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Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, has been working on the issue for some time. It was considered by a meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee during the week and I expect his proposals will come before Government shortly.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The heads of the health insurance (amendment) Bill, to provide for revised risk equalisation credits for 2014 and some technical amendment to the health insurance Act, were approved for the Government recently. It is scheduled to be published next year. The Minister for Health is aware of the necessity to make progress. Work is proceeding on the preparation of the companies (miscellaneous...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not have a date for the Bill. It is a Bill to extend and improve the powers available to the enforcement authorities to prevent, reduce or abate noise nuisances by allowing for on the spot fines and to provide for mediation between neighbours.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Irish Aviation Authority (amendment) Bill consultation is under way with the two agencies concerned. A number of policy issues must be addressed before work on the heads of the Bill can commence. The Bill is expected next year.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government has agreed a formula for dealing with the reports from the Constitutional Convention, that we will consider each report as it comes before us and have given an undertaking to make a decision on our response to the report within four months. We have complied with that timetable to date and we intend to comply with it on each of the succeeding reports. The Constitutional...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: In my experience, it depends on the size of the garden. I would not chance putting a horse in the gardens of some of the more recently constructed dwellings, where the gardens are a bit on the small side. The landlord and tenant Bill will be taken late next year.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The consumer and competition Bill will give effect to the recommendations of the advisory group on media merchants mergers. Heads of the Bill have been approved and we expect to publish it this session.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Bill, officially known as the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013, has been published and it is expected to proceed in the next couple of weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (3 Oct 2013)

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 to him/her. The children in question were born in the State in 2008 and 2010, their entitlement to Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (3 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I spoke with the EU High Representative Cathy Ashton on Wednesday 28 August about the gas attacks in Syria on 21 August 2013. Syria was among the principal topics discussed at the informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers which I attended in Vilnius on 7 September and where we were briefed on the US perspective by Secretary of State John Kerry. I and my EU colleagues agreed that the Syrian...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (8 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Passports Act, 2008 requires that before issuing a passport to a person, the Minister for Foreign Affairs shall be satisfied as to the identity of each applicant and that the person is an Irish citizen. Documentary proof in respect of identity and entitlement to citizenship are required for all passport applications. These requirements are outlined in the passport application form notes...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (9 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware that a group of thirty activists affiliated with Greenpeace entered a Gazprom platform off the Russian coast on 18 September and were subsequently detained by the Russian authorities. All have now been charged with the serious crime of piracy. While there are no Irish citizens involved, the situation has been monitored by my Department and the Irish Embassy in Moscow. We are not...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation Expenditure (9 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Ireland’s missions abroad perform a wide range of functions in pursuit of Ireland’s foreign policy interests. These include representing and advancing government policies with other States and in international organisations, in particular the EU and the UN; economic, trade and cultural promotion; frontline consular and passport services to Irish citizens overseas; engaging...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Job Creation Numbers (9 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government's Trade Strategy, Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy, identifies high level targets for growth in exports, investment, tourism and jobs for the period to 2015 and feeds into the targets set in the Action Plan for Jobs. These targets have been identified by the relevant Departments and the State Agencies under their aegis. In overseas markets, my Department and our...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Data (9 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: To date, a total of eighteen age-related retirements have taken place in 2013 in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A further eight officers will retire by the end of 2013 i.e. six age-related retirements and two under the cost neutral Early Retirement Scheme. A total of fourteen officers are scheduled to retire in 2014, on reaching mandatory retirement age. No officer has so far...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I join Deputy Kelleher in expressing again my sympathy and that of the Government to Praveen Halappanavar and his family on the death last year of his wife, Savita. The report published yesterday makes difficult reading for them and everybody with an interest in maternity services. I do not believe there is a woman in the country who does not put herself in that bed on St. Monica's ward and...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There should be no issue of exoneration at any level regarding this issue. This is not a time for anybody to be exonerating themselves. I have been through the report which is very good and detailed, albeit using some of the guarded language that these reports use. I believe it gets to the nub of where the problems are. At every level actions need to be taken to address what is in this...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: One thing here matters above any other consideration of political debate or different interests in the health service lifting chunks of this report perhaps to support or defend a case that they are making. Over and above any of that has to be safety for the patient and for women who are admitted to our hospitals during pregnancy. In this particular case, the report stated there were 13...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: We have a choice with this report. We can take it now and use it as ammunition in whatever case we want to make, whether a political case around the budget or the delivery of resources, a case in the arguments that go on within the service about whether resources should go here or there, or in arguments between one institution and another. We can use it in those ways or we can take this...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government is very much aware of the increase in the costs of fuel and the pressure that is putting on households, families and elderly people. This is the reason a range of supports is in place to support people with the cost of fuel. One thing that is clear regarding fuel, energy and gas is that we in Ireland are receivers. We are receivers with regard to the cost of fossil-based...