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Official Engagements. (16 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement in his recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [45299/09]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in view of the budgetary implications for overseas development spending over the past 12 months, his views as to whether Ireland will honour its 0.7% target for 2012 and the effects this cut will continue to have on the world's poorest. [46853/09]

Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the recent referendum vote in Switzerland, at which it was agreed to ban the further building of minarets, has been discussed at European Union level; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46854/09]

(15 Dec 2009)

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

(15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann declines to give a second reading to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009 having regard to the decision of the Government to collapse talks with the public service unions that could have delivered major public service reforms and the savings required in...

(15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Wages, both in the public and the private sectors, inevitably raced to catch up with mortgages. I agree, there was a lot of money being made in those years, but it was not being made by the young couples, including many young teachers and civil servants, who took out enormous mortgages to pay for modest houses. Now that the bubble has burst, those homeowners are trapped in negative equity...

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: First, on the Ombudsman's report, the issue is that the Department concerned has rejected the Ombudsman's findings and recommendations. As she pointed out in her report, this is only the second time in 25 years that this has happened, which is the reason she has laid a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas. It is important that the House should address this matter in whatever form is...

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Ceann Comhairle, on a point of order, Deputy Shortall is in order in raising this question. This is a document-----

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a document which is laid before the House. As Deputy Shortall said, it is normally laid before the House as part of the budget documentation. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan raised this issue last week. It is clear the Government gave no consideration to the impact of the budget on poor people. It is stated in the Cabinet documents that it is required to indicate the impact of proposals on...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: When the Order of Business has concluded the House will begin to debate a Bill to cut the pay of State employees and to unilaterally change their conditions of employment. I want the Taoiseach to clarify two matters for me before we begin that debate. First, will the Taoiseach clarify to whom exactly the Bill will apply? There was speculation over the weekend that it might apply to...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----Leader programmes, development organisations and charities. I want the Taoiseach to tell me if the cuts in pay will apply not alone to direct employees of the State but to all bodies, as stated in the Bill, which are wholly or partly funded directly or indirectly out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas or from the Central Fund. Second, will the Taoiseach tell the House what impact...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to those to whom it applies, it is stated that it will apply to a body that is wholly or partly funded directly or indirectly out of money provided by the Oireachtas or from the Central Fund or the growing produce of that fund. As I understand it, that extends the application of the pay cut not alone to direct employees of the State but to all those employed in the various...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----on a family made up of a clerical assistant and library assistant, each earning €30,000 per annum and who have three children, the answer is €70 per week. Of course, the Taoiseach does not know what will be the impact of the cuts because the Government did not bother its barney to assess what would be the impact of its budgetary measures-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----on low paid employees and on the type of people, as referred to by Deputy Kenny, who are impacted by the cut in social welfare payments. There is a requirement on Government - it is in the Cabinet handbook - that every measure before Government be poverty proofed. It is to be examined to see what impact it will have on those who are in poverty or at risk of going into poverty. When...

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I know that.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is the type of information one would remember.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If it mattered to the Taoiseach, he would remember.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach must be joking; that is not the case.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party will not agree the Order of Business today because of the manner in which the Government is rail-roading measures through the Dáil. I refer to the cuts in social welfare, which it rail-roaded through on Friday last using a guillotine, and this proposal to rail-road through the cuts in pay, again by the use of a guillotine. All of this is part of a piece of clever...