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Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Tá na Teachtaí ag caint as dhá thaobh a mbéil faoin ábhar seo.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Tá siad ag clamhsán faoin méid ama atá ar fáil don díospóireacht seo.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Chuireamar trí uair a' chloig ar fáil an Aoine seo caite, ach níor úsáideadh an t-am sin go léir.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Bhí an Bille seo le críochnú ar 3.30 ar an tráthnóna sin, ach ní raibh go leor cainteoirí ar thaobh an Fhreasúra chun an díospóireacht a choimeád ar siúl. Thit an díospóireacht ar 3.10 an lá sin. Tá siad ag teacht isteach inniu ag gearán nach bhfuil dóthain ama ar fáil, cé nár úsáid said an t-am a bhí ar fáil an tseachtain seo caite.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Ní féidir leo a rá inniu nach mbeidh go leor ama acu.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Iarraim ort, a Cheann Comhairle, an cheist a chur.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: This Bill is reforming political funding. It is reducing the limits on contributions that can be made. It is an important item of political reform the Government is anxious to see put through the House. We have had a considerable amount of debate on it.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: There will not be attacks on the most vulnerable people in society and Deputy Higgins or anybody else should not be giving rise to ungrounded fears among people.

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Eamon Gilmore: That type of scaremongering-----

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Dáil is rising today with considerable progress made on this country's difficulties. We are rising having secured agreement at European Council level on the separation of bank debt from sovereign debt, something that many people on the Opposition side said could not be done. We have done it. We are rising in circumstances where, yesterday evening, this House completed Second Stage of...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We are rising after the announcement by-----

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: -----the Minister, Deputy Howlin, this week of €2.25 billion of a stimulus package for the Irish economy.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: This session has been a particularly long one. As we rise today I want to thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, all of the staff of the Houses, the Members, the press and everybody who works here for their co-operation and the amount of work they have put in. I wish Members of the House an enjoyable break from their endeavours. I do not think any Member of the House who will go on holidays for...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Passports Act 2008 states that the Minister shall, before issuing a passport to a child, be satisfied on reasonable grounds that each person who is a guardian of the child consents to the issue of a passport to the child. Section 6 of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 provides that married parents of a child are joint-guardians. Therefore if both are alive they are both required to...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: In March 2011 the British Government, acting on behalf of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, initiated proceedings with the US Department of Justice under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty between the two countries for the release of archived interviews held in Boston College. The archives are part of the Belfast Project, an oral history of Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries...

Written Answers — North South Ministerial Council: North South Ministerial Council (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy will recall that on 28 May 2012 I replied to a letter from him in regard to this matter. Following consultation with the relevant Departments and agencies, the Joint Secretariat of the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) wrote to Clones Town Council in November 2011 to explain that it was not in a position to arrange a meeting as requested. The reason for this was that the...

Written Answers — EU Presidency: EU Presidency (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The focus for the remainder of our OSCE Chairmanship will be on the preparations for the Dublin Ministerial Council, to take place from 6-7 December. We are taking forward the priorities which I have previously outlined to this House, ensuring balance and coherence across all three dimensions of the OSCE's work. Our aim for the Dublin Ministerial Council is to achieve concrete results,...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The peace process and the Good Friday Agreement have resulted in a transformation of society in Northern Ireland, perhaps most visibly in the normalisation of daily life and the dramatic decrease in terrorist-related incidents and violence. There remains, however, a threat from paramilitary groups who continue to assert their determination to impose a return to conflict on the people of...

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to take Questions Nos. 30 and 32 together. Ireland, along with our EU partners, have consistently asserted that the long term solution to the Middle East conflict, and the only way to secure the needs and interests of Israelis, Palestinians and others in the region is a solution based on two states, including a sovereign Palestinian state, and thus the ending of the Israeli...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (19 Jul 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Passports Act, 2008 provides, among other things, that only Irish citizens are entitled to be issued with Irish passports. Each application received by the Passport Service must, therefore, demonstrate that person's entitlement to Irish citizenship before a passport can issue. The Passport Service received an application from the person in question in April, 2011. At that stage, it...