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Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If 2,500 people are moved——

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Does the Taoiseach believe there are any staff whose jobs have been moved? This was to be done on a voluntary basis and staff were given the option that if their job moved, they did not have to go with the job. Are there many people whose job has moved but who now do not have a job to do?

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: All of them?

Decentralisation Programme. (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am surprised it is not the type of question the Taoiseach would have asked himself at some stage.

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This year FÁS registered 6,000 fewer apprentices than it did two years ago. Next year, it will be worse. The number of apprentices in construction will be down from 4,500 to 1,000 while the number in the electrical trades will be down from 2,500 to 1,000. It has been hard at the best of times for a young man or woman to get an apprenticeship. It will be harder next year. Many in current...

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not believe the Taoiseach has any sense of the public anger at the lavish extravagance and splurging of taxpayers' moneys involved. Nor do I believe he has any sense of the significant unease that this whole episode has caused for the majority of public servants who work conscientiously and for whom this carry-on is exposing them to being scapegoated and ridiculed. The Taoiseach is a...

Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Taoiseach made inquiries as to whether this type of carry-on is going on anywhere else in State agencies or across the public sector? Are board members and top executives of State bodies behaving like latter day Borgias at the taxpayers' expense anywhere else? In fairness to State agencies, those who work in them and the people who head them, some kind of inquiry should be ordered...

Order of Business (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party will not agree to any proposal on the Order of Business today until we have an assurance from the Taoiseach that the manner of dealing with the Combat Poverty Agency will be changed. The Minister for Finance announced in his Budget Statement that the Combat Poverty Agency was one of a number of State agencies to be wound up or amalgamated. Since then I have asked on a...

Order of Business (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——it is being done. I want the Taoiseach to give an assurance that it will be withdrawn from the Social Welfare Bill. It can be brought into this House, if he or the Minister for Social and Family Affairs wants to do so, and debated as separate legislation. It is interesting that the amendments circulated by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs provide for the transfer of...

Order of Business (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is neutering the agency but making no savings for the public purse in doing so.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is very disappointing.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative measures she plans to introduce arising from the new social partnership agreement; the proposed timetable for each such piece of legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41779/08]

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the risk equalisation legislation and the health insurance announcement made yesterday by the Minister for Health and Children, I understood the Tánaiste said the legislation would take some time to prepare. The Minister for Health and Children stated yesterday it would be presented before the end of the year. Will the Tánaiste clarify when we are likely to see it? If it is...

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There is. There is a road safety Bill. Will the Tánaiste clarify whether the summonses were struck down on the grounds that the by-laws were not published in Iris Oifigiúil?

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What is the position on those with penalty points?

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not.

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It has been known that the Ceann Comhairle has been driven fairly fast himself.

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the idea of the Minister for Finance having confidential meetings with the banks, I remind the Tánaiste that it is now our money that is supporting the banks.

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Finance——

Order of Business (20 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——may be having a private meeting with the banks but it is a matter of public of interest and public business.