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Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste has line responsibility for this area.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: A specific promise was made that a jobs and skills summit would be convened. The idea was that all the great minds dealing with employment and retraining would be assembled by the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is a naval officer himself.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not want to divide the House over the guillotine on this Bill, but the Labour Party Members are anxious that the House debate amendment No. 3 in the names of Deputies Ciarán Lynch and Joanna Tuffy. The purpose of the amendment is to give effect to the promises made by the Taoiseach at the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who is...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I object to the proposed recess. The proposal is that the Dáil will not meet again until 24 March, which is in 12 days time. St. Patrick's Day comprises one day, not 12. There is no justification for putting the Dáil into recess for 12 days. I am aware that historically it was difficult to arrange Government business during that week because virtually the entire Cabinet and every...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am setting out my reasons for objecting to the recess. Business remains to be done. Only four items of legislation have been enacted thus far this year. Of the 18 Bills promised by the Government in this session, only one has been produced.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, who is in the Chamber, promised five Bills last session but none was produced. Six Bills have been on the Government legislative programme since 2003. With the limited resources available to us, the Labour Party has published 16 Private Members' Bills whereas the Government, despite all the State resources on which it can draw, cannot...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is for sure.

Unemployment Levels: Motion (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank all Members who contributed to the discussion and compliment Deputies Róisín Shortall and Willie Penrose on bringing the motion to the House. I am extremely disappointed by the Government's response to the motion. The amendment proposed by it is defensive, self-congratulatory and argues for business as usual. The Government is abandoning the unemployed. In much of the commentary...

Written Answers — Water Quality: Water Quality (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 93: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he has taken to improve the drinking water infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10147/09]

Written Answers — Nuclear Plants: Nuclear Plants (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 95: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he has taken to bring about the closure of the nuclear waste facility at Sellafield, England; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10139/09]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person holding a valid green card must apply and pay for a re-entry visa each time they leave the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10372/09]

Northern Ireland: Motion (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: On behalf of the Labour Party, I support the motion proposed by the Taoiseach. Last January in the Round Room of the Mansion House we celebrated the 90th anniversary of the first Dáil, which was the exercise of a democratic mandate, under universal suffrage throughout this island, calling for self-determination for the Irish people. Those who gathered in the Mansion House on 21 January 1919...

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the way, in respect of his announcement of 3 February 2009, it is intended to effect the 8% reduction in professional fees for services provided to or funded by his Department; the amount expected to be saved in his Department's budget as a result of this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4747/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the way, in respect of his announcement of 3 February 2009, it is intended to achieve the general administrative reductions in regard to his Department; the amount expected to be saved in his Department's budget as a result of this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4748/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: What are the services for which professional fees are paid by his Department? Is it intended that the 8% reduction in professional fees will apply to the Central Statistics Office, Office of the Attorney General and Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions? Are professional fees incurred by the Taoiseach's private office or the private offices of his Ministers of State? If so, will...

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is it intended to apply the 8% reduction to fees paid to lawyers engaged in the Moriarty tribunal? We have had questions about the tribunal, which comes within the remit of the Department of the Taoiseach, on a number of occasions in the House. There is a degree of uncertainty about how much longer the tribunal will be in existence, when it will report and whether it will hold further...

Programme for Government. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if it is planned to make changes to the programme for Government having regard to the current economic situation and his announcement of 3 February 2009 regarding reductions in expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9618/09]

Programme for Government. (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is léir ón méid atá ráite ag an Taoiseach nach bhfuil an clár Rialtais beo faoi láthair agus nach féidir linn na bearta a bhí ann a chreidiúint anois. Ardaítear dhá fhadhb dá bharr sin. Tá an clár Rialtais tábhachtach mar is é sin an conradh idir na páirithe sa Rialtas. Níl a fhios againn anois cad é go díreach an conradh idir na páirithe sin ós rud é nach féidir...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to raise three matters. The Taoiseach will recall that for some time the Labour Party has been seeking the appointment of an inspector to examine what went on in the banking system and particularly in Anglo Irish Bank. The Government rejected that request and said the Director of Corporate Enforcement would carry out the necessary investigations. As the Taoiseach is aware, the...