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Commissions of Investigation. (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes.

Commissions of Investigation. (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Last year the Garda Commissioner announced that he would set up a cold case unit within the Garda Síochána to investigate approximately 200 unsolved murders in the State. Are the Dublin and Monaghan bombings included in that investigation and does the Taoiseach consider that a useful way of reopening the investigation into those murders? Perhaps the advances that have been made in...

Departmental Staff. (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the procedures in place within his Department regarding the appointment of political staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34028/07]

Departmental Staff. (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When he answered similar questions last November the Taoiseach gave a list of the political staff and advisers employed in his Department. That does not include the staff employed in the constituency offices of the Taoiseach and respective Ministers of State. The total cost of the staff in the Taoiseach's Department is just over €1.5 million a year. We have some idea of the value of that...

Departmental Staff. (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is beginning to show as well. The Taoiseach could do with some more advice.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This week The Irish Times published figures it had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, which show that prisoners have tested positive for drugs in our prisons some 40,000 times over the past three years. That has occurred in a prison population of 3,200. We are told that in some prisons 75% of the tests carried out have proved positive. In 25,000 of the 40,000 cases we are...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The prison staff must have been up all night testing prisoners.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: No matter how one interprets the Taoiseach's answer, we are a long way from the drug-free prisons he promised us 11 years ago, promised for a second time six years ago and then promised us again last year. It seems the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and his Department are not on top of the situation. For example, my colleague, Deputy Tuffy, asked a question of the Minister...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach spoke about everything from nurses and consultant psychiatrists to airport security being introduced in prisons to address the problem. Will he consider allowing prison officers to arrest a person bringing drugs into prison? We have an absurd situation where a prison officer cannot arrest a visitor who is discovered bringing in drugs for a prisoner. Unless gardaí are...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Prison officers do not have the power of arrest. They cannot detain visitors bringing drugs into prisons.

Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There are some tidings of the missing Greens. Like the first cuckoo of the year, my constituency colleague, Deputy Cuffe, was spotted yesterday. According to a newspaper report, he addressed the issue of same sex marriage——

Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——and he had something interesting to say on the promised civil partnership Bill. He stated "At the end of the day, politically it boils down to six versus 78?". Is there a problem in Government with that Bill? The Government promised the heads of the Bill would be drafted before March. With two weeks to go, when are we likely to see them? Is Deputy Cuffe mistaken about his...

Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What about my questions?

Agency Workers: Motion (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is approximately 40,000 workers.

Agency Workers: Motion (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: They are frightened.

Written Answers — Court Cases: Court Cases (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Defence the estimated cost to the Defence Forces of payments and legal costs arising from a decision of the Circuit Court to dismiss a case taken by his Department against a person (details supplied) over alleged over-claiming of overseas expenses; if other similar cases being taken by his Department have been settled; the estimated costs involved in...

Written Answers — Compensation Payments: Compensation Payments (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount paid out to members of the Defence Forces for each of the past five years in respect of compensation claims for injury or illness; the amount paid in respect of legal costs associated with these claims in the same period; the steps being taken to reduce the level of such claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6330/08]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (19 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 506: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the serious structural deficiencies in a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if she has received a request for sanction for a programme of reconstruction for the school; if she will sanction the project in view of the conditions that pupils and staff have to endure; and if she will make a...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It emerged yesterday that a laptop containing personal information on over 170,000 people who have donated blood to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service was stolen on a street in New York earlier this month. I have concerns about the security of personal information supplied by people to Government bodies and State agencies. This is not the first time personal information of this nature has...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. One of our concerns must be to ensure continuing confidence in the blood bank so that people do not withhold donating blood as a result of this. It is ironic that the IBTS set out to seek help in securing the information only to end up with somebody walking around with it on a laptop on a street in New York where it ended up being stolen. There is...