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Written Answers — Water Quality: Water Quality (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 93: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he has taken to improve the drinking water infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10147/09]

Written Answers — Nuclear Plants: Nuclear Plants (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 95: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he has taken to bring about the closure of the nuclear waste facility at Sellafield, England; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10139/09]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (11 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person holding a valid green card must apply and pay for a re-entry visa each time they leave the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10372/09]

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not want to divide the House over the guillotine on this Bill, but the Labour Party Members are anxious that the House debate amendment No. 3 in the names of Deputies Ciarán Lynch and Joanna Tuffy. The purpose of the amendment is to give effect to the promises made by the Taoiseach at the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who is...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I object to the proposed recess. The proposal is that the Dáil will not meet again until 24 March, which is in 12 days time. St. Patrick's Day comprises one day, not 12. There is no justification for putting the Dáil into recess for 12 days. I am aware that historically it was difficult to arrange Government business during that week because virtually the entire Cabinet and every...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am setting out my reasons for objecting to the recess. Business remains to be done. Only four items of legislation have been enacted thus far this year. Of the 18 Bills promised by the Government in this session, only one has been produced.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, who is in the Chamber, promised five Bills last session but none was produced. Six Bills have been on the Government legislative programme since 2003. With the limited resources available to us, the Labour Party has published 16 Private Members' Bills whereas the Government, despite all the State resources on which it can draw, cannot...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is for sure.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Last night the Government voted down, by a margin of three votes, a Labour Party motion setting out eight specific proposals for dealing with the problems of people who are currently unemployed, with particular emphasis on the need for education and training services to be enhanced. When the Government met the social partners in January, it promised that a jobs and skills summit would be...

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This question is in order because I also want the Tánaiste to tell us in what way the House will be involved in the jobs and skills summit she has promised for this month.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Now that the House has decided that it will only sit from 24 March, which leaves only one sitting week for the remainder of this month, I want to know when the summit will be held. Such a summit is obviously important, but when will it be convened? How will the House be involved?

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: What opportunity will the House have to debate it?

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am perfectly in order to ask how the House will debate the jobs and skills summit.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government says it will be in March, yet we only have one sitting week left this month. They promised it to the social partners.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: They promised it to the social partners.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It was agreed.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the Tánaiste not going to do the summit?

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste has line responsibility for this area.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: A specific promise was made that a jobs and skills summit would be convened. The idea was that all the great minds dealing with employment and retraining would be assembled by the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is a naval officer himself.