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Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We can all engage in that. It would be more becoming of the Taoiseach to take responsibility and offer a little bit of contrition to the people who will have to take the pain this evening.

Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is the Government's job to manage what is happening in the economy. We now have a very hard landing. It has not come entirely as a surprise because everybody has known that there was going to be a landing of some kind at some stage. For a number of years economists and commentators have been speculating on the prospect of whether we were going to have a soft landing. It was his...

Leader's Questions (14 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It was a party for a privileged circle many of whom were close to the Taoiseach's party, and at the end of the day it is the general public and taxpayer who will have to pay for it. The Taoiseach is not taking responsibility for what has happened. He is not taking responsibility for the consequences and for the people who must bear the pain and whose pockets will be rifled now to pay for...

Written Answers — Election Monitoring: Election Monitoring (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has been monitoring the preparations for the elections planned in Bangladesh for December 2008 at which it is planned to reintroduce a multi-party democracy; and if the EU has offered to supply election monitors or other assistance which may be of use in this context. [34194/08]

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We are being asked to agree to a motion relating to the arrangements for next week's business. Yesterday, the Opposition parties were approached to agree a certain arrangement in respect of the ordering of business next week in order that the budget and the Government's scheme relating to the bail-out of the banks might be accommodated on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, of next week....

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There are two matters I want to raise. One relates to the matter Deputy Kenny raised, namely, the matter of the banks passing on the reduction in interest rates to their customers. There is a second matter I want to raise. What approach should I take?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Kenny regarding the reduction in interest rates. That all of the main central banks in the world co-operated yesterday is unprecedented. It is the first time we have seen major international regulation and control of banking. The mortgage holder, the business that has a loan from a bank, and the customers of banks should benefit from that. It would be unthinkable for...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The second matter that I want to raise relates to information of which we were made aware this morning. I refer to the Private Residential Tenancies Board and the fact that 100 cases have been struck down because the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government improperly, inappropriately and, as it turns out, illegally, appointed two county councillors to the board of the...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We are dealing with the Order of Business. I want to ask that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government come into the House today to explain that decision. Cronyism is not new in Fianna Fáil but we now have incompetent cronyism——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to know whether the Minister will come to the House to explain why these appointments were made and account for something that has caused quite serious problems for the Private Residential Tenancies Board.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has told us that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, did not receive the advice given in June to the effect that he was not entitled to appoint county councillors to the Private Residential Tenancies Board. I again ask if he will come before the House today to explain these appointments——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——and tell us what advice——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——caused him to appoint a Fianna Fáil councillor from County Donegal and a Green Party councillor from County Monaghan to the PRTB.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: As Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh might say, there are big residential tenancies markets in both counties.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: These were utterly improper appointments.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister come before the House or will he make a statement now?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Will he make a statement?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We have a report on the PRTB.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Does he want to make a statement?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order, it has been a long-standing practice that when a Minister does something improper, he makes a statement and answers questions in the House. This week we received a report from Threshold indicating a huge increase in the number of illegal evictions.