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Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He certainly cannot be called the first mate after his less than full support last week.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was away and he did not have a translator for it so he can smile. What worries me about the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Kenny is that he seems to be somewhat in denial and seems to be taking the position on the economy that something will turn up. As I understand, the position is that in the first two months of this year, the State took in almost €700 million less in tax than...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We know and understand that tax revenues are dropping. We expect Government to manage this and have a strategy to deal with it. What assurance can the Taoiseach give the House that as this is managed — he used the term "managed" on a number of occasions in his reply to Deputy Kenny — it will not be those who are least able to bear the burden who are asked to take the pain here? We...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Government were as good at managing the health service and at resourcing it as it is at providing tax breaks for those who want to invest in it, we would not have as many people presenting with and dying from cancer in the first place. The Taoiseach does not need to remind us of how close he is to the building industry — he is too close. Regarding the fall in employment in...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Of course, but what is the Government going to do with them?

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [1136/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to mark the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in March 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1137/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his meeting with the Northern Ireland First Minister, Dr. Ian Paisley, on 1 February 2008. [4114/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if the date and agenda for the next meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council has been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4115/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if the date and agenda for the next meeting of the British-Irish Council has been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4116/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Gordon Brown, in Manchester on 9 February 2008. [4404/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of the North-South Ministerial Council on 7 February 2008. [4405/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I join with the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in marking the retirement of Dr. Paisley as leader of his party and First Minister. I wish him well in his retirement and pay tribute to the role he played at the end of his career in restoring political institutions to Northern Ireland and in bringing political stability to the North. However, I cannot help reflecting on the fact that many of...

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am a little surprised the Taoiseach did not raise Sellafield directly with Prime Minister Brown. There has been a practice going back over a very long period that when the Taoiseach meets the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the issue is raised. I am surprised a Government in which the Green Party is participating would not raise the matter. I am also surprised at the extent to which...

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have a brief question for the Taoiseach since the Ceann Comhairle told us Opposition leaders cannot ask questions of each other. What does the Taoiseach understand Deputy Ó Caoláin to mean what he says the Provisional IRA is acting as a bulwark against dissident republicans? Does he know what that means and does he agree with that assessment?

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: "Discourage" is a lovely word.

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand two of the three reports on breast cancer services in the midlands due to be published today have been made available on the Department of Health and Children's website. Will the Taoiseach assure the House that the third report, which was compiled by Dr. Ann O'Doherty and which deals with the carrying out of mammograms in Portlaoise, will also be published today? Does he intend...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am raising again a question I put to the Taoiseach yesterday. The Taoiseach is usually a great master of detail. However, when I put this question to him on two occasions yesterday, he did not refer to these e-mails in either reply. The Taoiseach may have had an opportunity to check the position since yesterday. What is the position as regards this attempt to cover up the number of...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for informing me that the HSE is holding a press conference at 2.30 p.m. in respect of the other two reports. Will he provide an assurance that copies of the two reports to be published by the HSE will at least be made available to Opposition health spokespersons before they are released to the press?

Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to agreement on the consultants' contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9325/08]