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Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Government pay pensioners and others the Christmas bonus?

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not agreed. Proposal No. 2 proposes the Dáil shall adjourn until 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday next, 29 October. We have a bank holiday on Monday, but that is fine because we would not expect to sit on Monday anyway. However, I see no justification for us not sitting on Tuesday. Whatever about not sitting on Tuesday, there is even less justification for not sitting until 2.30 p.m. on...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am reminded of something Patrick Pearse once said and would like to draw this to the attention of the Government: Beware, Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people, Who shall take what ye would not give. The Labour Party opposes the proposal that the House should not meet until 2.30 p.m. next Wednesday. That is a daft proposal in these times and circumstances. I ask...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Defence the effect stringent conditions in Chad have had on the health of the Irish Troops serving the EURFOR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35870/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Estimates: Departmental Estimates (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will make a statement on the Estimate for his Department for 2009. [35871/08]

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to use the brief time available to me to put on record as leader of the Labour Party that it stands foursquare behind Deputy Howlin in what he did and in the way he handled this matter from beginning to end. Moreover, I believe the public owes Deputy Howlin and former Deputy Jim Higgins a debt of gratitude for what they did. They behaved responsibly. They were provided with...

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is shocking for the country that such a level of corruption and behaviour should have been taking place in County Donegal and that members of our police force should have behaved like backwoodsmen in the deep south in the worst kind of nightmare movie. It was shocking and the degree to which such behaviour serves to undermine the Garda force itself and public confidence in it, as well as...

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On behalf of the people of this country and the Government through which the Garda reports and is accountable to the public, I expected the Minister to outline how he intends to avoid a recurrence of these events in order to restore a public confidence ruptured by what was discovered in Donegal and defend the vast majority of gardaí who are equally appalled by what happened.

Morris Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It was wrong to use this opportunity to engage in partisan, cheap and nasty politics. It is unbecoming of the Minister and, before the debate concludes, he should at least have the grace to withdraw his comments.

Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There are three matters I wish to raise with the Tánaiste on the Order of Business. First, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, announced some time ago that he would introduce legislation to put a cap on spending by candidates in the local elections. I asked the Taoiseach about this two weeks or so ago, but he did not appear to know a great deal...

Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On the matter of capping spending limits for local elections, do I understand from the Tánaiste's reply the Government has not yet made a decision to bring forward legislation on that? If it has not been brought to Government, has a memorandum on the issue been brought to Government?

Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Therefore, the Government has not made a decision to bring forward legislation.

Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The local elections will take place in June 2009 and the Minister sounded serious about introducing it.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Every Member of the House will have the opportunity of showing where he or she stands on the education cuts and increases in class sizes when the Labour Party tables a Private Members' motion on the issue next Tuesday. I want to pursue with the Tánaiste some of the matters I raised yesterday with the Taoiseach in regard to medical cards for the over 70s. I want her to answer two questions...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Frankly, if the Tánaiste is having problems now in getting her backbenchers to vote for the repeal of the 2001 Act, let us see how they face up to a legislative measure that takes the medical card off the people who currently have a legal entitlement to it.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Given that people who are over 70 continue to have a legal right to hold medical cards and given the made-up nature of the figures on which yesterday's announcement was based, cannot the Government make a decision before the pensioners assemble on Molesworth Street later this morning to do the decent thing and leave them with their medical cards?

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste did not answer the first two questions I asked her, that is whether it is the position that the Minister can change the income limits at the stroke of a pen after 1 January, when these measures will be enacted. Will the Government index-link the new income limits? I would like an answer to those questions and I understand other Members seek answers to those questions before...

Active Citizenship. (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the recommendations of the task force on active citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19441/08]

Active Citizenship. (22 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the task force on active citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24712/08]

Written Answers — Combat Poverty Agency: Combat Poverty Agency (21 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the expected saving to the Exchequer from the announcement in Budget 2009 in relation to the Combat Poverty Agency. [35626/08]