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Suspension of Member (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It most certainly is being opposed.

Suspension of Member (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Ceann Comhairle persists with it——

Suspension of Member (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ——I will lead my Deputies out of this Chamber in protest at the unfair treatment of Deputy Shortall.

Suspension of Member (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party Deputies will leave the House in protest at the Minister's failure to answer Deputy Burton's question which gave rise to the request by the Ceann Comhairle that Deputy Shortall should leave the House. When we ask questions in the Chamber the Minister should reply to them. Instead of doing so, he headed for the door at the first opportunity he got. That shows disrespect to...

Suspension of Member (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is ironic that it is Deputy Shortall. Deputy Shortall protested——

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This issue raises questions not alone of corporate governance but of governance of the country.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to retrace with the Minister how this came about. I understand from what he said that this loan was reported in the PricewaterhouseCoopers report which his Department received in October. The Minister stated his officials thought this sufficiently serious they requested the Financial Regulator to investigate the matter but that they did not bring it to his attention until...

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Am I correct that the Minister read only the sections of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report which were drawn to his attention or highlighted by his Department, that the Department was considering a recapitalisation of this bank prior to the decision on nationalisation, that in the context of that recapitalisation nobody drew this matter to the Minister's attention and that nobody prior to the...

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We are coming to the end of this round of questions and I have listened very carefully to what the Minister has had to say. The replies that he has given to us this afternoon raise the most serious questions about his performance in his office, and the most serious questions about his future in that office.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am coming to a question. The State has given an extraordinarily generous guarantee to the banking system. PricewaterhouseCoopers was appointed to examine the financial state of the banks and what we had got ourselves into. It beggars belief that the Minister did not read the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, even if one accepts that he was very stretched on time during the period concerned....

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He did say that. He stated that he did not read what was in the report about this loan, and that it was not drawn to his attention. He said that his officials reported it to the Financial Regulator but did not bring it to his attention. He told us that this report came before his Department in October and that he did not know about this loan until January. He has explained why. We know...

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: No, he stated that he did not read the report.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not saying it quietly at all.

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question : To ask the Minister for Finance when he or his Department first became aware of the reported transfer of €7 billion from Irish Life & Permanent to Anglo Irish Bank, €4 billion of which was transferred on 30 September 2008, the day on which the bank guarantee scheme was announced; the investigation being held into the transfer of these moneys; if his attention has been drawn to...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We were not told. The Government introduced legislation on an entirely false premise. It had very substantial information which affected the status of Anglo Irish Bank and what we took on when we nationalised it, and the Government did not inform us about it. It is not a small matter. The consequences of all this for the public finances, the country, the taxpayer, jobs, business and our...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It will require a closer examination of the text of what was said on those days to establish formally whether misleading of the House took place.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The issue we are pursuing with the Taoiseach is not a small matter. It is clear from the replies we got during Leaders' Questions that the Government knew about the €7 billion loan.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not asking for a debate on it now, but I am asking for a debate during the day. The issue at stake here is that the Government came in and asked the House to pass a Bill nationalising a bank whose accounts had been effectively falsified by the loans it got from other institutions. The Government knew that at the time it brought in the legislation.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is not a small matter.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is now telling us that there were issues of general governance. This is not an issue of general governance.