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Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (22 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 87: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if additional funds other than those collected by the Private Residential Tenancies Board are allocated by his Department to support local authorities in performing their functions in relation to inspections under the Housing Acts. [14449/08]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (22 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 2 April 2008, if a licence has been issued; if so, the date on which it issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15009/08]

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am conscious that it falls to me to ask the last question the Taoiseach will reply to as Taoiseach in this House.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have been thinking of something easy that I could ask him this morning. I have settled on a matter he has been asked on before on 25 April 2007, almost 12 months to the day. He got quite upset then, apologising to the people of Meath because they would not be able to vote electronically in the upcoming general election. Instead, they would have to use the peann luaidhe.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: After the events of last Sunday in Parnell Park——

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: After last Sunday's events, I would not expect the Taoiseach to be apologising to Meath people this morning.

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I heard him yesterday encouraging his successor to get a new Government jet. As he is tidying up his affairs, will he decide what should be done with the electronic voting machines?

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: A couple of thousand clapped-out voting machines that cannot and will not be used is a terrible legacy for the Taoiseach to leave the people. In the couple of working days he has left in office, will he take out the peann luaidhe and draw a line under the electronic voting machines?

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have to remind the Taoiseach that on the day I was elected leader of my party he also said he saw out many of my predecessors. I think the peann luaidhe could serve me well for a long time to come yet. There is a serious point to this. These machines cost €60 million——

Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——which I am sure the Taoiseach will acknowledge could have been better spent. It is two years since the Commission on Electronic Voting reported. It not only confirmed what those of us who had been critical of the particular system had said for a long time but added to it. None of the Taoiseach's Ministers want to touch this. Every time the line Minister, Deputy Gormley, or his...

Tributes to the Taoiseach (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a little unusual to be paying official tributes of this kind to a retiring Taoiseach two weeks before the date of his official retirement. Two weeks is an awfully long time in politics, particularly in the case of this man. Give him two weeks and one would never know what he might pull out of the hat. Your final day in this House as Taoiseach truly marks the end of a remarkable era...

Telecommunications Services. (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the commencement of the national broadband scheme; the qualifying criteria and application process for areas currently not served by broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14640/08]

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share time with Deputy Kathleen Lynch.We are winding up a debate on a Labour Party motion on the issue of care for people with acquired brain injuries. These are the thousands every year who suffer a stroke, an accident or who survive a car crash. These are the thousands who form part of the 700,000 people in Ireland living with a neurological condition, an average of one in every...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (23 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recent publication of figures from the Central Statistics Office, Information Society and Telecommunications 2007, that found that 54% of households here had a broadband connection compared to an EU27 average of 77%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14641/08]

Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise three matters. As regards the issue raised by Deputy Bruton concerning child protection and the age of consent, an Oireachtas committee made a total of 61 recommendations on this area some time ago, none of which appears to have been implemented. Will the Tánaiste say what plans the Government has to implement those recommendations while the Joint Committee on the...

Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: On the appointment of a Comptroller and Auditor General, will the Tánaiste clarify what that means? Do I understand from him that the post is not being advertised? When he talks about interviews taking place, does this mean that a process of selection is already under way for——

Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a constitutional appointment.

Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not an internal appointment. It requires to be brought before the House, which must approve a name and the appointment is made by the President. It is a very important position. We have seen the work of the Committee of Public Accounts over the years and the reports on the waste of public expenditure. This is an important and sensitive position. I understand the Tánaiste to be...

Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste has announced expressions of interest were sought. Where were these sought, and how?

Order of Business (24 Apr 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This matter will come before the House some time before 14 May. Unless we get some clarity on what is going on here, the consensual support which is normal for this type of appointment will not be forthcoming from my party.