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Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not object to the Dáil not sitting next week. It is normal practice in the week of a referendum. However, I must express concern about the time context of this adjournment. There was a very short sitting this week. For the life of me I do not understand why the House does not sit on the Tuesday after a bank holiday. It is nonsense and the House should address it at the earliest...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This is to enable me to assess the proposal. Does the Government have any plans for the Minister for Finance to introduce a supplementary Budget Statement to the House between 17 June and the summer recess?

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We have nine sitting days left until the Government plans to close this House down for the summer. We have been supplied with a draft schedule for three of those days, 17 to 19 June, inclusive, which leaves just six days free for business other than that which the Government has listed for those three days. Will the Tánaiste indicate what business the Government intends to transact in the...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——prices are rising and cutbacks are being imposed on public services day in and day out.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I am not finished on this point. There are completely changing economic circumstances. The Government appears to have its head collectively buried in the sand and it is proposing——

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——to close down the Dáil. This House will adjourn today until 17 June.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, I am talking about the Order of Business between now and 4 July. What plans does the Government have to make a statement to the House so that we can all consider how it intends to deal with the changing economic circumstances?

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have another issue I want to raise later.

Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the deterioration of the Exchequer position over the first five months of 2008; if he has plans to present an updated profile of Government revenues for 2008 in view of the fact that he has acknowledged that the Exchequer is unlikely to recoup in the second half of 2008 the shortfall from the first five months of 2008; and...

Written Answers — Price Inflation: Price Inflation (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that inflation remains persistently high; if he proposes measures to bring down the inflation rate; if he has or intends to instruct the National Consumer Agency to take specific steps to tackle inflation and predatory pricing; if he will take steps to protect the real incomes of workers during the upcoming national pay...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is the policy of his Department not to provide funding for men's gender equality groups; his views on whether this is consistent with the Government's commitment to equal treatment; if he will therefore reconsider his decision and grant funding to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On Thursday, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, who was taking the Order of Business, told me the employment agency regulations Bill will be published this session. She told me that in response to a question I put to her about the Government's position on the temporary agency workers directive being considered by the European Union at present. I indicated to her that the...

Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not understand the answer. The social partnership talks surely do not include what will be in a European directive. There are two issues. I can understand social partnership discussions will clearly involve what will be in domestic legislation but the immediate matter is that Ireland and Hungary are now the only two countries blocking a European directive on temporary agency workers....

Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not debating it but I want to know if the Government will drop the veto it is exercising on the introduction of European legislation to protect temporary agency workers.

Order of Business (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Is that in terms of the Employment Council?

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Last Friday, I was in the National Rehabilitation Hospital on Rochestown Avenue, which is in my constituency of Dún Laoghaire. I met there two young men, both of whom are paralysed from the neck down. In both cases the paralysis is the result of diving accidents. One young man was diving into a swimming pool when on holiday in the United States while the other hit a sandbank when diving...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for agreeing to pursue the issue of the two unfortunate men involved. I hope that this will produce a result for them that has not been possible to achieve to date. My colleague, Deputy McManus, raised the issue on the Adjournment last week. In a case like that we should not have to ask the Prime Minister to resolve and address the issue. The case is not isolated. I...

Commissions of Investigation. (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a request for a meeting with the Justice for the Forgotten organisation; if he will meet with it; if he has raised with the British Prime Minister the contents of the motion passed by the House in March 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19447/08]

Commissions of Investigation. (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When we had statements here on the Barron report and the report of the Oireachtas committee at the beginning of the year there was considerable disappointment among the families of the victims that the opportunity was not taken to have an agreed, all-party motion on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and what needed to be done following those reports. This motion could have been similar to...

Commissions of Investigation. (4 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach's reply is very helpful. There was a desire for an all-party motion on this. As I said, the draft submitted by Deputy Costello seeks to have the Ceann Comhairle convey to the speaker of the British House of Commons the content of the motion and what is required following it and directs the Taoiseach to pursue the matter in certain ways with the British Government. That would...