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Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: In the budget the Minister for Finance announced the amalgamation or abolition of a number of State agencies, which I understand will involve the amendment of approximately 17 Acts. Having asked previously if it was intended to make these amendments in one Bill or separately, I am still unclear as to what are the Government's intentions in that regard. What are the Government's plans for...

Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When does the Taoiseach expect the implementation plans to be completed and available to Government? Arising from that, when will we have some indication as to what legislation will be introduced? Are the implementation plans to which the Taoiseach referred confined to the amalgamations announced in the budget or is it intended to go further than the budget announcement?

Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When will the Taoiseach move the writ for the Dublin South by-election?

Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach move the writ at all?

Order of Business (19 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When will he move it? Will it be this side of Christmas?

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position of the decentralisation programme for his Department; the cost to date; the cost of the temporary accommodation for officials and storage; the cost of travel due to officials having to travel to Dublin for Departmental business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40914/08]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of recreational areas or parks that have received funding from his Department or its agencies in each of the past five years; the criteria attached to such funding allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40913/08]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 25 September 2008, regarding the FÁS decision to close the jobs club in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that under the terms enshrined in the Jobs Club Operating Manual issued by the Employment Services Unit of FÁS...

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am shocked by the Taoiseach's response to Deputy Kenny. It made him and the Government seem like helpless bystanders.

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a credit famine in this country. Businesses are being starved of credit. The position in this regard was outlined yesterday by the Small Firms Association, which indicated that many small businesses have experienced their worst month of trading for 20 years. It also stated that unless specific actions are taken within a matter of days, the small business sector will implode and...

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is correct and we were quite right to do so as it turned out.

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not need to remind me that the Labour Party voted against the blank cheque that the Government decided to give the banking system which——

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——incidentally, the Minister for Finance described only a couple of weeks ago as the cheapest bail out in the world so far. He also stated that the guarantee scheme had successfully attracted a lot of liquidity into the banking system.

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If it has, it has not managed to work its way back to Irish business. It now looks as though we are heading into the worst of both worlds, namely, a blanket guarantee for the banking system and, it would appear, an increasing inevitability of recapitalisation of the banks with taxpayers' money, which we were told the guarantee scheme was designed to avoid in the first instance. I want to...

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What was their answer?

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Why have we not heard it?

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach should answer the question I asked and not the question he would have liked me to ask him.

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach should answer the question.

Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has some control over them.