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Proposed Legislation. (23 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the constitutional or legislative steps he expects will be required following the outcome of the EU summit in Brussels on 18 and 19 June 2009. [24931/09]

Written Answers — Criminal Assets Bureau: Criminal Assets Bureau (22 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on amending the law to allow the Criminal Assets Bureau apply to forfeit seized property after two years rather than the seven year wait; if he has an estimate of the additional revenue that would be raised if this change were made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31150/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (22 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the recommendation contained in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes that the system of garda allowances on top of pay, and high levels of overtime should be reviewed with a view to making savings of €50 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Order of Business (22 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am surprised to hear the Tánaiste's reply about the date of the budget. Given the report of the Commission on Taxation, the McCarthy report and other issues that have stacked up in terms of decisions that must be made on public finances, it is extraordinary that the Government has not yet decided a date for the budget, a deadline that Departments and everyone involved must meet. Is there...

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste describes today's CSO figures, which show jobs are disappearing and emigration has started again, as a "challenge". The people who are challenged are those who have lost their job, for whom the challenge is how they will pay their bills. The people who are challenged are those whose businesses are in trouble and for whom the challenge is how to get credit to keep going and...

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste is right in one thing she said. Our system of justice, certainly as it pertains to corporate crime, is not the same as that of the United States. In that country they treat corporate wrongdoing somewhat more seriously than we do apparently. Our system of justice in Ireland, as it pertains to corporate crime, is not the same as it is in the US. Corporate wrongdoing in the US...

Order of Business (22 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am surprised to hear the Tánaiste say that no date has been set for the budget. This time last year when, arguably, the economy was not in extremis to the extent that it is now, the Government thought it necessary to bring forward the date of the budget with a big announcement. We are almost at the end of September and most people anticipate that the budget will be presented at the end...

Order of Business (22 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Has it even been discussed?

Active Citizenship. (22 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the task force on active citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32535/09]

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Not for 12 years.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: No Minister who has been in Government for two years has used the word "will" more often.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach in his speech this morning said that there are three steps to economic recovery. He is wrong; there are four. He always keeps forgetting about and omitting the fourth. It is jobs, getting people back to work and addressing, through labour market measures, the needs of the people who have lost their jobs and who will lose jobs in the economy. The Labour Party agrees that we...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We can all agree on a number of points in this debate. First, that there is a banking crisis, and that it needs to be addressed urgently. A modern economy needs a functioning banking system, and the large retail banks are part of the nervous system of the Irish economy. We need these banks in particular to be capable of normal lending – to families and businesses across the country. It...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Can the Minister continue indefinitely to call on the valuation panel to reconsider unless and until it comes up with an answer that suits him or her? In setting up NAMA, the Government has sought to vest it with some of the authority of the NTMA. The Governor of the Central Bank is also mentioned in dispatches. It is clear from reading the Bill that NAMA will have very little real contact...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is going to extraordinary lengths to avoid public ownership in what it claims is the national interest. The argument for temporary nationalisation is well established and clear. It avoids the risks involved in the valuation of loans and affords taxpayers the prospect of sharing in the benefits of a revived banking system. The Minister knows this. There have been many attempts to...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (16 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 561: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that plans by Drogheda Port Authority for a new deep water port at Bremore have been made available for inspection only in the superintendent's office at Drogheda Garda station, that plans can only be inspected in the presence of members of the Garda and that no copying or photocopying of these plans...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Not so.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We were not.

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister outline the risks?

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (16 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Nothing will change.