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

Eamon Gilmore: ——about how teachers should be more flexible and change the way they do things. The people who need to change the way they do things——

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

Eamon Gilmore: ——include the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who has become more out of touch in 15 or 16 months in Government than Fianna Fáil did in 11 years. I met the principal of that school yesterday evening when she was up here for the protest. I expected her to talk to me about the school buildings, but instead she spoke about school books. Her school was one of the beneficiaries of the book...

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

Eamon Gilmore: How does he justify cutting 8% from the budget for youth services at a time when society is concerned about what is happening on our streets? We need to provide worthwhile activities for our young people. Deputy Frank Fahey challenged me and the Labour Party about where we would get the money. I have two answers to that. First, the Government is not making savings at all because down the...

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

Eamon Gilmore: ——that it builds incinerators which it told people it was never going to allow build or that it allows prisoners to continue to be rendered through some of our airports? The Green Party is dead; the Green Party is beaten and this is a sad day for this country. However, the Green Party has an opportunity to recover and to redeem itself. The Green Party can make a stand here today. This...

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise three small matters.

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: No, they are not, we do not get provincial newspapers in Dublin until Friday. This week last year, the Government voted down a Labour Party Private Members' motion to restore to the Order Paper the Labour Party Private Members' Bill on civil unions. The Government promised it would introduce its own legislation. Some time ago it published the heads of a Bill but we have not heard anything...

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This is an important matter.

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not trying to change the Standing Orders. Who is trying to change measures which were approved by this House?

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Do we have a situation whereby the Government tells the public that the banks will be liable if a bank goes under and tells the banks that the public is liable?

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Who pays if a bank goes under?

Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is important.

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

Eamon Gilmore: I do not think it is mutual.

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (29 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his policy on post codes; the cost of implementation; the cost of consultancy on this issue to date; his views on whether the growth of GPS will make post codes redundant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37122/08]

Written Answers — Nuclear Power: Nuclear Power (29 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on recent comments from the chief executive officer of ESB regarding nuclear power; if he will remove the ban on nuclear power; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37121/08]

European Council: Statements (29 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I welcome the European Council's approach to the banking crisis. With its emphasis on the protection of taxpayers, transparency in the banking system, a system of executive pay in the financial sector that encourages responsibility and co-ordination between EU member states so as not to risk "beggaring thy neighbour", it provides a model which the Government would do well to emulate. It is...

European Council: Statements (29 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It will be a case of, "Do you come here often?"

European Council: Statements (29 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach knows the Labour Party position.

European Council: Statements (29 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach will get his chance. We ask the questions; he will answer them.

Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach clarify the point raised by Deputy Rabbitte in earlier questions about whether AIB and Bank of Ireland——

Order of Business (29 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——are covered by the guarantee scheme?