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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (18 Sep 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: A resolution of the situation facing the undocumented Irish in the United States has been and remains a priority for the Government in ongoing contacts with the US Administration and Congress. The Government has also attached great importance to providing for future flows of migration between Ireland and the United States through the extension of the “E-3” visa scheme to...

Proposed Deployment of the Permanent Defence Force to UNDOF: Motion (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: As Members are aware, the resolution before the House is part of the triple lock system, under which overseas deployment of the Defence Forces depends on a UN mandate, a Government decision and a resolution of the House. I strongly support the approval of the resolution before the House. I have been working closely with the Minister, Deputy Shatter, on this request. I fully support the...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: First, on the issue raised by Deputy Tuffy, when responding to this issue earlier I had in mind the performance of the Opposition rather than the performance of Members on the Government side. However, I did not wish to be unduly adversarial in my response.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree that on the issue of the involvement of all Members of the House, the principle of equality of treatment of all Members of the House must govern the manner in which Dáil reform is considered. In response to Deputy Ó Cuív on the number of Bills, 12 Bills have been published thus far. Four Bills have been approved by the Cabinet and are awaiting publication and five...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy McDonald asked about the gender composition of the Dáil. As she is aware, the Government has introduced legislation.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, but there is a need to remind the House that we have provided an arrangement for the next general election whereby every political party will be required to nominate a minimum of 30% of their candidates of either gender, and that goes up to 40% at the subsequent general election. Any party which does not do so will have half of its State funding cut. It is the first serious attempt...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I will make some inquiries about the report of the Omagh bomb victims and I will ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to respond directly to the Deputy. The Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill to which he referred will be later this year. I do not have a date yet for the credit legislation.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not know the answer to that question but I will get it for the Deputy Healy-Rae and communicate with him.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There is, yes. There have been discussions between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Irish Water with the local authorities and the trade unions representing staff in the local authorities. Those discussions have concluded. A water services Bill, the heads of which were approved by Government approximately two weeks ago is emerging and it is expected to...

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Durkan asked about two tranches of legislation. I do not have a date for the publication of either.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: No, we are not shying away from it at all. There is a consumer and competition Bill and the issue of media mergers is to be addressed in that. There is work being done on that. The Bill is at an advanced stage.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The issues are being considered jointly by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Preparation of the Bill is ongoing.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This was referred to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and was debated, I believe, yesterday. What we have is what has come back from the committee. It has already been considered and discussed in the committee and to my knowledge no division was called at the committee.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There is one amendment from the Seanad.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I believe an hour is plenty of time to debate that amendment. Is there no end to the hard neck of Fianna Fáil?

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: First the Deputy gets up and talks about jobs after his party losing 250,000.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Now he has the effrontery to get up and talk about banks after what his party did with the blanket bailout and took the-----

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This is about enabling people to get out-----

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no end to the hard neck and effrontery of Fianna Fáil.

Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: A period of repentant silence from Fianna Fáil is long overdue.