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Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is urgent.

Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: He cannot do that.

Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is the Taoiseach's idea.

Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: When is it intended to publish the revised programme for Government? It is an essential document for the House to know what it is the Government has agreed to do. Clearly, the existing programme for Government is a dead letter and it is very difficult to raise issues or questions on a programme for Government that no longer applies. Can the Taoiseach give some indication to the House as to...

Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is.

Order of Business (19 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking the Taoiseach if that is the Government's intention, because the calendar that has been circulated to us has 2 July on it. Is it the Government's intention the House will rise as early as 2 July this year? That is quite astonishing, given all that we have to do.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (19 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will make a statement on the revised Estimate for her Department in respect of 2009. [19826/09]

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (19 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the responsibilities of each Minister of State at her Department, following the recent changes; the powers which have been formally delegated to each Minister of State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19825/09]

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach says the Government is getting out of the PPP arrangement for the Thornton Hall project because of concerns about value for money. These concerns about value for money on this project are coming very late. I suggest the Taoiseach is now desperately playing catch-up on the value for money issue. Just three weeks ago, on 22 April, my colleagues, Deputies Pat Rabbitte and Mary...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, and where is Thornton Hall now? We already know that the cost to date is approximately €41 million, between the cost of the site, the cost of buying up the extra land for the road, and the cost of the professional fees and the siteworks-----

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----including landscaping of the site. In addition to that, we have to add in the €26 million that was paid in 2007 for the two acre former cash and carry site adjoining Mountjoy Prison in anticipation that Mountjoy would be closing down and moving out to Thornton Hall and that the Mountjoy site would be redeveloped. The Taoiseach should remember that purchase because, as Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach made a couple of references to the prudence of the financial arrangements for Thornton Hall and he explained how it was purchased from the sale of the land in Shanganagh. I know the land in Shanganagh, it is in my constituency. There was a prison there for juvenile boys and the Government closed it down although it is not the kind of facility that deserved to be closed down,...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform will come forward with some kind of proposal on it. Is the Government going ahead with a prison on the same scale as was originally intended? Does the Government intend to use substantially the same design? Is it intended to proceed with that project by PPP with another bidder or is it intended to proceed by way of direct provision? What...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It got it from the local authority.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: No. I am making the point that the Prison Service got the money from the local authority.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: How big is it?

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: So, the Taoiseach does not know what will be built, does not know how it will be built or does not know when it will be built.

Ireland-America Economic Advisory Board. (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has told us about the efforts being made at official level to liaise with US legislators and the US Administration in regard to the taxation issue in the US, which I welcome. To that end, what contacts are being made at Government level, in particular in the context of the legislation which will be considered on Capitol Hill? In that context, would the Taoiseach consider it...

Departmental Staff. (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the special political advisers or other non-established civil servants appointed to positions within his Department since his election as Taoiseach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16605/09]

Departmental Staff. (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Do the terms of the Government decision on the embargo on the recruitment of staff and the renewal of staff apply to the political staff employed by the Taoiseach and other Ministers? Were requests made by his Department to the Minister for Finance to sanction the filling of vacancies in his political staff since the Government circular issued on 27 March? In reply to previous questions on...