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- Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The criminal justice (victims rights) Bill will serve to strengthen the rights of victims of crime and their families and give effect to a proposed EU directive. Preliminary work on the Bill is under way, but it is not possible to indicate a publication date at this stage.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: First, the Deputy has said we undertook to commit €40 million to address the issue of fuel poverty and fuel prices. Last year we committed more than that figure - €50 million - for the retrofitting of local authority homes-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Let me answer the question. As I said, we have committed €50 million for local authority homes alone and there is also €18 million for the improvement of the warmer homes scheme. This is not a short-term problem. The issue of high fuel prices and the cost of fuel is not one that can or should be dealt with on a short-term basis. We all know from experience that the price of...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That is what gets down the cost of heating a home and fuel. We are committed to doing this. Only last week I had a lengthy discussion with the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, about the plans he had to encourage more people to take up the retrofitting scheme and about the grants and various forms of assistance available through his Department and Sustainable Energy Ireland. We are going to...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: By the way, that is what the Society of St. Vincent de Paul states is the best way of dealing with the problem. It is contained in its report. I welcome the report it has presented. It is timely and that is what it states, that getting more people into the retrofit scheme is the way for us to go.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Most people in this country do not need a report from Grant Thornton or anybody else to tell them we have had an economic crisis. In 2008 the economy crashed, effectively. The people from whom we inherited the Government put the taxpayer on the hazard for the entire banking system when they introduced a blanket guarantee. The consequence was that the country and its taxpayers were made...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: One thing that is certain about the budget is that whatever is in it the Deputy and his party, and the Opposition generally, will oppose it. That is pretty certain and let us start with it. We are entering-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Of course, it is politics.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We are now entering political discourse on the budget, which is fair enough. Deputy Michael McGrath will not tempt me to tell him the budget figures in advance of the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform making their statements to the House.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The position has not changed. We are on track to exit the bailout programme this year. We know we have a deficit reduction target to meet. We also know we are seeing recovery taking place in the economy and we can all look at the figures which support this. We must ensure this recovery is not put at risk, that we continue to meet our targets and that the budget meets them, continues to...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is a bit rich coming from Fianna Fáil, when it signed up to an agreement at the end of 2010-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----which prescribed what would be in the budgets for the subsequent three years.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is true. Go back and revisit it. The utter hypocrisy-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This is total hypocrisy on the part of Fianna Fáil. It signed up to an agreement in 2010 which prescribed what would be in the budget.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We had to change this. Now that we have succeeded in getting us to a point where we are exiting the bailout programme and seeing the economy recovering-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----it is as if Fianna Fáil wants to wipe history clean and pretend it never had a hand, act or part in the mess we inherited in the first place.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I agree that energy costs and the price of fuel have been increasing. As a country, we are on the receiving end of the internationally set price of fuel. We are at the end of a very long pipeline from Russia. I have looked at the report from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and welcome it. In particular, I want to look at where the society focuses attention on what can be done to ease...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I acknowledge that Deputy McGrath has agreed the economy is recovering. I also acknowledge that many people have yet to experience that in their lives. We are seeing an increase in employment - 3,000 additional jobs per month. We have seen a drop in the live register figures this week and the level of unemployment is at its lowest level since 2009, down to 13.3% from a high of 15.1%. We...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Passports Act, 2008 provides, among other things, that only Irish citizens are entitled to be issued with Irish passports. Each application received by the Passport Service must, therefore, demonstrate that person's entitlement to Irish citizenship before a passport can issue to him/her. The children in question were born in the State in 2008 and 2010, their entitlement to Irish...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (3 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I spoke with the EU High Representative Cathy Ashton on Wednesday 28 August about the gas attacks in Syria on 21 August 2013. Syria was among the principal topics discussed at the informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers which I attended in Vilnius on 7 September and where we were briefed on the US perspective by Secretary of State John Kerry. I and my EU colleagues agreed that the Syrian...