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Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: My questions go to the heart of the issue. What are we being asked to guarantee? No Member of the House or member of the public would walk into a bank and sign a guarantee for anybody, even a close member of the family, without knowing how much he or she is going to guarantee, and they would certainly not sign it in circumstances where it was open-ended, with no limit to the guarantee....

Order of Business (1 Oct 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I seek clarification on the timetable. A time has not been specified for the conclusion of Dáil business today. Does the Government intend to allow the Dáil to continue in session until the provisions of the Bill and the financial resolution are dealt with?

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when women in each of the counties of the south and west will be included in the BreastCheck programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32154/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the long waiting times for persons seeking appointments with dermatologists; her plans to increase the number of dermatologists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32155/08]

Business of Dáil: Motion (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not object to what the Chief Whip is proposing but I express concern over what is happening. When we met earlier today, we were given an initial timetable for the day's proceedings, which involved Question Time at 2.30 p.m. and Leaders' Questions at 3.30 p.m. We were given to understand that the Bill from the Minister for Finance to underpin the guarantee he is giving to the banks...

Business of Dáil: Motion (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We are dealing with probably the most serious matter that will arise during the lifetime of this Dáil, an issue relating to the security of the country's financial institutions, the banking system and the implications this has for people's jobs and businesses. Quite rightly, people are looking to what is happening here and the outcome of our discussion. Last night, the Government made a...

Business of Dáil: Motion (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Can I ask——

Business of Dáil: Motion (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: These are exceptional times. I will raise a point of order if that is how the Ceann Comhairle wishes me to proceed. There is a constitutional procedure for dealing with legislation. Under Standing Orders, legislation is required to be published. That is the First Stage of a Bill and we cannot proceed beyond that. That is the way it is. If the Government cannot meet the deadline, that is...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach describes the circumstances we are in as an unprecedented disruption in financial markets. What we have seen in the past 24 hours is that a decade of corporate greed, property speculation and, in many cases, irresponsible banking has come home to roost. I accept the Government has had to act to deal with the crisis in banking and the financial markets. I hope it works....

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is very good, a Cheann Comhairle, but frankly I do not need any lecture at all from the Taoiseach about the importance of the banking sector to the economy. I remind him that as far back as 25 June last, I raised here with him the difficulties that were emerging at that time in banking. I raised the difficulties that people were experiencing with banks and the effect of the credit...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Let me tell Deputy Power, the Government has been doing nothing for quite a while now.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When it comes to doing nothing, they are the specialists.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is why the Irish economy is in its current difficulties. However, we must deal with what we have. A decision was made to provide a guarantee. There is a risk to the State and the taxpayer in that. The banks will gain from it, which is obviously good for the banking sector, which will continue on. What I want to understand is if we take a risk, what is the return? What comes back?...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (25 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a commitment that any proposal to introduce a carbon tax in Budget 2009 will include measures to ensure that the burden does not fall disproportionately on those on lower incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31328/08]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (25 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will proceed with the development of mass public transport systems for Dublin as proposed in the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31327/08]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the proposal to close a club (details supplied) in County Tipperary; her views on whether the services provided by this organisation are vital to the community of the town; if she will intervene to stop this closure going ahead; and if she will make a statement on the...

Order of Business (25 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Every other country has targets.

Order of Business (25 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to pursue a little further the Tánaiste's reply about the information which will be made available to the Opposition and the House in advance of the budget. I ask her specifically about the statement made by the Minister for Finance last night that it is his wish to have a redundancy scheme across the public service. Is it intended to present a paper to the House setting out...

Order of Business (25 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There are 46 civil servants working in the private and constituency offices of the Tánaiste and her Ministers of State at a cost of €3 million per year. The Minister of State, Deputy John McGuinness——

Order of Business (25 Sep 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——who describes civil servants as unfeathered, plump State hens, has ten civil servants——