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Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I did not offer on this issue at the beginning of the discussion——

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ——-because the arrangement whereby 90 minutes would be agreed for discussion of this issue today was agreed yesterday. The Labour Party agreed to that yesterday and I intend that it will honour that agreement.

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Part and parcel of that agreement was an understanding that we would be enabled to return to this issue after Easter. I do not want that opportunity to be closed down because it would be quite different from what we agreed to yesterday. Statements on banking policy would remain on the Order Paper, in the same way statements on the budget and so on remain on it, and we would return to them...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not agreed. The proposal is that the Dáil shall adjourn until Tuesday, 20 April 2010. It has been the tradition that the Dáil adjourns for a fortnight for Easter. Whatever argument there may have been in the past about whether that is a good or bad idea or good or bad practice, it is certainly not acceptable for the times in which we are living. There is a range of things which we...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government Chief Whip, the Minister of State, Deputy Curran, had responsibility for the national drugs strategy. In the reconfiguration of ministerial portfolios, the job previously held by the Minister of State, Deputy Curran, did not reappear. Which Minister is now responsible for the national drugs strategy?

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (1 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the national drugs strategy; if he will clarify which Minister or Minister of State now has overall responsibility for the operation of the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14273/10]

International Financial Services Centre. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the role his Department plays regarding the supervision of the International Financial Services Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6732/10]

International Financial Services Centre. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to ask the Taoiseach specifically about the proposal for a green IFSC, to which he referred, which was contained in the report of the high level action group on green enterprise which was published last December. Launching that report, both the Taoiseach and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources said that of the order of 20,000 jobs could be created over the...

International Financial Services Centre. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a lot more ambiguous and long term than the statements about this made by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Taoiseach himself in December. The Taoiseach is now saying a feasibility study is being done. I would have thought the study would already have been done if it was in the report of the high level action group on green enterprise when it was...

International Financial Services Centre. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When will we see the first green IFSC job or enterprise?

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff employed in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; if he is satisfied that there are sufficient staff to allow the full and effective discharge of duties by the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12489/10]

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the DPP subject to the circular issued by the Department of Finance last March, which directed that no vacancy, however arising, could be filled? The Taoiseach stated that a number of additional solicitors are employed in the DPP's office. Will he indicate the number of posts in respect of which the DPP applied for exemptions from the Department of Finance circular?

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That was in 2007.

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Everyone would agree that it is important that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions should have available to it the staff that are necessary in order to ensure that prosecutions are not delayed, that the enforcement of law can be dealt with in an expeditious manner and that efforts to deal with criminal activity and the resultant legal cases will not be hindered in any way. Will...

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There are no staffing issues.

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is good.

Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach makes it sound as if this top-up to the pension fund is for the bank's porters and tellers. It arises directly from the change in the contractual arrangements that were made for the chief executive of the bank. Under the terms of the credit institutions legislation, did the Government or the Minister for Finance approve this top-up arrangement? Does the Minister for Finance...

Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I find that reply concerning the pension issue remarkable. As I understand it, the enhanced payment to the pension fund arises directly from the fact that the retirement age of the person in question is to be reduced from 60 to 55. By any standards, an early retirement arrangement of that kind is generous and, I would think, somewhat exceptional, at a time when the Government is talking...

Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The question is that these issues could be raised by an Opposition Deputy, issues such as, for example, Irish Nationwide and its management having been, for years, the subject of accusations, some substantiated, of bad business practices, lack of accountability and failing to pass on interest rates. He went on to draw attention to things the Ombudsman had to say in that regard. If those...

Death of Polish President: Expressions of Sympathy (20 Apr 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On behalf of the Labour Party I extend my deepest sympathies to the Polish people on the death of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and 94 other people in the Smolensk air crash on 10 April. For any country, the death of so many of its citizens would be a terrible disaster but the loss of such a body of distinguished leaders of political, civic and military society in Poland is a...