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Written Answers — Passport Service: Passport Service (19 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: 1The Passports Act 2008 provides, inter alia, that the Minister for Foreign Affairs shall be satisfied that a person is an Irish citizen before a passport is issued to him/her. The Minister has no discretion in awarding a passport to an individual who is not an Irish citizen. Any person who was born abroad and whose citizenship basis is directly linked to an Irish adoptive parent must...

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (19 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Priority Questions Nos. 9 and 10, answered on 13 July 2011, which follows. The continuing Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian Territories is at the heart of the unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict. The issues which have been critical for Israel for most of its history – the existence of the State of Israel and its right to live in peace and security...

Written Answers — Emigrant Support Services: Emigrant Support Services (19 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Emigrant Support Programme, administered by my Department, provides funding to non-profit organisations and projects to support Irish emigrant communities overseas and to facilitate the development of more strategic links between Ireland and the global Irish. Since 2004 over 80 million Euro has been provided to organisations which provide culturally sensitive, front-line welfare,...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (20 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: As you are aware from the reply to your Question No. 68 of 28 June 2011, the Department wrote to the applicant's parents on 30 April, 2011 and again on 16 June 2011 to explain its decision in this case. I can confirm that there is no record in the Passport Service of a reply from the parents. Accordingly, there has been no progress with this application since 28 June, 2011. If the Deputy...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (20 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There are currently 41,223 passport applications in the system, which are being processed by the Passport Offices in Molesworth Street, Balbriggan, Cork and London. This is down by 10,019 (24%) on the figure of 51,242 which was given in reply to Question no. 76 of 12 July, 2011. This reflects an improved situation in passport services with the turnaround period for Passport Express...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (20 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no record of an application for the person in question in the passport system. If the person concerned was born in County Antrim, he is an Irish citizen by virtue of that fact and, as such, he has entitlement to an Irish passport. There would, therefore, be no need to apply for this person to become a naturalised Irish citizen. If the person concerned wishes to apply for a passport...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (20 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: I can confirm that the fee for applications submitted through ordinary post is an extra €15, which is €6.50 more than those applications submitted through Passport Express, allowing for the Post Office charge of €8.50. The new fee was brought into effect by the Statutory Instrument 47 of 2011, which was advertised in the national press before its implementation on 11 April 2011. The...

Order of Business. (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 12, Revised Estimates for Public Services 2011 [Votes 24, 27, 39, 40, 41, 43] (back from committee); No. 13, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a Council decision on the signature of the agreement between the European Union and Australia on the processing and transfer of passenger name record data by air carriers to the Australian Customs and Border...

Order of Business. (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: All these proposals have been debated and considered in the respective committees. That is why we set up a committee system. That is why Members have plenty of opportunity to discuss these issues at committees. These are reports back from committees where these issues have already been discussed.

Order of Business. (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: This Bill provides for a number of reforms in civil law. There is time allocated for this today up to 2 p.m. and I believe that is a sufficient amount of time to deal with it. The Government is anxious that the Bill be dealt with and passed by the House today.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: All of these are pieces of reforming legislation and I would expect Members of the House to support them. One of the proposals, for example, deals with amendments from the Seanad to the child care Bill. I recall last week that Deputy Ó Caoláin specifically asked for those amendments to be made, and they were made in the Seanad.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The House will today agree the amendments made in the Seanad which were proposed by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. It would be somewhat strange for the House to want to delay the implementation of those amendments and important child care legislation.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: No. 17b relates to the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 and the proposal will allow the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to introduce amendments to the Bill which will, for example, deal with the long outstanding issue of the name of Dingle and Daingean Uí Chúis. There are also a number of technical amendments relating to the birds directive.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has a number of pieces of reforming legislation before the House and there is absolutely no reason this legislation should not be enacted. I see no reason for the Opposition, or parts of it, to want to delay the reforms being dealt with.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The purpose of the guillotine is to get legislation through.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a difference.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: The difference is that this is good reforming legislation in the public interest.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: There are a number of pieces of legislation and, in fairness, Deputy Ó Snodaigh is correct in that these Bills are not being opposed, as I understand it. The times we have set down to conclude the debate on each of the pieces of legislation is to provide a form of discipline for the House to ensure we get through all of them.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: We should acknowledge that the House, since the general election, has sat for 38% longer than was previously the case. The recess that is being proposed for this summer is the shortest that I certainly can recall, and I am in the House 22 years. The date originally proposed by the previous Government for the adjournment of the Dáil for the summer was 7 July and the date for resumption was...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and express the hope that there will be a positive outcome for Ireland from that meeting. I certainly hope that there will be such a positive outcome and if there is, I hope it will be welcomed, not only by those of us who are on the Government side of the House but right across the House. Much work has gone in over a long period of time to reach the point where today, hopefully, this...