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Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If I had been given answers to my questions the first time I put them, I would not have to ask them three times. Is there a secret agreement codicil of some kind to the programme of Government which provides for a rotation of the Green Party Ministers? If so, why did the Taoiseach not inform the House of it when he was introducing the programme for Government and forming his Government?...

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am all for rotation.

Written Answers — Primary Care Services: Primary Care Services (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the consideration that has been given to the proposals from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children regarding primary care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10437/10]

Written Answers — Public Sector Reform: Public Sector Reform (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the main findings of the assessment undertaken under the Organisational Review Programme; the steps she plans to take arising from these findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10045/10]

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Time should be provided today for the Minister of State with responsibility for children to come to the House and report to it on this matter. We need to address a number of issues. As Deputy Kenny stated, we have been told that 20 children died while in State care over the past decade and that there are a number of HSE reports relating to those deaths. We should hear a full statement on...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have no intention of making a political issue out of this; it is far too serious and sensitive for that. The request that Deputies Kenny, Ó Caoláin and I have made is that time be made available in the House for the Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, to tell us the state of play in regard to this report. As Deputy Kenny said, we need to know when...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Therefore, we must have a reasoned discussion in the House about what happened, get all the information, see what the situation is and take it from there. I appeal to the Government to recognise that it is not a good idea to let today pass without this being discussed in the Chamber, with the Minister of State saying what he has to say and providing us with an explanation and with whatever...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The offer of having this dealt with on Tuesday is not satisfactory. I accept entirely that there may well be matters in these reports of a sensitive and private nature and which cannot be discussed in public. However, in this instance, as I understand it, it was the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, who identified the family publicly, not anybody on the Opposition benches. I do not...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise a couple of issues with the Minister for Transport.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank Deputy Brady.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I can always rely on Deputy Brady to back me against the Minister for Transport and I thank him. Constituency is everything. Yesterday, I raised the serious dispute that had arisen at Green Isle Foods, Naas, and I was glad to learn that a resolution of the dispute has been arrived at this morning. I wish to pay tribute to the efforts of two Members of this House who worked very hard to...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The House should express thanks to them. It was a highly sensitive situation and they worked very hard over a period to bring it to a resolution and I am glad this has happened. What arrangements will be made regarding a debate in the House on the national pensions framework and the issues arising therefrom? As for the composition of the Government, this is now getting to the point of...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

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Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: While we are on the subject of the Minister - for the time being - for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----this week he replied to a parliamentary question in which he told Members that the Government had established a task force to wind up the electronic voting episode.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise two matters. First, when will this task force report?

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Second, it always has troubled me that the Minister, Deputy Martin Cullen, took all the blame for electronic voting as the Minister for Transport, who is taking the Order of Business, was the man who thought up the idea.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will he now take up the opportunity to take full credit and responsibility for the electronic voting episode-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and let poor Minister Cullen off the hook at last?

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have not received a reply to my question.