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Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have a question for the Tánaiste.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The country is scandalised by what has happened in Tallaght. We need to get answers on behalf of the people, including the patients involved, and accountability from the Minister for Health and Children. The proposal to adjourn the House until 23 March is causing considerable difficulty. We have already voted on an earlier proposal and the Ceann Comhairle told us that the proposal that the...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----has the Minister for Health and Children transferred her responsibilities while she is in New Zealand.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Who in the Government-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will wind up when the Ceann Comhairle gets order for me. Who in the Government has responsibility for these matters and is answerable to this House for what happened in Tallaght while the Minister for Health and Children is in New Zealand? This is the issue on the Order of Business. It is not acceptable to the Opposition that the Dáil will be closed down now until 23 March, that no...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: However, there is a matter of ministerial responsibility and I wish to know which Minister is responsible.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On that, and following on from what Deputy O'Sullivan has said, one of our functions here is to hold the Executive to account. Here is the problem. The Ceann Comhairle suggests tabling a matter on the Adjournment, putting down a parliamentary question, etc. One cannot have an Adjournment debate or have a parliamentary question answered if the House is not sitting, and the House has just...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Bear with me, the House is not sitting until 23 March and parliamentary questions motions, etc., cannot be done that way.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We could perhaps ask that the Minister come into the House to answer questions today as it is the only day now open to us to have that done. The problem with that is the Minister, Deputy Harney, is in New Zealand and the Tánaiste has just told us that before she left she did not transfer her functions to any other Minister.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The House is sitting today. We want answers as to what happened in Tallaght.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There is.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The House is sitting today-----

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise three matters with the Tánaiste. The first relates to last year's St. Patrick's Day events on which occasion the Minister for Finance in an interview with The Financial Times stated that the Government intended to introduce as a matter of urgency legislation to deal with the problem of crony capitalism in Ireland. When will that legislation come before the House? The...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What is the answer to the question?

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Is there an address in New Zealand we can write to?

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We did not.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Who is in charge of the Department of Health and Children?

Written Answers — Agri-environment Scheme: Agri-environment Scheme (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the cost of planners will be covered in natura and commonage areas for farmers who apply for the new agri-environment options scheme. [12018/10]

Written Answers — Agri-environment Scheme: Agri-environment Scheme (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of funding that was spent on the agri-environment options scheme in 2010. [12017/10]

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (11 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the proposal by the Property Registration Authority to destroy hundreds of thousands of documents, some dating from the 19th century, as part of the authority's move towards e-conveyancing; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns about the plan expressed by historians and...