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Legislative Programme. (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The questions are to try to establish from the Taoiseach the Government's priorities for legislation in 2010. In his reply the Taoiseach has referred us to the legislative list that was circulated at the beginning of the session. There are 85 pieces of legislation on that list but even with enormously improved productivity, we will not get 85 Bills enacted. The last time we had a...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I convey my good wishes to the Minister, Deputy Martin Cullen and, I am sure, in the course of time we will have the opportunity to do so more fully. His announcement yesterday that he intends to retire from the Government and the Dáil has again focussed attention on the question of jobs in Government. One reason the Government lacks the confidence of the public is that while thousands of...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is remarkable that every time a positive proposal is presented to the Taoiseach and the Government, designed to protect and create jobs, the Government always seems to have a reason why it cannot be done.

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Our legal advice is that it is constitutionally possible to do so. Professor David Gwynn Morgan, a professor of law at University College Cork, agrees. In a letter to a newspaper written last week, he stated, "It is reported that the Attorney General has advised that to extend this change to existing leases would be "retrospective" and therefore unconstitutional". He stated: "With respect,...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Therefore, there is legal opinion that says it is constitutionally possible to do it. The Government did not seem to have any constitutional difficulty when it decided to set up NAMA and it did not seem to have any constitutional difficulty when it decided to revise unilaterally the contracts of the employees of the State last year when it cut their pay, but it suddenly wraps itself in the...

Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Publish it.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Thar mo cheann féin agus thar ceann Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, is onóir dom é cúpla focal ómóis a rá faoi Thomás Mac Giolla - iar Theachta Dála, iar Ard-Mhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath agus iar uachtarán Páirtí na nOibrithe. Ba mhaith liom freisin comhbhrón a dhéanamh lena bhean chéile, May Mac Giolla, lena chlann agus lena chomhghleacaithe, atá bailithe linn inniu i nGailearaí na...

Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not objecting to it but I want to ask the Taoiseach a question arising from it. This proposed arrangement is to allow for a half hour debate on the broadcasting levy order. This is the levy Deputy McManus has raised on a number of occasions which is to apply essentially to the private broadcasting sector. Deputy McManus had tabled a motion to the effect that this order should be...

Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Taoiseach received any communication from the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Cullen, on his membership of the Government and of Dáil Éireann? If so, when will he make an announcement to the House in that regard? As there is now one vacancy in the membership of the Government, as a second one is to arise shortly and as a third is possible, when does the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In light of the very strong comments made by the Ombudsman today, will the Taoiseach reconsider this matter and find a means of dealing with it on an all-party basis rather than have it dealt with, as the Ceann Comhairle advocated, in Private Members' time, which would result in a divisive atmosphere?

Order of Business (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No action has been taken on foot of the report.

Land and Land Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases)(Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister did not try very hard to find it. It was moved last Thursday. This is nonsense.

Written Answers — Departmental Functions: Departmental Functions (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she is considering the restructuring of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11367/10]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her most recent contacts with an airline (details supplied) regarding the possible location of up to 300 aircraft maintenance jobs at Dublin Airport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11366/10]

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach speaks about responsibility. There is only one responsibility at issue here and that is the responsibility to the people who went into Tallaght hospital to have an X-ray taken. As the Taoiseach said, there were more than 700,000 X-rays done in that period of time and I imagine that almost every one of those patients is worried about whether their x-ray was one of the 58,000...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach talks about the level of risk and seeks to give reassurance that it is low. The truth is that he does not know the level of risk. There are 14,000 patients who, over the past four years, had a total of 23,000 X-rays carried out at Tallaght hospital that were not examined by a radiologist. Those X-rays have not yet been reviewed. Therefore, the Taoiseach does not know the...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When I talk to people about the state of the health service, one of the questions that comes up repeatedly is how long the Taoiseach intends to leave the Minister, Deputy Harney, in charge of the health service. He is about to reshuffle his Cabinet and has an opportunity to tell the people of this country this morning whether he will appoint a new Minister for Health and Children next week,...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date in 2010 regarding to implementation of the OECD report on reform of the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3184/10]

Public Service Reform. (10 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In the course of a newspaper interview last November, the Taoiseach said there was an urgent need for reform in the public service but that he felt the implementation of it would be in the medium to longer term. At what point in his 13 years as a Minister and Taoiseach since 1997 did he come to the conclusion there was an urgent need for public service reform? Second, as I was unclear from...