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Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When did the Government make the decision?

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is right.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: However, it is the Tánaiste's responsibility.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank you for calling me a Cheann Comhairle. I had indicated to you that there were two other matters I wished to raise with the Tánaiste, both of which relate to promised legislation.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The first is the promised legislation to have a directly elected mayor of Dublin. I have been asking for some time about when the Bill will be published.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand the Government has now approved the heads of that Bill. I did ask previously if the Government would circulate the heads of the Bill. I ask the Tánaiste again if that will be done. At the request of my parliamentary party I wrote to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government three weeks ago today requesting a meeting with him to discuss his plans for the...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This type of activity is going on at a time when jobs are being lost and farm incomes are under pressure. The supermarkets want €500,000 upfront from Irish suppliers. It is a form of extortion that should be dealt with very forcefully by the Tánaiste. I would like to hear what she is doing about it and when the long-promised Bill on consumer protection will be brought forward.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste is wasting her time.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I think the Tánaiste inadvertently referred to element 6 when she meant hangar 6 in a response to-----

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes. I was going to remind the Tánaiste that it was one of the places where she lost jobs in the course of the past year. They were also lost in Waterford and Limerick. I want to ask the Tánaiste directly whether she will now lose the 300 potential jobs for Dublin Airport? At this stage we have heard so much about hangar this and hangar that but what people want to know, particularly...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Before the Ceann Comhairle puts the question on the first proposition, I raise the fact that it contains, in effect, five proposals. I know the Ceann Comhairle will apply the rule that there should be only one contribution from each party in respect of that question. The problem is that because there are five elements to the proposition, it is possible that different members of political...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Ceann Comhairle will bear with me, I did not intend for this to become acrimonious. There are a number of propositions, and I know Deputy Burton, on behalf of the Labour Party, will be opposing specifically the proposals for the financial resolutions. There is a separate proposal dealing with the allocation of time in dealing with the Finance Bill. The budget debate was truncated...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: She is in order.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order, Deputy Burton rose to oppose No.1 on the Order of Business. She is entitled to that and she is entitled-----

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. Almost from the moment that she began making her contribution, you started to interrupt. She is entitled to oppose No. 1. She is entitled, on behalf of the Labour Party, to state the reasons for opposing No. 1. She had not completed making her case for opposing it. With respect, I ask you to allow her to continue to explain her second reason for opposing...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: She is being brief.

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to share time with Deputy Rabbitte.

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I join in the words of congratulation to Deputy Rabbitte on bringing this reforming measure before the Dáil. We hear much commentary these days about the need to reform politics and, in particular, the need for the Dáil to reform its own practices and procedures and the way we do business. Deputy Rabbitte's Bill is an important reforming measure which would give the House the power of...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share my time with Deputy Joan Burton.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party will support the motion of no confidence in the Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea. We will oppose the motion that has been proposed by the Taoiseach. The Labour Party has no confidence in the Government as a collective entity or in the Ministers in their individual capacities. This is the Fianna Fáil Government that has brought this country to the brink of economic ruin.