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Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I take this opportunity to congratulate Senator Ciarán Cannon on his election as leader of the Progressive Democrats and to commiserate with my former constituency colleague, Senator Fiona O'Malley. It is great to see that the Progressive Democrats will still be led by somebody from Galway. I welcome that. The Constitution provides that the only Cabinet position that a Senator may not...

Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Which Deputy does the Tánaiste suggest should write to him, is it the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, or Deputy Grealish?

Order of Business (Resumed) (17 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I would not like a dangerous precedent to be set that leaders of parties would not be in Cabinet.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There is nothing facile or superficial about this issue. A 76 year old woman who had a heart attack has been lying on a trolley since last Monday. She has been feeling so bad about her condition that she has been asking her family to allow her to die. Her family have been on the national airwaves to talk about it. It is not an isolated case. The problem of accident and emergency at the...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that and I do not want to stray out of order but I would ask the Tánaiste to get——

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is funny, is it? It would not be funny if any of our mothers was lying on a trolley like that.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This woman needs a bed in a proper ward and needs treatment. Would somebody over there go and sort it out, please?

Order of Business (17 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise a second matter. Yesterday a High Court judge, dealing with a case involving the custody of the child of a lesbian couple and a biological father, criticised legislators for not having introduced legislation to deal with the rights of same sex couples. He said that such legislation was urgent. In March 2007, the Labour Party introduced a Bill to legislate for civil unions...

Death of Former President: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Thar ceann Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre, déanaim comhbhrón le clann Uí hIrighile ar bhás an iar-Uachtaráin, an Dochtúir Pádraig Ó hIrighile. Ní raibh aithne pearsanta agam ar an Dochtúir Ó hIrighile, ach is cuimhin liom an ard-mheas a bhí air ón phobal mar Aire i rith na seascaidí, mar Aire Stáit ag tús an fhoréigin sa Tuaisceart, mar Aire Gnóthaí Eachtracha a rinne an...

Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Revenue Commissioners——

Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is defending a loophole. He should abolish it.

Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Why not apply principles?

Official Engagements. (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his visit to Poland and his discussions with political leaders there. [8733/08]

Official Engagements. (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his visit to Slovenia and his discussions with political leaders there. [8734/08]

Official Engagements. (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his visit to Austria and his discussions with political leaders there. [8735/08]

Official Engagements. (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of the spring EU Summit on 13/14 March 2008. [10893/08]

Official Engagements. (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the details of meetings he had with other EU leaders on the margins of the spring EU summit on 13 and 14 March 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10894/08]

Official Engagements. (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his meeting on 10 March 2008 with the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Tan Dun. [11396/08]

Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to raise with the Taoiseach a tax scam that was first raised by my colleague, Deputy Burton, and that cost the Exchequer approximately €250 million in 2006. This is the tax scam whereby developers purchasing development land can get away with paying no stamp duty. As I understand it, the developer pays the money to the land owner who enters into a licence agreement with the...

Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Perhaps my understanding of basic economics is less than that of the Taoiseach, but I do not understand the reason the Taoiseach can retain stamp duty, albeit at a changed rate, on the purchase of houses. He states that will not affect the property market, but a developer buying development land who has to pay stamp duty on land he or she might not develop for many years to come somehow will...