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Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (7 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date with regard to the Garda investigation into the murder of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan on 20 October 2007; if the Gardaí have evidence to indicate paramilitary involvement in the murder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27367/07]

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (8 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason smokers' chewing gum and other treatments which assist people to give up smoking are not listed for the drugs refunds scheme; if she has plans to have them so listed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27824/07]

Social Partnership. (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received a letter from the general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions seeking significant increases in mortgage interest relief to offset the continuing high level of inflation; his response to the letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19887/07]

Social Partnership. (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting with the social partners under the auspices of Towards 2016 is due to be held; if an agenda has been agreed for the next meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23450/07]

Social Partnership. (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Yesterday morning and again this morning, 60,000 Dublin commuters could not get a bus to work. If this dispute in Dublin Bus escalates, more people will be unable to get a bus to work. On top of that there are reports that there may be strikes in Aer Lingus. The Taoiseach is responding to questions on social partnership, which is supposed to resolve those disputes and ensure we do not have...

Social Partnership. (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has referred a couple of times to comparisons with the private sector to justify the pay increase which he has given himself. These private sector comparisons are understandable when one is considering, for example, the salaries of chief executives of State companies, which may be comparable to private sector wages. Similarly, salaries among the Judiciary may be compared with...

Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: In recent weeks there has been much public debate about the quality and adequacy of cancer care services. It is fair to say that public confidence in these services is low. The solution proposed by almost everybody is the notion of centres of excellence. It is the strategy being put forward by the Government and the HSE, and all political parties as well as most medical professionals have...

Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has described how we will have fewer centres providing cancer services. He has not said how these remaining eight or nine centres will be better. That is what the public wants to know about. For the past week or more we have been speaking about centres of excellence, and the expectation is that these will be better facilities than we have currently. How will they be better?...

Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform stated today that he intends to press ahead with the Defamation Bill to reform libel law but that he will park the Privacy Bill, originally introduced in tandem with the Defamation Bill and to go hand in hand with it. Will the Taoiseach clarify the Government's intention on the proposed Privacy Bill and, if the Government is not proceeding...

Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: When will we know?

Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: To do what?

Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The numbers are available already. Why would it take six months?

Order of Business (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: That is cold comfort.

Written Answers — Second Level Education: Second Level Education (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the recent study undertaken by the ESRI on behalf of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment which states that 25% of third year secondary students take up grinds; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that students derive no advantage from such systems; her views on whether...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (13 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to her reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 53, 54 and 80 of 2 October 2007, if the 17% increase in funding for the service provided in the 2007 Estimates allowed some further expansion in the number of psychologists in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28466/07]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation in the meeting of the British-Irish Council in Belfast on 16 July 2007. [19876/07]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on meetings he has had with other participants on the margins of the British-Irish Council meeting in Belfast on 16 July 2007. [19877/07]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation in the meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council in Armagh on 17 July 2007. [19878/07]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the discussions that have taken place with the social partners arising from the conclusions of the North-South Ministerial Council in Armagh on 17 July 2007 regarding the establishment of the North-South consultative forum, first proposed in the Belfast Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19879/07]

Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Nov 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he, his Department or anyone acting on behalf of his Department made representations to the Northern Ireland Minister for Social Development, Ms. Margaret Ritchie MLA, in connection with her decision to withhold certain funding under the conflict transformation initiative as a result of the refusal of the UDA to begin decommissioning its weapons; the...