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Official Engagements. (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is it still the Government's intention to have agreement concluded at the June summit on the texts required to enable the Government to bring forward a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty? What progress has been made on the development of those texts and at what point will the main Opposition parties be advised as to that progress? Did I detect from the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Bruton...

Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: My question is about the publication of the legislation, which is in order. In his Supplementary Budget Statement we were given the impression by the Minister for Finance that the legislation to establish an bord bailout would be introduced quickly. The Taoiseach has now said it will be some time in the summer legislative session. The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural...

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach began both his replies to Deputy Bruton with the words "I do not accept".

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He did not accept it last week either when the IMF told us that the bank bailout in this State would be more expensive for Irish taxpayers than for those anywhere else. The Taoiseach told us in so many words that the IMF had its figures wrong. The IMF later clarified the position and stood over its figures. Today we have an ESRI report telling us that the economic recession in Ireland is...

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a fine bit of theory. Of course getting people back to work depends on economic growth but the Taoiseach's strategy is not designed to grow the economy.

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It will shrink the economy and take more money out of it. The dithering approach of the Government, with one policy this week and another in two weeks' time, is adding to the decline in confidence in the Irish economy, both domestically and internationally. People are losing their jobs, businesses are declining and there is a huge drop in consumer activity. Much of this is due to the lack...

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Nothing in the budget will generate employment, support employment activity or encourage employers to take on new employees. There are no measures in place. The State agencies have not been re-geared to deal with the immediate problems facing people who are losing employment or are self-employed and cannot get assistance. In some cases, self-employed people cannot even get income...

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach can talk all he likes or as loudly as he likes but that is the reality. The proof is in the declining employment figures we see month after month. There are now almost 400,000 people unemployed and the ESRI report states the unemployment rate will reach 17%, almost one in five people, by the end of next year. That is a disgraceful record. It is not good enough. It is no...

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 3 March 2009, the number of schools and sports clubs which made joint applications under the Sports Capital Programme 2008; the number which were successful; the amount granted to these applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16350/09]

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is important that the House and members of the public are kept informed by the Minister for Health and Children of up-to-date information on the spread of the swine flu, as it is known. There is considerable public worry about this issue. People get information about developments on matters of this nature through the media and on international websites, blogs and so on. It is very...

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It would not have happened under the previous regime.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It would not have happened under Deputy Hanafin.

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is like the Ardagh chalice.

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I welcome that the industrial action of unofficial stoppage in Dublin Bus has ended. I echo the statement issued yesterday by the Labour Party spokesperson on transport, Deputy Broughan, who promptly called for a return to work and I hope there will not be a repetition of the kind of unofficial action we have seen which has caused so much disruption to commuters and people in Dublin. This...

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He says he has no confidence in the Fianna Fáil Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Mary Coughlan.

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He says she is not up to the job. He says, "she is not equipped to deal with the complex issues facing her Department and neither is her Department". When the Tánaiste issued a statement denying he had said he had no confidence in her, in a further statement Deputy McGuinness claimed he said to her face at a meeting on 11 March that he had no confidence in her. He went on to say, "she has...

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I remind the Taoiseach that these criticisms come not from the Opposition but from his own side of the House. As far as I and the Labour Party are concerned the Tánaiste has our support in the work she is doing today. We want her mission abroad to succeed. These are comments that have come from a Minister of State appointed originally by the Taoiseach's predecessor and reappointed by the...

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach gave a very half-hearted reply. If either Deputy Kenny or I made those types of criticisms about the Tánaiste or about any of his other Ministers, he would be fit to be tied to his seat in terms of the response he would give us.

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I can only contrast that with the response he has given today which is muted and half-hearted, particularly by the Taoiseach's own standards.

Public Service Reform. (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach listed some of the many groups that have been established to examine various aspects of public service reform. I confess that I lost track of the various groups as the Taoiseach went through them. I would like to focus on one group, in particular. The programme office that has been established in the Department of the Taoiseach seems to be pretty substantial. I understand...