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Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: With whom will the Government engage?

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach deferred the issue by making an absolute mess of it.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party is not prepared to agree the Order of Business until we secure clarification from the Taoiseach in respect of the social welfare Bill. Last week, it was intimated the Bill would be taken next week. Today, there is some talk around the place that there is a possibility or an intention on the part of the Government to have the legislation put through the House on Friday of...

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This is new information provided to the House. I asked the Taoiseach about the post-budget legislative arrangements the Government intends to make. The Taoiseach is now telling us that there will be two very significant tranches of legislation. The Social Welfare Bill is obviously intended to cut social welfare and the Government proposes to rush it. We will have the budget on Wednesday....

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Ceann Comhairle wants me to call a vote on every one of these five proposals I will do so.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Whatever way the Ceann Comhairle wishes to handle it is fine but we have very little time. This is the point I have been making and it is not the first time I have raised this matter. Since the Government has decided the budget will be introduced this week there is very limited time between budget day, tomorrow, and the recess for Christmas to debate the budget. We are now told there will...

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Forget it. We are not going to agree to that or anything remotely like it.

Ministerial Travel. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has said on a couple of occasions in reply both to this question and the previous question that new guidelines are now in place. Will he tell the House what are the guidelines, for example, in respect of overnight accommodation? Do the guidelines make it plain that the era of the €900 a night room is over and that accommodation has to be arranged on a more modest basis in...

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the number of reports commissioned from consultants since June 2007 to date in 2009; the cost in each case in respect of his Department and the agencies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41723/09]

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The number will be smaller next year.

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I will leave the frogs for a moment. I have heard the Government accuse the Opposition of many things but whatever we may have done a long time ago, we were not going around counting frogs.

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is great.

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to discuss this review of the economic regulatory environment, which cost €408,000.

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: A reply to Deputy Burton on 6 October has a figure of €408,375.

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It states it is a "review of the economic regulatory environment". Is that different?

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Who did that?

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: What was involved in that report? The McCarthy report looked at-----

Consultancy Reports. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking a supplementary question arising from the original question, which concerns the costs of consultant reports. This states, "Review of Economic Regulatory Environment - €408,375". Why did it cost that much? The wide-ranging McCarthy report cost one tenth of that. Why is the Government paying large sums for reports on the regulatory environment? What was involved?

Standards in Public Office. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to introduce amendments to the code of conduct for officeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37272/09]

Standards in Public Office. (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: In his opening reply the Taoiseach said that codes of conduct for office-holders would be amended after the Ethics in Public Office (Amendment) Bill has been enacted. If this is the case we will have a long time to wait. This Bill has been around for a long time. The Taoiseach will recall this Bill was first announced in October 2006 by the then Tánaiste, Mr. Michael McDowell, when he...