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Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the Taoiseach not answering questions on the Order of Business this morning?

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is somewhat unusual that the Taoiseach should take all the Order of Business questions together. While I appreciate that the Order of Business is running a bit longer than normal this morning, I hope this does not create a precedent. I wish to support Deputy Kenny's point on the EU Committee of the Regions. Based on the results of the local elections, the Labour Party, like Fine Gael,...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Those who have been following the Northern Ireland situation would have been struck by the meeting which the Taoiseach had in the past couple of days with the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, and with the quite public manifestation at that meeting, or at least the public part of it, of the bad relationship, which seems to exist between the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach will also be aware that one of the issues which has caused concern north of the Border is the establishment of NAMA. Were NAMA and its implications for Northern Ireland discussed at his meeting with the First Minister and Deputy First Minister? Has the Government given any consideration to the possibility of appointing somebody from Northern Ireland with a Northern Ireland...

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: To return to the policing issue, I listened to the reply the Taoiseach gave to Deputy Ó Caoláin. I want to underline the urgency about getting the policing and justice issues devolved. First, it was agreed and therefore that agreement should be implemented. Second, all of the parties represented on the Executive support the devolution of policing and have expressed that view publicly. I...

Order of Business (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: No, it is not agreed. As I indicated previously, the Labour Party will not agree to the manner in which the Government is ordering business because of the undemocratic manner in which it railroaded through the House last week the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill, which will cut blind pensions, as well as the allowances to carers, widows and people with disabilities, and this week...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This week last year Mr. Seán FitzPatrick resigned as chairman of Anglo Irish Bank after it was revealed he had been moving personal loans off the books of Anglo Irish Bank to another institution and then back again in order to conceal them. At the time, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, expressed his disappointment. Since then, we have had a high profile Garda raid on the bank...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to correct the Taoiseach on one matter. It is not the resources of the State that are dealing with the banking situation; it is the people's money.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Some €11,000 million of the people's money has been put into the banks by the Taoiseach. He makes it sound as if the call made yesterday by the Governor of the Central Bank was from some disinterested economist writing in some obscure journal. This is the Governor of the Central Bank who was appointed by the Taoiseach's Government to oversee the banks.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He thinks there should be an inquiry. He is not the first to do so. When the Taoiseach first came into the House with his bank guarantee idea, the Labour Party proposed the sending in of an inspector to the banks. We proposed an oversight committee for NAMA. Mr. Colm McCarthy, highly favoured on the Taoiseach's side of the House, proposed there should be a DIRT-style inquiry. There were...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He did so because he does not want an investigation-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----into what happened in the banks because it will expose the close connection that exists between Fianna Fáil, developers and bankers. He does not want an investigation because it would expose the fact that the regulatory authorities did not do their jobs.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: An investigation would also expose the fact that the Taoiseach presided over this when Minister for Finance. He is afraid that in an inquiry the track will lead to his door. That is the reason he will not allow it and for the response he has just given. This is not going to go away.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The people of this country are paying dearly for the failure of our banking system, through cuts in pay and social welfare payments, services and the unavailability of credit from the banks. We are not going to draw a line under this. We are not going to say that was then and this is now and let us all move forward.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The people of this country are entitled to know what type of carry on was going on in the banks that led to the mess we are in now. Just because the Taoiseach was Minister for Finance at the time and is afraid that political culpability will land at his door is not a good enough reason to block the type of inquiry that the Governor of the Central Bank has asked for.

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not baseless. Why will the Taoiseach not allow an inquiry?

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If the remark from the Minister for Transport, Deputy Noel Dempsey, was directed at me I will regard it as a badge of honour.

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation at the British-Irish Council meeting in Jersey on 13 November 2009. [42336/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his meeting on 28 November 2009 with the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. [45297/09]

Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he make a statement on his meeting on 30 November 2009 with the British Prime Minister. [45298/09]