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Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I join the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in expressing my horror at the three gun murders which occurred since the House met last Thursday. Mr. Eddie Ward, another man in the wrong place at the wrong time, joins a list of people, including Ms Donna Cleary and Mr. Anthony Campbell, who have been gunned down in cold blood. There have been 14 gun murders this year. In 1997 prior to his election...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a message of defeat. We know the problem in getting convictions arises because the associates of criminals do not co-operate. Some do so out of choice and some because they are afraid. We know there is a culture of intimidation and fear associated with these gangs, but that is not a new problem. It was encountered in the United States and Italy when the authorities in those...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach did.

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The witness protection scheme

Order of Business (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the ordering of business for the remainder of this session. We have started this session at a pedestrian pace and much of the legislation the Government is bringing before the House is on Second Stage. In previous years, the same pattern was followed and we found ourselves, in the last couple of weeks, with a large amount of legislation being put before the...

Order of Business (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Which of those pieces of legislation does the Taoiseach intend to have enacted in this session? Will the business of the House be ordered in such a way that the legislation the Taoiseach wants enacted will at least get a decent debate?

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the long promised Judicial Council Bill is expected to be published; the consultation he has had with members of the judiciary regarding the contents of the Bill; his views, in view of a recent case, that there is still no procedure for dealing with breaches of conduct by judges apart from the impeachment process...

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (9 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the fact that more than 10,000 requests were made by the Gardaí during 2006 under the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 for access to personal telephone records; if he accepts the view of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner that such a number of applications suggests that innocent...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Not through Shannon.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: In less than three months it will not be possible to get a flight from Shannon to Heathrow. There is no point in telling people that they can get a flight to Orlando if they want to travel to London. In less than three weeks time——

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: ——due to deteriorating industrial relations in Aer Lingus, it may not be possible to get an Aer Lingus flight to anywhere. Last weekend British Midland indicated that it does not intend to run a service from Shannon to Heathrow. I would like the Taoiseach to tell us the name of the proposed carrier that will offer a service from Shannon to Heathrow. As I understand it, it was either...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Why were the two directors not appointed at a much earlier stage? Why is it now, only after the horse has bolted, that the two directors are being appointed apparently with a mandate to protect the State's interests in that company?

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: My question refers to the Shannon-Heathrow route.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for the early part of his reply which clarifies entirely the position on the Shannon- Heathrow service. It is quite clear from the Taoiseach's reply that the Shannon-Heathrow service is dead.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: All the talk about finding an alternative has simply dried up, particularly with the British Midland decision.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I interpret the Taoiseach's response to mean that connectivity and not Heathrow is the issue, that the Government is now no longer actively pursuing a service from Shannon to Heathrow.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: That is what it comes down to.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: He says you can go to Gatwick and Stanstead and if you want to go to Disneyland they will provide a service to Orlando.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: However, if you want to do business through Heathrow there will not be a service.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach, in his reply, stated the Government is abandoning the Shannon-Heathrow route. That is a disgraceful abandonment of regional policy and of the people of the west and mid-west. It is an abandonment of the country's strategic interests as they relate to Aer Lingus. In his reply to the question about the appointment of the board the Taoiseach said the decision was a management...