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Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Health and Children should take the opportunity of coming into the House to set out the facts.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It has been brought to my attention that Senator Corrigan has been out on the plinth having her photograph taken. Does it follow therefore that the Government soon will move the writ for the Dublin South by-election?

Written Answers — Budgetary Projections: Budgetary Projections (6 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the October 2008 Exchequer returns; the updated tax revenue profiles for November and December 2008 and for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38819/08]

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (6 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the advice of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland on the appropriate scope of the credit institutions financial support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38840/08]

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the plans he has to make changes to the operation of the media monitoring unit within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30106/08]

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach said the Government intended to invite tenders for a press cuttings service. If the Government succeeds in attracting a successful tender for such a service, will that mean the services of the communication unit in his Department will then be dispensed with or will we end up with in a situation where we have the communications unit in his Department, a press office in every...

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand the work of and need for a Department press office which, I accept entirely, must issue statements on behalf of the Department and the Minister and communicate to the press and public what a Department is doing. What I am questioning is whether in the modern age this idea of a media-monitoring service still has any relevance or value or whether it is just a waste of money. There...

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: ——and if anything has been said by somebody who telephoned Mr. Joe Duffy's radio programme to which the Minister needs to reply? This is a nonsensical operation. The Taoiseach is now stating that in addition to the communications unit he will spend more public money on a contracted service to work on the media monitoring operation. Given that the Taoiseach acknowledges there is now a...

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes.

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to know what it is for.

Departmental Expenditure. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is daft. It is a waste of money.

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach when the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnership last met; when the next meeting is due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29624/08]

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social inclusion last met; and when the next meeting is due [29625/08]

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: When did the sub-committee on social inclusion, integration and children last meet?

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Cabinet sub-committee on social inclusion, children and integration last met in February. This is a year in which the Government has scrapped child benefit for children over 18 and an immunisation scheme for 12 year old girls, has increased class sizes, has scrapped the book grant for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and capped the number of English language teachers for...

Interdepartmental Committees. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What is the purpose of the sub-committee on social inclusion, children and integration? Which Minister is responsible for convening it? This shows more clearly than anything the level of priority and consideration that this Government gives to the concepts of social inclusion, protection of children and the integration problems in our schools and the wider society. The specific Cabinet...

Combat Poverty Agency. (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way she will safeguard the future independence of the Combat Poverty Agency. [39504/08]

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I join the Taoiseach and the leader of Fine Gael in offering my sympathy and that of the Labour Party to the family, friends and sporting colleagues of Shane Geoghegan. His death was shocking and tragic and the manner in which it was carried out was disgusting. It would be tragic if it was a once-off but, unfortunately, it is not. Shane Geoghegan's murder is one of a series of murders that...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I accept entirely that the Garda Síochána is doing its best and it has the full support of the Labour Party. I acknowledge that it has had some successes and the Taoiseach identified some of them. This is not a uniquely Limerick problem.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Many of these murders have been in other parts of the country. What can be done to increase the level of convictions being achieved? One out of eight convictions for the gun murders we have seen over the past decade is not satisfactory or acceptable. If the perpetrators of this crime can be effectively identified in newspapers this morning why can they not be lifted and put away? With...