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Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We were right.

Written Answers — Health Service Quality Standards: Health Service Quality Standards (4 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when private health care providers will be subject to regulation and quality evaluation by the Health Information and Quality Authority; her views on the provision of cancer services by private providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39282/09]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (4 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the categories of staff that will administer the H1N1 vaccine to the general population; if they will be replaced in their regular role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39281/09]

Written Answers — Port Development: Port Development (5 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has been briefed on the recent postponement of the An Bord Pleanála hearing into plans by the Dublin Port Company to infill 52 acres in Dublin Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39549/09]

Official Engagements. (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting on 7 July 2009 with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon. [30600/09]

Official Engagements. (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach his plans for official trips abroad up to end of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30664/09]

Official Engagements. (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation at the UN Summit on Climate Change. [33524/09]

Official Engagements. (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: During the Taoiseach's meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations, did the Secretary General raise with him what Dóchas has called the "enormous and disproportionate" cuts in Ireland's ODA? Was there any discussion about Ireland's commitment to ODA? Was there any discussion as to how Ireland might now reach the UN target of 0.7% of GDP? I note that one of the forthcoming...

Official Engagements. (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Two aspects of the Taoiseach's reply surprise me. First, it is surprising that the Secretary General of the United Nations should praise Ireland at a time when we are reducing our overseas development aid allocation. Was there any discussion of how we now propose to reach our target of 0.7% of GDP and did the Taoiseach indicate to the Secretary General any timeframe in that regard? Second,...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no question that this is all about choices. I must contrast the signal the Taoiseach is sending to the parents who are worried about what the Minister for Social and Family Affairs said last night - which is, in essence, that child benefit will now be targeted in the forthcoming budget - with the answer given by the Minister for Finance last week to Deputy Burton when she put to him...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That was an answer to a question about house repossessions I asked the Taoiseach last week. I asked whether the Government will do anything to close a tax loophole, which will cost the taxpayer approximately €80 million on top of the €300 million we are stuck with for the non-recourse element of the loans taken out by these people. The issue is simple. Ten people who belong to the...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a sweetheart deal with the banks.

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Following the budget on 9 December, when will the social welfare Bill be published and when will it come before the House?

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The arrangement for the budget is already very tight. It will be presented on 9 December, leaving only one sitting day in that week and one further week before the House rises for the Christmas. Given the likely controversial nature of the social welfare Bill's contents, is it the Government's intention to dispose of the budget and also enact the social welfare Bill before Christmas? It...

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Are they?

Order of Business (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Perhaps Deputy Gormley would raise it on the Adjournment

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has made a decision on the recommendation contained in the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes Report that the garda station network should be reduced by about half which would result in the closure of around 350 garda stations; if his attention has been drawn to the concern created in...

Written Answers — Commissions of Investigation: Commissions of Investigation (10 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to be in a position to publish the Report of the Commission of Investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40140/09]

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise an issue which cannot wait until 9 December. A Christmas bonus has been paid to pensioners and others every year since 1980. In the emergency budget of last April, the Government announced that it would abolish the Christmas bonus and that this year, for the first time in almost 30 years, pensioners and others would not receive the relatively small payment which helps them...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a very mean reply from the Taoiseach. This payment has been made to pensioners every year for 30 years, even in some of the country's most difficult economic years. It is a measure of the mess Fianna Fáil has made of our economy and public finances that for the first time in 30 years pensioners will not get the small bonus which has been paid to them in years past. It adds insult...