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Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I referred to people on small wages.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What if they do not have €100?

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On the legislation to take medical cards from those aged over 70 years, will the Taoiseach be more specific about when it will be published and if it has been approved by Government? Will we have the normal arrangement, whereby there will be a two-week period between the taking of Second Stage and Committee Stage of the Bill? In July 2007, ethics legislation passed all Stages in the Seanad....

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When in the session will the Bill be taken?

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the HSE out of order in sending means-testing forms to pensioners before the legislation has been introduced?

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Under what legislation is the HSE acting in sending out such forms?

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach wants to answer.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When will the Bill come before the House?

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government will introduce the Bill at the last minute, which it will rush and then guillotine. Is that what is hatching?

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We know what the Government is up to.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That way we can all retire.

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach referred to the consequences of the referendum decision on the Lisbon treaty. One of those consequences was that Irish citizens do not have access to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which would have been part of the Lisbon treaty, had it been ratified. That would have provided Irish citizens, in European law, with a right to housing. Has the Taoiseach or the Government...

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: In regard to amending the Constitution, we had the All- Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, which produced ten or 11 reports, the last of which was produced in January 2006. That process appears to have run out of steam. Very few of the recommendations for constitutional change made by the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution appear to have been given effect. What...

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referenda the Government plans to hold over the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29632/08]

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach consult with Opposition party leaders in advance of the December summit? Will he say whether there is any provision in the Estimates and the budget for the holding of a referendum in 2009? The question relates not just to whether there will be another referendum on Europe, but to referendums in general. What is the position in relation to the holding of a referendum on...

Constitutional Amendments. (4 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Am I to understand from that response that the Taoiseach has confirmed no financial provision has been made for the holding of a referendum in 2009 and that the position, therefore, is that the Government has no plans to hold a referendum on any matter in 2009?

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of funding allocated to the national reserve in 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number of farmers who have benefited under each category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37440/08]

Written Answers — Food Labelling: Food Labelling (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the regulations and controls in place and the checks carried out by his officials in the meat factories on lamb imports and specifically the labels attached or placed on importers' labels when leaving factories here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37441/08]

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to thank all the Deputies who have contributed to this debate. In particular, I pay tribute to my colleague, Deputy Quinn, for tabling the motion and presenting the Labour Party's case on this issue. As I listened to the debate, I was thinking about a primary school in County Cork that I visited some weeks before the budget. It is a school of 245 pupils, all of them accommodated in...

Education Cuts: Motion (Resumed) (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: One of the things that struck me during that visit was a young teacher who became quite emotional as we stood in his classroom in the prefab building. He tried to explain to me what it is like to be in that room on a cold, wet Monday morning in winter. He had to try to make the children comfortable and get them warm before thinking about teaching them. He told me what it was like to be in...