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Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This is something which affects people. The PRTB made 100 decisions which have been struck down and I want the Minister to make a statement.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This is not something——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Why did the Minister appoint county councillors from County Donegal and County Monaghan——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——to the Private Residential Tenancies Board, even though he had no authority to do so?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I apologise. Is the Minister replying to the question I raised earlier?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am raising a point——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am raising a point of order.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am raising a point of order.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We will have to get to know each other a bit better, a Cheann Comhairle. The Ceann Comhairle said that personal statements made by Ministers are at their initiative. I am saying this Minister did something that was illegal last June.

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If that is not——

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no innuendo.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way he will achieve the reduction of 3% in payroll costs for his Department, as announced by the Minister for Finance in July 2008; the cost saving measures initiated and the amount saved by each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33759/08]

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank all Members who contributed to the debate on this Labour Party motion, and I compliment my colleague, Deputy Willie Penrose, for tabling the motion. We have been talking here over the last couple of weeks about serious problems in the economy, and more recently the banking crisis. However, there is a jobs crisis in this country that has been going on for months and no significant...

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a similar situation in my constituency.

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The local VEC plans to build a new senior college in Blackrock but funding has been pulled by the Department of Education and Science. The VEC has concluded an arrangement with Dún Laoghaoire-Rathdown County Council for funding of the scheme. All that is needed is the approval of the Department. If the Government could see its way to invest the same confidence in the principal and the...

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: With the price of diesel we will all be back to carts and horses.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, in response to a question from my colleague, Deputy Ciarán Lynch, yesterday, announced that the Government would introduce legislation to cap expenditure in local elections. I welcome that announcement. When will this legislation be introduced? Given that local elections are scheduled for June next year, will the Government...

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On the electoral issue, the Taoiseach seems to be implying that this was a personal opinion expressed by the Minister. Is it not a Government decision to have a cap on spending in local elections?