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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (29 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Unlike the situation in many countries, there is no system in Ireland for the issue of special CD vehicle license plates to members of the diplomatic corps. However, members of the diplomatic corps are entitled to certain protections under the Vienna convention. My Department is currently reviewing the practice prevailing in other European countries with regard to CD identification for the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (29 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Council of the European Union is a key decision-making institution of the EU, at whose meetings all EU Member States are represented. In addition, I have also co-hosted one informal meeting of Foreign Ministers, a so-called “Gymnich” meeting. Due to prior diary commitments, I was unable to attend the Extraordinary Foreign Affairs Council (Mali) meeting on 17 January 2013,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Parliamentary Questions Numbers (29 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: My Department seeks to ensure that any extra information to be provided as a follow-up to a Parliamentary Question is made available as quickly as possible. I am not aware of any undertakings to provide extra information in my replies to Parliamentary Questions from the Deputy in 2013. However, if he has concerns that undertakings to provide information that I have given through a...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Martin that what was shown in the "Prime Time" programme was shocking and hard to watch. It is completely unacceptable. It is every parent's worse nightmare that the child care facility to which they entrust their children may not be treating those children appropriately. It must be pointed out there are many very good child care service and facilities in this country...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with that absolutely. The incidents shown in the television programme require immediate action and an absolute determination to deal with these unacceptable practices. At a minimum, parents leaving their children in child care facilities need to know they will be safe and not mistreated, and we are determined to put in place a regime that ensures safety and proper treatment. The...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The last thing parents need if they are concerned this morning about leaving their child in a child care facility after what they saw on television on Tuesday night is for this issue to be turned into a political football in the House. We have a problem that needs to be resolved. It will be resolved and there is an obligation on everybody to work to do so. The Government established a...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This is a very serious issue which must be dealt with and the issues raised in Tuesday's television programme will be dealt with.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: To answer Deputy McDonald's question directly, if we have the power to cut funding, it will be cut where standards are not being maintained.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government will not tolerate circumstances in which taxpayers' money is being used to subsidise facilities where children are not being treated properly. Let me be absolutely clear about that. On the issue of inspections, as I stated, work is being done on a national regime for inspections and an analysis is being conducted of the inspections carried out to date. The results of...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: On the JobBridge issue, no JobBridge positions will be approved for any of the facilities that were named in the "Prime Time" programme.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Let us be clear about the issue the Deputy raised; JobBridge posts will not be approved for any of the facilities that were named in the programme.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: On the wider issue the Deputy raised, it is correct that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has been in place for two years but a hell of a lot of progress has been made in those two years. We are at the point where legislation is about to be introduced. As I indicated to Deputy Martin, the Children First guidelines will be placed on a statutory basis and a regime will be...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party will not take lectures from a Deputy who could not remain in a party with only two members.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Clare Daly is right-----

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: -----in that I do have experience of trade union work. From that experience I learned that the first thing any member of a trade union wants is his or her job. It cannot have escaped the Deputy's attention that this Government is engaged in protecting employment. In this instance, it is seeking to protect employment within the public service. The second thing one must have before one...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: We introduced the largest amount of wealth taxes ever in the budget and the Deputy voted against them.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: It is all very well to mouth off about wealth taxes and then vote against proposals relating to such taxes when they are put to the House.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Why is Deputy Clare Daly encouraging those who live in mansions worth over €1 million not to pay property tax? That is pure hypocrisy.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The number of people who are unemployed has not escaped my notice. I hope it will not escape the Deputy's notice that we are making some modest progress in this regard. The quarterly national household survey - which is being published about now - will show that during the past year the private sector has created over 2,000 jobs per month. That is in stark contrast with the 250,000 jobs...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: That is why we are taking action to deal with the problem of youth unemployment.