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Written Answers — Advocacy Service: Advocacy Service (2 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is satisfied with the pace of delivery of the personal advocacy service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12201/08]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (2 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 485: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received an application for a licence for a bus service (detailed supplied); the consideration given to the application; if he will comment on reports that he has ordered the cessation of the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12278/08]

Order of Business (3 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise three matters. The first one relates to the Exchequer figures. I support Deputy Kenny's call for a debate in the House on those figures and on the changing position of the public finances. The Tánaiste's reply to Deputy Kenny underscores the need for a debate because the Labour Party would not accept that the changing economic and public finance position is entirely due to...

Order of Business (3 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is always advisable to be one step ahead of the Chair. Are there any plans to introduce Supplementary Estimates arising from the changes that are occurring? The second matter I wish to raise concerns the civil unions Bill, on which a report is being prepared by the Government. I recall that when the Labour Party's Civil Unions Bill was before the House it was promised that the heads of...

Order of Business (3 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask the Tánaiste to respond to the other points I raised. I also offer him the counsel that whatever promises he gives in the coming weeks, it would not be advisable to promise changes in constituency boundaries to any of his colleagues.

Order of Business (3 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask the Tánaiste, wherever he goes looking for support, not to look behind me.

Order of Business (3 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When will we see the Bill?

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (3 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in his work with State agencies to try to reduce the impact of the loss of 104 jobs (details supplied). [12490/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Services: Departmental Services (3 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he envisages cutbacks in services provided by or through his Department in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12489/08]

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the Nally report on the reorganisation of the Chief State Solicitors office; if all aspects of the report have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6173/08]

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Last August when the DPP published his annual report, he stated that his office was struggling to provide advice to the Government on major legal issues, including proposed legislation, due to staff shortages. He raised the necessity of a fully resourced prosecution policy unit to cope with the increase in prosecution work that would be required. Will the filling of the vacancies described...

Chief State Solicitor's Office. (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Taoiseach received reports, either directly from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions or through the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, that prosecutions are being delayed as a result of staff shortages in the former?

Strategic Management Initiative. (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach mentioned in his first reply to Deputy Kenny that the quality customer service, QCS, research group has been carrying out some survey work on customer satisfaction and public attitudes towards the Civil Service and public service. Will the Taoiseach indicate to the House what kind of conclusions have been reached in this research work, whether there are any headline results...

Strategic Management Initiative. (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It sounds like what Ministers are doing.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: In the month of March, unemployment rose in the State by 12,000, the highest monthly increase ever recorded. It is not entirely due to construction because the numbers are equal for men and women. It is not a blip because in the first quarter of this year, we have seen the highest rise in unemployment in a quarter for over 30 years. The previous high was in 1975, in the middle of the oil...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That reply is delusory.

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The message the Taoiseach is giving the House in response to what we all know are changed and changing economic circumstances — that the Government will continue to do what it has been doing — is depressing. The idea that the situation is due to international circumstances and has nothing to do with us domestically is wrong. To paraphrase our good friend, the former American President,...

Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——such as home help and other areas that are under the radar and do not get the type of attention they would normally receive. To make a practical suggestion, if the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance or another Minister is considering cuts in areas of public expenditure, he or she should concentrate on cutting waste rather than essential services.

Order of Business (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to raise two matters with the Taoiseach. First, I understand that Mr. John Purcell, who has been the Comptroller and Auditor General since 1994, is due to retire on 14 May. This is a constitutional office and I understand the method of appointment is that the new Comptroller and Auditor General is nominated by the Dáil for appointment by the President. What process is being put in...

Order of Business (8 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to raise the promise made by the Minister, Deputy Gormley, at the Irish Planning Institute conference last week, where he told us that there will be new legislation to tap into the windfall gains being made by landowners and property developers.