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Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 23: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the progress made regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes in so far as they apply to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32319/10]

Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the Taoiseach's Department put forward proposals to the various implementation bodies associated with the Croke Park agreement for reforms and cost savings?

Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Those issues are being dealt with by the staff and the management in the context of Estimates discussions which have begun and are ongoing. The reply that I have been able to give confirms that the Department of the Taoiseach is no different from any other Department. It must make a contribution to the overall budgetary imperatives.

Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, but the Croke Park agreement is in place since last April.

Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: My understanding is implementation bodies have been appointed and the idea was that they would consider proposals from Departments for reforms and further savings. Have such proposals been put by the Taoiseach's Department for consideration by those bodies?

Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a perfectly legitimate supplementary question. This is a wide-ranging issue. It is pretty straightforward. Have they or not?

Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not.

Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I only ask the questions.

Departmental Expenditure (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is good. I thank the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise two matters with the Taoiseach. Last week, an additional €2.7 billion was allocated to Irish Nationwide Building Society, bringing the total amount for that institution to €5.4 billion. Last April, Irish Nationwide Building Society appointed Ernst & Young as forensic auditors to look back over the lending practices of that institution. Has Ernst & Young yet presented...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (6 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will consider authorising the taxi regulator or National Transport Authority to provide financial incentives towards the purchase of new wheelchair accessible taxis; if he will authorise the regulator to buy back surplus taxi plates at cost price; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35045/10]

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On the matter of the cystic fibrosis unit for St. Vincent's Hospital, we had been told that this unit would be available by now. Will the Tánaiste ask the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House at some stage today to update the House on the exact position with regard to that unit? We have been hearing over the past number of days the harrowing accounts of young people who...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking that the Minister for Health and Children update the House on what is happening with regard to that unit. I wish to raise a second matter. I have been reading in the newspapers over the past couple of days and hearing media reports that the Cabinet decided on Tuesday that the Department of Finance would provide each of the Opposition parties with factual information on the...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----that the Labour Party has been writing to the Department of Finance since last April seeking this facility. My colleague, Deputy Joan Burton, has been raising the issue over a period of time about the type of information that Opposition parties need from the Department of Finance in order to address this issue. On that matter also, will the Tánaiste acknowledge, on behalf of the...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It relates to the Finance Bill. The third issue I wish to raise was referred to yesterday in a statement by my colleague, Deputy Joe Costello. Will the Tánaiste tell the House if it is true that the National Roads Authority made an arrangement with the toll companies on a number of new motorways, the effect of which was that if the traffic levels on those motorways fell below a particular...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----there would be a penalty which would have to be paid?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----We are now told that traffic levels on the M3 are 22% below the threshold-----

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and 26% below the threshold on the Limerick tunnel.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Tánaiste ask the Minister for Transport to make a statement to the House on this matter to tell us what kind of secret arrangements-----

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----were made between the NRA which may commit the taxpayer to having to compensate these toll companies by, we are told, up to €100 million over the lifetime of the contracts?