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Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Mó náire ar an Tánaiste. Tá seo uafásach. Bhí an Tánaiste ina hAire Gnóthaí Sóisialacha agus Teaghlaigh í féin.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Ba cheart go mbeadh a fhios aici go gcuirfí caipéis mar seo os comhair na Dála

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Ba cheart go gcuirfí an chaipéis seo os comhair na Dála. Ní sí ar fáil

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If these were measures that were impacting on well-heeled people with many connections or on banks or professionals with professional bodies and so forth, the matter would not be passed over in this manner. These measures are impacting on people who are poor and an assessment was supposed to have been done on the impact of the budget on the poor. I have some straightforward questions. Has...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has insisted on guillotining the debate on the social welfare Bill, which must conclude this evening. That is the Government's choice, not the choice of the Labour Party. There is a requirement to have the impact of the budgetary measures on poor people laid before the House. Where is the document? Did the Government do an assessment of the impact of the budget on poor...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The debate will be guillotined.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Before Deputies contribute to the debate, we want to know where is the document. Did the Government do an assessment? It is becoming patently clear that the silent Ministers on the front bench, including the Minister for Finance who introduced the budget - the silver spoon wing of the Government - did not examine its impact on poor people.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Where is the document?

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I have two questions which are in order. Is there a document showing the assessment of the impact of the budget on poor people? If so, will it be laid before the House. I invite the Tánaiste to reply.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government did not give the poor a second thought.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Kenny that this is an arrogant Government. It is so arrogant that it wants to put this Bill through, round up all its people, round up its six strays and get them in here this evening to vote on a measure-----

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Unlike Deputy Power I am a voluntary stray. Deputy Power has been compulsorily strayed. This Government is attempting to pass a social welfare Bill to take money from the blind and those providing care in the home for sick members of their family rather than having them in institutional care at greater cost to the State. The Bill also takes money from widows and from people paid less than...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not dispute the ruling of the Ceann Comhairle but what happened here yesterday was a Thierry Henry moment. The ball was handled and the rules being applied are the FIFA rules.

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the creation of 900 civilian posts within the Garda has resulted in the release of only 144 Garda personnel for front line policing duties as highlighted in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46188/09]

Garda Deployment. (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the new Garda Síochána national model of community policing; the number of gardaí committed to community policing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46187/09]

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a disgrace. The budget is built on bad economics and bad politics and delivered by a broken Government. It will divide the country not unite it. It will destroy jobs not create them, and it will push hundreds of thousands of families deeper into poverty. Every family is today paying the price for 12 years of incompetent, reckless, dishonest Government by Fianna Fáil and the wealthy...

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share time with Deputies Higgins and Quinn.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I will take 20 minutes to 25 minutes and the balance can be shared between both Deputies.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with one thing the Minister for Finance said yesterday, namely, that the late Senator Ted Kennedy was one of the best friends this country ever had. I am pleased that his memory is to be honoured, but Ted Kennedy's name should not have been invoked to dignify a budget that flies in the face of everything that he worked for and fought for.

Financial Resolution No.5: General (Resumed). Debate resumed on the following motion: (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Ted Kennedy spent his entire life trying to get a decent health service for the people he represented. The biggest cut in any of area in the budget is to health services. Ted Kennedy was a man who fought for the poor. He said the poor may be out of political fashion but they are not without human needs. He would never have supported measures that take money from the blind, carers, widows...