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- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The National Economic and Social Development Office (amendment) Bill is due to be published next year. It is intended that a debate on the report of the Smithwick tribunal, which has been submitted to the House, will take place in the new year.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The heads of the housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill are expected shortly. The Bill is due to be published next year. As the Deputy is aware-----
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The heads of the Bill are expected shortly, as I have said. It will be published after it has been drafted. The intention is to publish it next year. We are not waiting for legislation. In the meantime, the Minister of State with responsibility for housing has announced a €100 million housing programme for next year.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill in question is still at Committee Stage. I understand that some amendments to that Bill are to be made. I understand the Minister for Justice and Equality will circulate those amendments in the near future.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: My understanding is that the Water Services (No. 2) Bill is in the Seanad. It is expected it will be completed in the Seanad early next week and that it will come into this House. The issue of the taking of the Bill in the House is something to be considered by the Whips.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have heard the submission which Deputies Broughan and Stanley have made about sitting on Friday and the Whips will consider that.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Arrangements for a debate on the policing plan can be discussed by the Whips-----
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and at the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. I am sure the Deputy and the House will welcome that this Government, after a long number of years, has recommenced the recruitment of gardaí.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It would be more appropriate to raise this issue with the Minister for Education and Skills. There is no legislation on this issue.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: If it is laid before the House, there are ways-----
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There are ample ways in which this can be discussed, including at Question Time with the Minister for Education and Skills and at the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection. That is the appropriate way to deal with it.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The monuments Bill is due next year. In regard to wind turbines, the Minister of State with responsibility for housing and planning has draft planning guidelines on that matter and is inviting submissions on them. She is very willing to consider the submissions made to her on the matter. She wants a very open and full public consultation on this issue because she is very aware of the...
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 was passed earlier today. I recommend that Deputy McGrath gets up a bit earlier in the morning and attend to business.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not see any legislation to prevent aeroplanes falling out of the sky.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am sorry the Deputy is missing his child's Christmas play but can I predict what the Deputy will not miss? I think he will not miss the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party away day in 2015 before the general election because I predict that-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----that is where he is heading.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I predict that Deputy Donnelly will be wearing the Fianna Fáil jersey at the next general election and between now and then-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----he will do Fianna Fáil's work for them by coming in here and saying, "I am an Independent and I am quoting a very worthwhile independent document in order to criticise the Government".
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have the answer for Deputy Donnelly. The party that I believe he will be a candidate for in the next general election cut social welfare rates, cut the minimum wage-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and put low paid people into the universal social charge. This is the Government that has taken low paid people out of the universal social charge, reversed the cut in the minimum wage, reinstated the joint labour committees and protected people on core social welfare rates.