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Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his most recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [1277/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the Northern Ireland First Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1278/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the contacts he has had with the Acting First Minister in Northern Ireland since her appointment on 11 January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1467/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his recent contacts with the British Prime Minister regarding the situation in Northern Ireland; and if he has plans for a meeting with the Prime Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1468/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting in London on 14 January 2010 with the British Prime Minister. [1584/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party supports the efforts of the Government, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Foreign Affairs in trying to bring about a resolution to the difficulties that have arisen in Northern Ireland with regard to the devolution of policing and justice issues. I also acknowledge the efforts and significant contributions made by both Governments as well as the US Administration to matters...

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I very much welcome the Taoiseach's belief that progress is being and will be made. We all wish for that to be the case. It is perhaps not exceptional that there should be some expression of a level of irritation at the length of time the discussions are taking to reach a conclusion on something that was already agreed. Devolution was already agreed in the St. Andrews Agreement and we are...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about two matters. First, I thank the Taoiseach for writing to me arising from a question I asked him on 20 January 2010, regarding the application of the pay cuts. The Ceann Comhairle will recall I asked the Taoiseach about a circular which was issued by the HSE to the various agencies under its remit and in which the HSE was effectively directing the various...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a promise of a different kind for the unfortunate staff of all these agencies; it is a promise from the Government that their pay will be cut. I want the Taoiseach to admit this is what it amounts to. On my second question, yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach and he finally admitted that the number of senior public servants who were being treated more favourably than every other public...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is going up every day.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate the Taoiseach was busy with the parliamentary party meeting yesterday——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am puzzled about this issue of the costs——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When I asked this question before, the Taoiseach told the House that the Minister for Finance had drawn his attention to this. I cannot understand why the Taoiseach would not have asked the Minister for Finance what this decision was going to cost. Second, it would appear now from his answer that none of the reluctant seconders to the motion asked about the cost of it at yesterday's...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That would replace all the special needs classes——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Burton is entirely in order.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Do not be like that.

Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any recent interest from foreign investors in taking strategic or controlling stakes in any of the credit institutions covered by the banking guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5319/10]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected annual cost to the Exchequer of administering and funding, where the double insolvency criterion is met, the pensions insolvency payment scheme for the next three years; the way these costs are to be met to ensure that the scheme is cost neutral in accordance with the relevant legislation; the position regarding the initial success...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This is a proposal for dealing with the report from the Ombudsman regarding the complaint he received on the Lost at Sea scheme. The arrangements proposed by the Government on this issue are for statements to be made in the House today. That is fine as far as it goes, and I am glad the issue is to be discussed in the House. However, we have to decide how we will deal with this report. The...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I ask the Tánaiste to convey my thanks to the Taoiseach for writing to me today in response to the questions I asked him yesterday and the day before about the cost of the deal that was done with senior public servants to exempt them from the full effect of the pay cuts. In the letter, which was hand-delivered to me this morning, the Taoiseach informed me that approximately 655 public...