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Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is important that the Tánaiste would acknowledge in the House, on behalf of the Government, that the two main Opposition parties have accepted the target which the Government agreed with the European Commission in respect of the deficit reduction. There was some reference to this elsewhere yesterday. We all understand the importance that attaches to this. It is a fact that both the...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In the national interest, the Government should acknowledge the fact that the two main Opposition parties have accepted those targets.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No, it was not. He denied it.

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to recent figures from the World Health Organisation that Ireland has the highest homicide rate of young men in Western Europe and the second highest rate for knife killings; the steps he will take to deal with this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35363/10]

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to recent statistics released by the Central Statistics Office which showed a significant number of offences committed by persons on bail in the past three and a half years, including 33 murders; if he is satisfied with the current operation of the bail laws in view of these figures; and if he will...

Departmental Expenditure (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the total cost of the development and maintenance of the www.merrionst.ie website; the intended purpose of the website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32322/10]

Departmental Expenditure (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have been listening to the Taoiseach's replies to Deputy Kenny and I am still not clear why it was necessary to set up a new website, given that the Government already has the www.gov.ie and the www.irisoifigiuil.ie websites for official purposes. There are also separate departmental websites for each Department and a citizens' information website. What was intended to be provided on this...

Departmental Expenditure (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach indicated the purpose of the website is to provide more information to citizens. Why would a citizen looking for Government information do a Google search for www.merrionstreet.ie? Where did the name come from and what was the idea behind it? If a citizen wants to find out what the Government is doing and does not know which site to visit, I would think that person would look...

Departmental Expenditure (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I looked at the website.

Departmental Expenditure (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I thought I was on the Fianna Fáil website. There is no difference between what is on that site and what one gets on Government party sites. It has various press releases, interviews and so on. It is not an information site but a form of propaganda, that is to communicate good news from the Government. That is fair enough and I am not objecting to that. However, there were already...

Departmental Expenditure (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I had to push the Taoiseach a bit.

Departmental Expenditure (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Bring them on.

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he next plans to meet social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32314/10]

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The formal social partnership arrangements were contained in the document Towards 2016 which was subsequently revised and called Towards 2016: Review and Transitional Agreement. Do those two documents still apply? Are those still live and operational and does the Government consider itself to be bound by the terms of those agreements? In respect of the implementation body set up to oversee...

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Two questions arise from the Taoiseach's reply. When was the last time there was a meeting together of all the social partners or all the main elements of the social partnership arrangement, namely of Government, employer bodies and trade unions in particular? Second, with regard to the action plans being made by Departments, do I understand correctly that the proposals to which the...

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Was it in the past year?

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If the only meetings that have taken place on social partnership have been effectively bilateral meetings between the Government and individual components of the social partnership arrangement, and there has not been a plenary meeting in recent times - clearly, the Taoiseach cannot remember when there was last a plenary meeting of the social partnership process - is it not fair to say that...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to pursue the Taoiseach in respect of a number of the responses he provided to Deputy Kenny. The letter which Deputies Kenny and Ó Caoláin and I received from a Minister in the Taoiseach's Government refers to a three-stage process. One of these is agreement on the 3% target, with which the Labour Party concurred when the Government reached agreement on it with the European...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is not what the Minister, Deputy Gormley, has proposed. What the Taoiseach has just outlined now is an entirely different process, whereby we would have a meeting to run a ruler over the information with which we have been provided from the Department of Finance and understand that we all have the same information. That is an information-sharing exercise. I will ignore the Taoiseach's...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, it is about consensus. The proposal from the Minister, Deputy Gormley, is that there be a process leading to consensus. The Taoiseach is not confirming that but is saying we will have a meeting to share information, with the Government going off to make its decisions. I have not yet heard the Taoiseach say it is the Government's intention to engage in a process with the Opposition...