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Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (12 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a company (details supplied) is contracted by the National Treatment Purchase Fund to carry out scans on patients on the waiting list for the Eye and Ear Hospital; if the CTs are actually completed in St. Vincent's using St. Vincent's equipment, and the private company concerned pays St. Vincent's for the work; the reason the...

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (13 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the recent figures from the Central Statistics Office showing significant increases in 12 of the 16 main recorded offence groups between 2004 and 2008; the steps he is taking to counter this upward trend in crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19594/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (13 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the call from ADVIC, the advocacy group for families and friends of murder victims, for changes to the bail laws, particularly to bar those accused of murder from applying for bail in advance of their trial; his plans for dealing with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Oireachtas Reform (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 31: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach his proposals for Dáil reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6733/10]

Leaders' Questions. (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to stay on the same topic but to focus on the plight, in particular, of the 785 people who have been told this evening they are to lose their jobs at locations in Cork, Kildare and Dún Laoghaire, and on the worries of suppliers to Pfizer and those contracted to it. There are probably another 1,500 to 2,000 jobs in the wider economy that will be at risk as a result of this decision. ...

Leaders' Questions. (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I take it from the reply that the Tánaiste was aware at the time of the Pfizer takeover of Wyeth that there was a risk to jobs in Ireland. She said the chief executive of Pfizer promised to follow through on this but I would like to know the follow through undertaken by the Tánaiste. Following her conversation with the chief executive of Pfizer around the time of the purchase, did she...

Order of Business. (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste, in reply to Deputy Kenny, stated that the issue of the holding of a referendum on the rights of children is the subject of Private Members' business tonight. I am looking at the Government's proposed amendment to the motion that will be proposed by Deputies Howlin and Ó Caoláin. That amendment asks the House to commend "the Government for prioritising the promotion and...

Order of Business. (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party does not wish to make a party political issue out of this matter. Agreement has been reached by an all-party committee, which we support. We are simply seeking to have that agreed position proceeded with. The motion before the House tonight states that the Government can set the date for the referendum. All we want from Government is a commitment that the referendum will...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date on replacement of branded drugs with their generic counterparts in order to save money; if she will ensure that the cases made for the exclusion of certain drugs from the scheme because they are more effective than the generic will be examined by experts and fairly considered; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the swine flu H1N1 vaccination programme has concluded; the amount of money spent on the vaccine programme; if there are excess vaccines that will not be needed; if so, if it has been possible to reclaim the cost of same from the manufacturers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20191/10]

Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent report of the special rapporteurs on child protection appointed arising from the recommendation of the Sullivan Report following the A Case in 2006. [16718/10]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 498: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the full redundancy payments, as recommended by the Rights Commissioner, will be awarded to two former employees of a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19916/10]

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Last Thursday the Taoiseach made a long speech in which he admitted for the first time that Ireland's economic crisis was due not just to the international recession but to failures of his Fianna Fáil Government. When one wades through the grammatical constructs he used to distance himself from all of that, he appears to be saying that somebody somewhere should have done something earlier...

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Taoiseach did not hear all of that, his predecessor, Deputy Bertie Ahern, did because he described it as "people sitting on the sidelines cribbing and moaning". He referred to a lost opportunity and said he did not know why the people engaged in that do not commit suicide. Does the Taoiseach accept that the problem was not that he did not get the advice but that he did not act on it?

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is bad enough that the Taoiseach, both in his capacity as Taoiseach and in his former capacity as Minister for Finance, and his Fianna Fáil Government have ruined the Irish economy, but it is adding insult to injury for him to claim he had nothing to do with it, it was all somebody else's fault, he was not advised correctly, somebody else made certain proposals and so on. The fact of the...

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and he must take responsibility for what has happened. It is doing a grave injustice to all those people who have suffered severely as a result of what he has done to offer the type of self-justification in which he engaged last Thursday. The record will show that over the years, the Labour Party in particular identified various actions that should have been taken but were not.

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The proposal to abolish stamp duty came from the Government side of the House, from the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Michael McDowell.

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a serious rewriting of history to suggest it came from elsewhere. The truth of the matter is that the Taoiseach got warnings about what was happening in the property market and he got warnings about the consequences of light regulation. As far back as 2005 The New York Times was describing the Irish financial sector as the Wild West of the financial world and pointing out that the...

Leaders' Questions. (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The bottom line is that the Taoiseach did not listen to the warnings, did not do enough and did not take action. Last Thursday he described what has happened as a "stunning failure of corporate governance". It was a stunning failure - a stunning failure of government and by the Taoiseach in particular because it was he, as Minister for Finance, who was in charge during all of that period.

Social Partnership (19 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach when he last met the social partners; when he next expects to meet the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13689/10]