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Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a prospect to be welcomed, bring it on.

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is great news.

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I also asked about the establishment of the electoral commission.

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Do I take it from what the Taoiseach has said that there will not be any constitutional referendum in 2010?

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is now February and if the Taoiseach is thinking of having a referendum in 2010, with all that entails, I imagine he would be fairly advanced in his thinking about whether or not it was going to take place. There is a gap in the Dáil schedule in June, which is a week when no sittings are planned.

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wondered why he had put that gap into the Dáil schedule. I know how much he likes coming here.

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It must have caused the Taoiseach considerable thought to have put a non-sitting week into the Dáil schedule for June. I wondered what that week was about. I thought maybe it was the week the Taoiseach might have an election or a referendum.

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach might let us know.

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has already lined up three items for possible referenda. In all seriousness therefore, if he is going to have a referendum in 2010 he must have his mind settled now as to whether or not it will happen. He should tell the House. He knows well how people respond when a referendum is sprung on them and run at short notice. If there is going to be a referendum in 2010 on any of...

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Was it in October? The Taoiseach has been engaged in so much revisionism that I forgot when it was.

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When is the Taoiseach going to set up the electoral commission?

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Who will be on it?

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I shall pursue the matter of the 760 people who are to lose their jobs and become unemployed in a employment market in which there are few, if any, other available jobs for them. When did the Government first hear this bank was going to close its branch network? Was there any meeting between any Minister and a representative of this bank to discuss its plans? When the chief executive of...

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I find the Taoiseach's reply incredible. Is he telling us that the first the Government heard about this bank's intentions was yesterday when it sent a redundancy notice to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment? This bank has been on the radar quite significantly, not only in respect of its approach to lending. Arguably this bank's lending practices contributed to our banking...

Constitutional Referenda. (10 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach his plans for constitutional referenda during 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3174/10]

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Some 760 jobs are to go in the Bank of Scotland (Ireland), while yesterday it was announced that 175 jobs are to go at Boston Scientific in Galway. That is almost 1,000 jobs in two days, on top of the 436,000 people who are already out of work as we saw from last week's live register figures. The biggest and most urgent issue currently facing this country is to get the economy repaired and...

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Unfortunately, that answer does not tell me any more than I already know about the international content services centre. The programme for Government states that budgetary support is being committed for six priority areas in the knowledge society report, one of which is the establishment of an international content services centre in co-operation between the digital hub and the IDA. The...

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Potential, yes.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not know the first thing about it.

Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach knows nothing about it.