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Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I was not threatening. I was promising.

Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to reassure the Tánaiste that I do not make threats. However, I promise that if what happened yesterday is repeated there will be consequences.

Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What information does the Tánaiste have on when the other Morris reports will be published? She clearly expects that they will be published in a matter of weeks.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I congratulate the Members nominated for appointment by the President to the Government. In particular, I congratulate the new Ministers, for whom it is a great day. I congratulate my constituency colleagues, the Minister, Deputy Hanafin, who has retained a position in the Cabinet, and Deputy Barry Andrews, who will be appointed. I join in the tributes paid to the former Minister, Deputy...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a condition in which small acts of kindness by the captor are magnified by the one who has been captivated. An untold story of the formation of the Government is that of the shameful collaboration by the Green Party on the day the Government was formed in putting in order the paperwork for a motorway through Tara.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister and his people telephoned the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government repeatedly.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister could not wait, he was in so much contact with the——

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He should.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the Minister withdrawing the comment?

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I can understand why the Green Party did not manage to stop US military aeroplanes landing in Shannon Airport, but I cannot understand why it did not get an inspection regime.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There is some irony in the fact that, while the former Minister, Mr. Michael McDowell, a free marketeer, managed to keep the incinerator out of Ringsend, it will now be built on a Green Party Minister's watch.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What is new about this Government is not its composition, but the circumstances in which this phase of single party Fianna Fáil rule is taking office. When the Labour Party left office in 1997, the economy was growing at a rate of 10%. Now it is growing at less than 2%, the lowest rate in 20 years. In 1997, jobs were being created at a rate of 1,000 per week. To date this year, jobs are...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: In many cases and if they can find a buyer, that property is worth €100,000 less than what they paid. If the home is an apartment or in a mixed development, they may pay €2,000 per year in rip-off charges to a developer under the masquerade of a management company because the Government has repeatedly refused to accept this side's calls for the regulation of property management...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I was struck by one of the comments made by the Taoiseach in proposing this Government. He stated: "Nowhere is the need for a new approach more acute than in the health service." If that is the case, he has made a bad start because nowhere should he have exercised his authority as Taoiseach to effect a change of ministerial responsibility more than in respect of the Department of Health and...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There are plenty of jobs in Government which the very able Minister for Health and Children could do. What was clear from last year's general election, however, was the absence of a public mandate for the strategy and approach to the health services being taken by this Minister.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion. (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: A clear majority of the people, including many of those who voted for candidates who are now in Government, rejected the approach to health services being taken by the Minister, Deputy Harney. If the Taoiseach really wanted a new approach in health, that is a ministerial change he could and should have made. He has conveyed the impression of being a tough guy at the helm but he was not very...

Nomination of Taoiseach (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He might get the call yet.

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I support Deputy Kenny's proposal. What we are doing here concerning the election of a Government is a very important constitutional function whereby the elected Members — the 166 people who have been sent to this House by the people of the country — effectively transfer executive authority from the Dáil to the members of the Government. We have spent the last month paying tributes and...

Allocation of Time: Motion (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I therefore support Deputy Kenny's proposal that the time be extended by one hour. It is a reasonable request and one to which the new Taoiseach could readily agree.

Nomination of Taoiseach (7 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an dTaoiseach nua atá tofa ag an Dáil. Is onóir mór é don Teachta Cowen, a chlann, a chairde agus a chosmhuintir i gContae Uibh Fháilí. Glacaim leis gur duine an-chumasach agus an-chliste é. Guím ádh mór air go pearsanta i leith na dualgais Stáit agus phobail a bheidh air amach anseo. I congratulate the Tánaiste, Deputy Cowen, on...