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Cabinet Committees. (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: No. I am following what the Taoiseach has said.

Appointment of Ministers of State (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: First, I join with Deputy Bruton in congratulating Deputies Áine Brady and Calleary on their appointment as Ministers of State. It is a proud day for them and I wholeheartedly congratulate them. I also congratulate all the Ministers of State who survived and commiserate with those who were not reappointed. While it is a disappointing day for them, to some extent that is the way of...

Order of Business (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I submitted a standard question to the Taoiseach for oral reply on the constitutional referenda that the Government plans to hold for the remainder of 2009. It has been answered many times in the past, on 13 occasions since 2005. On this occasion it was transferred by the Taoiseach to the Minister for Health and Children and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Why is the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Chief Whip stated: "I would like to confirm that the Government intends to run the by-election for Dublin South on the same day [as the local and European elections]". There is no ambiguity about that.

Order of Business (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach's reply is much more ambivalent. My question is simple. The period of time within which the writ can be moved for the holding of that by-election on 5 June is very narrow. There is a short timeframe. Will the Government proceed on that basis? Will the by-election for Dublin South be on 5 June? While answering that, the Taoiseach can tell us the Government's intention with...

Order of Business (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He is into it.

Order of Business (22 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has been here a good while.

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the performing arts module, which contains a strand for dance, cannot be modified for inclusion in the mainstream leaving certificate, as many students who attend these art subjects outside school are high achievers and confining this to the leaving certificate applied discriminates against them; if he will meet and have...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share my time with Deputies Pat Rabbitte and Ruairí Quinn.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This budget screws middle-income working families and does little or nothing for jobs. Take a couple earning a salary of €45,000 each. The budget will cost them €900 on the income levy on top of the €900 they started paying in January, €1,800 on the increased health levy, €1,000 by losing the early childhood payment for their two young children, €900 by losing their mortgage...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Yet again, the banks have not been cleared out. The boards and the executives who created this mess are still in place. There are 200,000 more people on the dole since the last general election but the top bankers keep their jobs. They are even resisting the salary restrictions which the Government belatedly imposed. This is astonishing. It would not happen in any other country. The...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: At the outset, on my own behalf and on behalf of the Labour Party, I extend our sympathy to the family, friends and colleagues of the late Garda Robbie McCallion whose life passed away tragically yesterday. Today and tomorrow we will have an opportunity to have a long debate on the budget, on the extent to which the Government has screwed working families on modest incomes, on the decision to...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: As I understand it, the plan is that the Government will use Government bonds to take off the hands of these property speculators and developers-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----the half finished apartment blocks we see everywhere, the empty hotels and office blocks and the land that was bought at exorbitant prices on borrowed money from the banks. This represents the so-called bad debts we are talking about.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We are talking about assets, bad debts and toxic debts. The property that was bought by property speculators with borrowed money will now be bought back with Government bonds at taxpayers' expense.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Business people who are pushed to the pin of their collar to keep going or whose businesses have gone under because banks will not lend them the credit they need must wonder what the developers have at their disposal that they do not, given that the Government is prepared to take their property off their hands and relieve them of their bad debts. Not only will the Government buy back the...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Let us return to the question - how much of the property that will bought up with Government bonds is property abroad?

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is the question to which I would like an answer.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has already estimated that the total amount will be €80 billion to €90 billion. The Government has engaged, since the introduction of the bank guarantee, PricewaterhouseCoopers to examine the banks' accounts. We have had reports and studies on the banks and due diligence. The Government has had since September, which is a long time, to identify what the banks have or do...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----or what will be the contribution to the Irish economy to have Government bonds used to buy up property abroad. We know the amount of bad debt is estimated to be €80 billion to €90 billion. I want to know how much of that is represented by properties abroad. I want an explanation on why the Government is going to use Government bonds, backed by the taxpayer, to buy up these...