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Task Force on Active Citizenship. (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The finding of the report that caught my eye was that just 54% of those who responded said they feel they can influence decisions to alter their local area. The recommendation of the task force was that an effort should be made to try to increase this number to 65% by 2010, which would be a desirable achievement. I question whether the problem is not so much the willingness of people to...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach speaks about this like a man heading the Government for the past ten weeks and not the past ten years. What happened in Portlaoise is the worst in a recent series of misdiagnoses including a woman in Galway who was misdiagnosed twice, the case of Rebecca O'Malley in Cork and the cases in Barringtons Hospital about which we were supposed to have had an inquiry but which has not...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: That it was discovered.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: How was the Minister informed on 20 August?

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: She was told on 29 August.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: During recent days and during the course of exchanges here today we have been asked to accept that this will improve when centres of excellence are established and that they are the answer to all of this. The problem I have with this and the Government's problem of credibility is that centres of excellence were recommended seven years ago in the O'Higgins report and it still has not...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: On 19 October, the High Court granted the first declaration of incompatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights to Ms Lydia Foy, whom the court found had been treated by the State in a way which was incompatible with the convention. Under the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003, the Taoiseach is required to lay before the House, within 21 days of such an order being...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to know——

Order of Business (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to draw the Ceann Comhairle's attention to the fact that there is a legal requirement to have this laid before the House within 21 days and, as I said already, the order was granted on 19 October. I am simply asking when it will appear before the House.

Written Answers — EU Regulations: EU Regulations (6 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her views on removing the deadline imposed on farmers for slurry spreading in view of the fact that the changing climate is having a detrimental effect on this practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27078/07]

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Today, we learned that the equipment in Portlaoise hospital is 15 years old. A leading radiologist said on radio this morning that the radiology equipment in half of this country's hospitals is also 15 years old. How many Ministers are driving around in 15 year-old cars and how many Departments rely on 15 year-old computer equipment? If that is not good enough for the Government, why is it...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: He went on to say that the plan to build private hospitals has more to do with suiting the construction industry than suiting the needs of the patient. He said the Minister and the HSE are in cloud cuckoo land if they believe that patients are not suffering as a result of the Government's health policies. He also said the Minister for Health and Children would have resigned or been sacked...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Hold on one second, these are people who cure people. These are people who do their job responsibly and if this Government was doing as good a job in managing and running the health service as these people are in curing their patients, we would not have the problems in the health service that we have today.

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: They say that what is happening in the health service is the Taoiseach's responsibility and the Government's responsibility. I have one question for the Taoiseach and ask him not to answer me but to answer them. Does he accept responsibility for what is happening in the health service?

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a scandalous, cowardly reply which does not answer the question. The Taoiseach spent a week, as did the people representing him, including the HSE, casting blame around everywhere else, including the people marching on the streets. Now it is the 120,000 people working in the health service and by side-of-the-mouth implication, it is certain consultants or medical professionals who...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Those people are entitled to a little better from the Taoiseach, for his management, not the individual staff and consultants who are working in the health service, his responsibility and accountability for the way he spends taxpayers' money on the health service because we are not getting value for the money that is being spent on it. It is a mess and it is time that something was done by...

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach his proposals for Dáil reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20166/07]

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach should be commended for going around the corridors at night turning off all the televisions.

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: It is great to see the Green Party is having such a profound impact at the heart of government. However, it does not appear to be having much impact on Dáil reform. Its general election manifesto proposed that the Dáil should sit for 45 weeks per year, including Monday afternoons and on Fridays up to lunchtime, from 9.30 a.m. to 7 p.m., a total of 180 days in the year. The published...

Written Answers — Gangland Killings: Gangland Killings (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the matters discussed at his meeting on 31 October 2007 with the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Noel Conroy, regarding serious crime; if conclusions were reached at the meeting; if new specific measures to combat serious crime were agreed at the meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27126/07]