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Departmental Groups. (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: How often does this working group meet and is there a regular arrangement in regard to its meetings?

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the arrangements for questions and answers on banking policy. The Taoiseach indicated yesterday that some agreement would be made by the Whips for questions and answers some time tomorrow. The Labour Party is anxious that it should be more of a question and answer format. I understood, from what the Taoiseach said yesterday, that what he had in mind was...

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am glad we are smiling at each other for a change.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I refer to the promise made by the Minister for Finance to introduce legislation to root out crony capitalism in Ireland and ban cross-directorships and so on. When will that legislation be introduced? I draw the attention of the Taoiseach to the fact that in the schedule of sittings which has been published there is provision for a week in early June when there would be no sittings. That...

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Really?

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It would not take half an hour.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There are no takers for that, from what I hear.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The people of this country are in a state of shock this morning and somewhat bewildered by the huge size of the figures and scale of the amount of money that will have to be paid for the bail-out of Anglo Irish Bank. I saw a figure this morning of €200,000 million a year in the budget. This is the sum of all the cutbacks that have taken place in health, education and social welfare. We...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking about Anglo Irish Bank.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Please answer my question.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: My question was specific to that bank.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach asserts that the decision had to be made in respect of Anglo Irish Bank and having regard to the full nature and extent of the guarantee. He leads us to believe that the decision was taken in the national economic interest. Nothing I have heard since September 2008 convinces me that was the case. I believe that the Taoiseach and the Government made that decision in September...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I believe the decision was made to save the skins of a number of individuals, some of whom were connected to Fianna Fáil-----

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and whose property interests and prosperity were bound up with the fortunes of Anglo Irish Bank. I believe that is why the decision was made and I have heard nothing to the contrary since then. That is why I am asking the Taoiseach to publish all the advice he had available to him on that occasion. If my belief is correct, and I have not been convinced to the contrary, that decision...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is reciprocated.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Publish the advice.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Publish the advice.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not a game.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is beyond a game.

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (30 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is in a position to make a statement on the prospects of an amendment to the electoral law in Burma in advance of the forthcoming elections such as would render these elections suitable for international monitoring. [13326/10]