estates all over the country, half-finished housing estates and empty houses that cannot be sold. NAMA is talking about demolishing some of these estates...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----might address the problem of the numbers of people who are on local authority waiting lists, the provision of housing for returning emigrants and the need for sheltered accommodation for elderly people? Has the health committee recently considered the Government's policy on co-location? The Taoiseach will recall this was the Minister for Health and Children's plan which she announced...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the carbon levy and the fuel allowance, the statement yesterday by the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, does not address the issue; all it does is state that the Government has welched on the promise it made to these 300,000 low-income households-----

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----that there would be a fuel allowance, a vouched fuel system introduced before the carbon levy. This was confirmed by the then Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Mary Hanafin, last February. The Government has now welched on that promise to the poorest households in the country. It is a disgrace. The Government is telling them they will have to wait.

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: A total of 300,000 households will have to wait until next October. The Government is telling people with empty oil tanks who, if last year is anything to go by, will have to go through a number of cold months between now and October, that they will not be able to buy heating oil until next October when this promise is delivered. That is scandalous. The Taoiseach has talked in general terms...

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No, it is about the health committee. One of these committees is the Cabinet committee on health. The Taoiseach has acknowledged that it has been considering the capital budget and the health capital programme, and this is part of it.

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Are the co-located hospitals going ahead or are they over? Is co-location finished?

Cabinet Committees. (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What about the fuel allowance? What will happen to the pensioners who will be left in the cold until October? Is the Taoiseach going to leave them in the cold?

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Some clarity from the Taoiseach about the proposed election for a directly elected mayor of Dublin would help.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the election take place this year or not? If it is going to take place this year, when will the legislation for it be brought before the House? The second issue I wish to raise is the allowance promised to the 300,000 families who will be affected by the introduction of the carbon levy on home heating oil from next Saturday. It is not acceptable that the poorest households can be...

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The carbon levy will be introduced on Saturday while the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, says wait until October.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government's new position for pensioners and low-income households is that they can wait until October. That is not good enough. There was a promise of an allowance before the carbon levy was introduced which was confirmed in the House during the budget. The Minister's excuse of a statement yesterday is an absolute insult to those people.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The existing scheme, as the Taoiseach well knows, runs out-----

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, I know but we are talking about poor people. Every time an issue is raised concerning poor people and low-income households, suddenly it is dismissed as out of order. This levy will be introduced on Saturday.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government promised in the budget that an allowance would be introduced to cover the carbon levy for low-income households. It has not brought it in.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This is the only opportunity I have to raise this matter. The levy will be introduced on Saturday. The Ceann Comhairle told my colleague, Deputy Shortall, she could down a parliamentary question on the matter. If she does, it will not be due for answer until next week by which time the carbon levy will be in.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Raising this on the Order of Business is the only way. The Government promised it would bring in an allowance in advance of the carbon levy. It has welshed on that promise. The Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, yesterday told all those pensioners and low-income households dependent on oil for home heating that they can wait until October for the allowance. That is not good enough. I want a more...

Order of Business (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Another broken Fianna Fáil promise.