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Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding prospective realignments within the domestic banking sector; the position regarding the future of building societies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17211/10]

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (28 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any recent interest from foreign investors in taking strategic or controlling stakes in any of the credit institutions covered by the banking guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17210/10]

Decentralisation Programme. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department, broken down by grade, who have applied for relocation under the decentralisation programme; the number of such persons who have been relocated; the number that he expects will be relocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11247/10]

Decentralisation Programme. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On the last occasion we had this round of questions I asked the Taoiseach if he could give any breakdown for the total number of people who have been decentralised to date, compared to those who had moved from Dublin to a location outside it, and those who had moved from one location outside Dublin to another. On that occasion the Taoiseach undertook to make some inquiries. Is he in a...

Decentralisation Programme. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking a parliamentary question of the Taoiseach.

Decentralisation Programme. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: He is the Head of Government. How much vacant property in the country is awaiting decanted staff and decentralised offices? There is no sign of them and we are awaiting the review in 2011. I would like a general, ball park figure, not the exact number of square metres.

Decentralisation Programme. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for providing the House with information on the total cost of decentralisation. I was trying to follow the figures as he outlined them. If I am correct, a ballpark figure for total cost to date is somewhere between €700 million and €750 million but perhaps I missed something. The supplementary I asked was whether the Taoiseach could give a figure for total costs...

Decentralisation Programme. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has just provided it.

Decentralisation Programme. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am sorry I was not as quick with my sums as you would have liked, a Cheann Comhairle. I was asking the Taoiseach to help by providing the total figure if he has it. If I understand correctly, the Taoiseach informed us that a total number of approximately 4,000 staff have been decentralised to date. How many of them have moved from Dublin to a non-Dublin location and how many moved from...

Departmental Programmes. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the work to date being carried out by his Department under the organisational review programme. [11248/10]

Departmental Programmes. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The parliamentary affairs division.

Departmental Programmes. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach appeared to suggest in his earlier reply that the Government will not be publishing these reports until after the follow-up action plans are drawn up by the respective Departments and considered by the Government. Given that the report on the Department of Health and Children, which is pretty damning, was already published in The Irish Times, would he agree to simply publish...

Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I also want to raise a pension-related issue, namely, the plight of pensioners and low income households in this country who are facing a double whammy this weekend. People will lose their fuel allowance as the winter scheme will come to an end at the end of April. However, the cost of heating oil will increase as a result of the introduction of the carbon levy. When the Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That does not address the issue at all. The winter fuel allowance which normally operates from October to April will expire; it is a standard fuel allowance which is available throughout the winter. Many families and, in particular, elderly people, who are more prone to the cold than others, will know that the end of April is not the appropriate time to end the scheme. If we have the kind...

Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Community welfare officers are snowed under. They are overwhelmed.

Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has not even given this a second thought just because they are poor families and poor households.

Order of Business (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Central Bank and the Financial Regulator today published a consultation paper on corporate governance in which they propose a number of reforms in the ways in which companies are governed through boards of directors and chief executive officers, chairmen and so on. I recall that the Minister for Finance promised on St. Patrick's Day 2009 in an interview he gave to the Financial Times...

Order of Business (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When does the Taoiseach anticipate the Central Bank (No. 2) Bill will be published?

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share time with Deputies Penrose and Morgan.

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion. (27 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: "That Dáil Éireann: noting that: — the Irish economy is experiencing one of the worst recessions of any developed country; — unemployment, which stood at less than 5% in 2008, is forecast to reach nearly 14% by the end of 2010, with the live register currently at more than 435,000; — some 100,000 people are expected to leave Ireland in a two year period; — there remains a...