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Financial Resolution No. 1: Income Tax (6 Dec 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: He rowed back from that. It created the impression that something was going to be done about stamp duty which has not happened.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Income Tax (6 Dec 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: It is the time.

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (5 Dec 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date for the completion of the next census of psychiatric hospitals; the number of patients of psychiatric hospitals that have been resident for 20 years or longer; the number of deaths in psychiatric hospitals in 2005; her Department's policy towards long-term stays in psychiatric hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (5 Dec 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there will be no further examination of the question of vaccine trials involving babies and children in institutional settings in the 1960s and 1970s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41470/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Dec 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 398: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of outstanding applications for the carer's allowance; the reason it is taking 12 weeks to process such applications; the action he will take to provide for the speedier processing of such applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41235/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Dec 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 399: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason there has been a delay in the processing of a claim for unemployment benefit for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41238/06]

Community Development. (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The area of Mountwood and Fitzgerald Park is one of the areas of disadvantage in my constituency. It is an area which contains old local authority flats and maisonettes which are now undergoing redevelopment. For many years there has been a community development project based in the area, which has done excellent work in the local community in providing educational supports, community...

Lansdowne Road Stadium. (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will expand on his recent comments that the difficulties between the Irish Rugby Football Union and Wanderers Rugby Club regarding the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road represents a family dispute; his views on the fact that if this dispute is not resolved in the near future, the redevelopment of the stadium will be delayed; and...

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has not done enough.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask the Chair to call on the Minister to withdraw that comment. It is not a parliamentary comment.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The comment relating to me and Deputy Cuffe is not parliamentary language. I demand that it be withdrawn.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask for the remark to be withdrawn. The Minister called me a hypocrite and he should not be permitted to call me that. Will the Chair require him to withdraw it?

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the Minister going to withdraw the remark?

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: A point of order, this is a personal attack and I want the remark withdrawn. The Minister may make any kind of political charge he wants about me and I will respond. If he wants to raise some issue relating to my constituency, he can raise it here and I will respond to it, but he should not come in and accuse me of being a hypocrite.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I made no personal attack on the Minister.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister did, he accused me of being a hypocrite.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Withdraw it.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I want the remark withdrawn. I do not accept that.

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party opposes the motion. It does not do so because of its intrinsic merits, which the party might support in a different context. If there was general compliance with Ireland's Kyoto commitments, some of the benign purposes for which this motion is intended might recommend themselves to the party. However, Labour Members oppose it because they wish to flag what is happening in...

Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: ——and returns enthusiastically converted to the need to do something about it. Let us tell the Minister the history of this. The Kyoto Agreement was reached in 1997, the year Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats returned to Government. The Minister has had the entire life of the Kyoto Agreement — almost ten years — to get it right and he has not. He now faces a situation...