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Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach knows the answer too and that is why he is not prepared to have-----

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the estimate in respect of his Department for 2010. [46961/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which decisions announced in Budget 2010 will impact on the operation of his Department or agencies for which his Department has overall responsibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46962/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the savings to his Department's payroll bill for 2010, arising from cuts in public sector pay announced in Budget 2010 on 9 December 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46963/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the bodies or agencies, operating under the aegis of his Department, to which the terms of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No 2) Act will apply; the estimated reduction in the annual wage bill of each such body or agency; the average reduction in pay in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48422/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the savings that will accrue to his Department arising from the public service pay cuts applied by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No 2) Act; the number of personnel whose pay has been cut; the average reduction in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1582/10]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the number of personnel in his Department to whom the full public service pay cuts provided for by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No 2) Act will not apply by virtue of circular 28/2009 issued by the Department of Finance on 22 December 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1583/10]

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have some questions for the Taoiseach about the cuts in pay to staff of his Department. Have these pay cuts already commenced, and from what date did they commence? Second, I refer to the decision that was taken subsequent to the Act being passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas to vary the manner in which it was to be applied to the grades of assistant and deputy secretary. Was that...

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I acknowledge the Taoiseach's response regarding the Moriarty tribunal and I will await the clarification he intends to send to me on the Health Service Executive circular and the position regarding the staffs of bodies that are funded by the public purse, rather than those who are directly employed in the public sector. I wish to pursue the other two matters I raised a little further. The...

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Was such an order signed? Is there a commencement order in this regard?

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the question on the decision about-----

Departmental Expenditure. (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I refer again to the way in which the decision was made to vary the application of the pay cuts in the case of the higher grades because I am unclear. As I understand it, the decision was made by the Minister for Finance and the Government was informed. Had the Minister discretion in the way in which the pay cut was applied? The Taoiseach explained the rationale for changing the way it was...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Prior to the House agreeing to this, will the Taoiseach confirm that it will not involve the payment of a chairperson and all of the panoply that goes with the appointment of Oireachtas committees?

Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: About 100 flights in and out of Ireland have been cancelled this afternoon as a result of industrial action taken by air traffic controllers. Spokespersons for both the Irish Aviation Authority and the trade union concerned were on television last night and they effectively said that this was going to escalate. One spokesperson stated that more air traffic controllers were likely to be...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Thank you. I am glad to hear it.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is of little comfort to those waiting with their suitcases at the airport this afternoon.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach's response to the call for a public inquiry - I heard the Minister for Finance this morning making the same point - is to attack the idea of a tribunal. Nobody is proposing the establishment of a tribunal. What the Labour Party has proposed is that there should be a parliamentary inquiry similar to the DIRT inquiry. The Government should stop knocking something that has not...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We can understand the systemic importance of the two big banks with branches in every town in Ireland but why did the Government decide to give a guarantee to what was a piggy bank for rogue developers in many cases, as we now know? We have seen that within four months it had to be nationalised, with huge sums of the taxpayers' hard-earned money put in to keep it afloat. These decisions...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has said the European Commission wanted to save Anglo Irish Bank. Let us hear directly from the officers in the European Commission who had that opinion by means of an inquiry.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We can hear their opinions on whether Anglo Irish Bank should have been saved at that stage. Some €11 billion of taxpayers' money has gone into these banks to date. Within four months of the Government introducing a guarantee for Anglo Irish Bank, it had to be nationalised. The cost is enormous. We can leave aside the issue of whether the inquiry will be held in public or private for a...