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Written Answers — UN Conventions: UN Conventions (23 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government expects to ratify the UN Convention against Corruption in the current Dáil period or in the lifetime of the current Government. [24982/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (23 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 142: To ask the Taoiseach if tenders were sought in regard to the study of the public service commissioned by him from the OECD; if he is satisfied that all Department of Finance and EU requirements regarding public procurement were met when awarding the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24830/07]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (23 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 346: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a club (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive the grant of €19,000 under the transition support programme in view of the fact that contracts have issued and been signed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25111/07]

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (23 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 478: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department has narrowed the qualifying standards for tutors providing tuition to pupils for which parents are availing of home tuition grants provided by her Department; if her attention has been drawn to the adverse effects this is having on tutors who do not meet these specific qualifications and on the pupils who...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: At the last general election, there was one issue on which all political parties were agreed, namely that the level of social welfare pension should be increased to €300 per week. In addition to committing to increase the pension to €300 per week, the Taoiseach's party also promised to cut the PRSI rate by 2%. When that promise was made, the Government had in its possession an actuarial...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for giving me all that information about the Green Paper on pensions. I did not ask him about the Green Paper on pensions. I asked him about the actuarial report, carried out by Mercer Consulting, on the social insurance fund. Let me raise it a second time. Do I understand from the Taoiseach's reply that the €300 pension will be introduced in five years' time? He...

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I want the Taoiseach to do it now.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I did not ask that question either.

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not asking that. Will the Government go ahead with the PRSI cut?

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taioseach promised a cut in PRSI. Will he go ahead with it?

Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: We are getting the answer all right.

EU Summits. (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he has had with other EU leaders regarding the Intergovernmental Conference to elaborate the reform treaty based on the mandate given to it by the last Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19883/07]

EU Summits. (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting with President Sarkozy of France on 21 September 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20596/07]

EU Summits. (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the October 2007 EU summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22344/07]

EU Summits. (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of the informal meeting of EU leaders-session of the Intergovernmental Conference held in Lisbon on 18 and 19 October 2007. [24770/07]

EU Summits. (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he had with other EU leaders on the margins of the informal meeting of EU leaders-session of the Intergovernmental Conference held in Lisbon on 18 and 19 October 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24771/07]

EU Summits. (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to pursue a little further the ending of the common travel area and the proposed requirement from 2009 onwards to produce a passport when entering Britain. As I understand it, if I take a ferry from my constituency in Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead, I will have to produce a passport in Holyhead, but if I drive up to Larne and take a ferry from there to Stranraer, I will not have to...

EU Summits. (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate and understand what the Taoiseach said about carriers having introduced new requirements regarding identification and so on in recent years, but this change in our relationship with our neighbouring island is dramatic as it will impact on the ordinary citizen. It is probably far more dramatic than many of the formal, diplomatic, institutional, intergovernmental things that have...

EU Summits. (24 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand that there may be a good case for this, particularly in the context of both States being outside of Schengen. Is the logic of that not the creation of an external border around both islands and the exercise of those controls on people originating from places outside the two islands? Why does it require that people from the Republic of Ireland will have to produce passports on...