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Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will say the following to the Taoiseach. I believe he is excluding the issue for political purposes. What he is now establishing is not an inquiry into what went wrong in the banking system so that we can learn from it. He is establishing something to cover the tracks of bad decisions made by him and his Government for whatever reason, which is not acceptable to us and I do not believe...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What did it cost? What was the price of it?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What is the price of it to date?

Written Answers — Parliamentary Counsel: Parliamentary Counsel (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 156: To ask the Taoiseach if the recruitment of Parliamentary Counsel from other jurisdictions has raised any difficulties in achieving a uniform drafting style for legislation. [48538/09]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Finance if the cuts in pay provided for in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009 applies to employees of organisations funded under section 30 of the Health Act 2004 who currently qualify for a pension under the nominated Health Agencies Pension Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48643/09]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the case being made by the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Rochestown Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin for a new 235 bed hospital; if consideration is being given to the proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48266/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 434: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position between the Health Service Executive and the health unions regarding the incentivised early retirement scheme; if she has met the parties concerned; the action she is proposing to deal with this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1472/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 731: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the delay in an appeal for jobseeker's benefit being determined in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the fact that the appeal was lodged on 16 October 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48448/09]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1007: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will acknowledge all relevant work experience and pay all incremental credit under the scheme for special needs assistants in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48305/09]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1077: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm receipt of an application for a contract of indefinite duration in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; when a decision will be made on this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1392/10]

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When I asked the Taoiseach just before Christmas about holding an inquiry into what happened in the banking sector he was very reluctant to agree that there should be such an inquiry. He informed us today that he and the Government have given the matter careful consideration. That is true. They have given it very careful consideration. In the face of the Labour Party motion that is before...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: By the time that commission of investigation eventually reaches conclusions, we will be told, as we were in the case of the Murphy and Ryan reports, that we have to wait until persons who are named or identified in the report have seen the draft and have an opportunity to respond to it, all of which will put it safely beyond the next general election, which is where the Taoiseach wants to put it.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In case the Taoiseach did not get it, he has amazingly excluded himself in his previous role as Minister for Finance and his Department from the inquiry. According to the amendment the Government has produced, these reports will consider the international, social and macroeconomic environment which provided the context for the recent crisis in the banking sector. There is no mention of the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask the Taoiseach specifically why the Department of Finance and the Minister for Finance have been excluded from the remit of this so-called inquiry. Why, for example, does it say that this inquiry will investigate banking up to September 2008? What does up to September 2008 mean? Does it mean 31 August? If it does, does that not exclude the very month in which the Government...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Dead right.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: First, nobody has proposed a tribunal style inquiry, so the Taoiseach is trying to shoot down something that has not been proposed at all. What the Labour Party proposed was an Oireachtas inquiry along the lines of the DIRT inquiry and to support that-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We published a Bill to deal with the Abbeylara problem.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The purpose of it was to give an Oireachtas committee the power to deal with that. The Taoiseach has not told us, first, why the Department of Finance and the Minister for Finance have been excluded from the remit of what is being proposed.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: He has not explained why this inquiry is to be conducted in private. The last time he made an attempt to say he was not too keen on the idea of an inquiry, before Christmas, he told us that he did not want the time of officials and of people in the banking sector to be taken up with having to deal with an inquiry in these times.