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Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Did they tell the Taoiseach?

Order of Business (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Last Thursday, in the Taoiseach's absence, I raised the nursing homes Bill with the Tánaiste. I understood from his reply that the Bill would be published this Thursday and would be first taken in the Seanad and then completed in the Dáil prior to Christmas. I made it clear to the Tánaiste that the arrangement would not be acceptable to the Labour Party because complex and sensitive...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the degree of progress for the completion of his Department's technical review of the social welfare code to examine its compatibility with the Equal Status Act 2000; the cost of the project to date; the reason this review is being handled in part by parties outside his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of recipients of rent allowance by the duration of the claim with a breakdown for those under 12 months, above 12 months and at six monthly intervals above that. [32203/07]

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise a different law enforcement issue. Last Wednesday, my Labour Party colleague, Deputy Broughan, asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for the numbers of warrants which have been issued by the courts for the arrest of persons throughout the country. The reply he received is amazing. According to the reply Deputy Broughan received there are 111,453 warrants...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I note the Taoiseach finds it difficult to believe the figures, for which I do not blame him. However, the figures on which I rely were provided in response to a parliamentary question. That reply from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform stated: "The number of bench warrants, penal warrants and committal warrants which were recorded on the PULSE system as being on hand on 25...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a separate issue.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not the bench warrants; it is the penal warrants.

Freedom of Information. (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information applications received by his Department in the first ten months of 2007; the way these figures compare with each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29413/07]

Freedom of Information. (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Going back over the figures on the number of freedom of information applications made to the Department of the Taoiseach, there is a marked difference in the numbers that were made subsequent to 2003. In 2002, 146 such applications were made, while the figure for 2003 was 142. In 2004, the figure dropped dramatically to 45. There were 54 last year and the Taoiseach says the figure for 2007...

Freedom of Information. (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach agree that the fee should at least be refunded where the appeal is successful? This is reasonable. I cannot understand why the fee should be retained if the appeal is successful.

Commemorative Events. (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the way the money allocated by his Department for commemoration initiatives during 2008 will be allocated; if he is considering allocating any of this money for a national commemoration of the Famine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29414/07]

Commemorative Events. (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I welcome what the Taoiseach said about the plans to commemorate the Great Famine. That is appropriate and the way he proposes to go about it is the right way. Does he anticipate that preparations will be sufficiently advanced to have a commemoration of the Great Famine in 2008? In respect of the commemoration of the flight of the earls, it is quite interesting to hear the Taoiseach's...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach indicated he would agree to a debate in the House on the MacEntee report on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. When will that take place? In reply to a question I posed earlier, the Taoiseach referred to the Fines Bill. What is the current position vis-À-vis that legislation? Will the Taoiseach also indicate when the promised domestic partnership Bill is due to be published?

Irish Language. (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the new initiatives regarding the Gaeltacht and the Irish language he intends putting in place in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32616/07]

Budget Statement 2008 (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: It is 55,000.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Tobacco Products) (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party does not have any objection in principle to this resolution. If I thought it would get Deputy Stagg off the habit, I would propose an amendment to double the increase.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Tobacco Products) (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not quite convinced these increases in excise duties on cigarettes result in a reduction in cigarette smoking. I know they raise some very healthy revenues for the State, and this measure will raise an additional €63 million, but where is the evidence that they actually cause people to give up the fags? We hear this every year and it is very difficult to argue against the case for an...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Tobacco Products) (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Does that refer to the number of cigarettes?

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Tobacco Products) (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Did the Taoiseach say something about grow your own?