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Written Answers — An Teanga Ghaeilge: An Teanga Ghaeilge (29 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 24: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cathain a fhoilseofar an Straitéis Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [2565/09]

Order of Business (29 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: A great deal of rehearsing went into that.

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Eamon Gilmore: The matter I wished to raise has been already raised by the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Power, who beat me to the draw.

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Eamon Gilmore: The Government is engaged in a great deal of codology here about this document. Everybody has the document. It is in the newspapers. We know what is in it. The Taoiseach came in here yesterday and read into the record of the House approximately 60% of what is in the document anyway as his script to this House, but without telling the House that it was much of the text of what was being...

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Eamon Gilmore: It is important.

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Eamon Gilmore: We are in the middle of a debate on the state of the public finances.

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Eamon Gilmore: Some 20,000 extra people unemployed makes some difference.

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Eamon Gilmore: Are there 20,000 additional unemployed——

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Eamon Gilmore: ——that we did not know about?

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Eamon Gilmore: Sorry?

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Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Tánaiste for offering that. Would she also ask the officials in the Department of Finance to tell us the revenue lost from a taxation point of view? I am quite happy to do it that way. I do not necessarily want to do it here on the floor of the House, but if the Tánaiste——

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Eamon Gilmore: We are in the middle of a debate——

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Eamon Gilmore: ——about the public finances.

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Eamon Gilmore: No, I mean the House is in the middle of a debate on the public finances.

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Eamon Gilmore: All I am trying to establish is — the Tánaiste has made an offer and I accept it — that the information regarding the additional social welfare cost will be made available to us, and I thank her for that. What tax revenue will be lost as a result of unemployment? Will the Tánaiste ask the Minister for Finance to make this information available to the House?

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (28 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress on the amalgamation of the National Library of Ireland, the National Archives and the Manuscripts Commission; if legislation will be required to enact the amalgamation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2254/09]

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Since this country went into recession the Labour Party has taken a positive and hopeful view of our country's economic affairs. We have concentrated on putting forward solutions, suggestions seeking to convey our belief that, as a people, we can get through this recession, there can be better times and, however difficult the adjustment may be, that it will be worth it in the end. Despite...

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Let us consider some of points the Taoiseach made today. He said that the Government has a clear strategy which it will continue to implement. If it has a clear strategy, we have not been told about it and we certainly did not hear about it today. As for continuing to implement it, I advise the Taoiseach that "continue" is not the verb for these times, "change" is the verb for these times.

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Taoiseach continues to lead this country in the way he is and if he continues on the road he prescribed in his speech, he will lead it to ruin. He told us that there is little point in looking back at how some of this might have been anticipated or avoided. From a Government that has been in office for 11 years, the Taoiseach has some neck to say there is little point in looking...

The Economy: Statements (28 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We must also look at the VAT situation. The flood of consumers going over the Border cannot be ignored. Equally, falling prices are likely to result in consumers postponing their spending. A temporary cut in VAT would have the effect of boosting incomes and would also help to shift the growing expectation of falling prices. There has been a similar shift in sentiment among the buyers of...