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Order of Business (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I cannot give the Deputy a timescale. Work is under way and there is the legislative programme, but the commitment will be honoured.

Order of Business (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: That legislation, which is coming from the Department of Justice and Equality, is due next year.

Order of Business (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Go raibh maith ag an Teachta as an chuireadh go Cluain Meala. Tá súil agam go mbeidh mé ann i rith an tsamhraidh chun cuimhneachán a dhéanamh ar bhunú Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre.

Order of Business (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The HSE governance Bill is due this session.

Order of Business (10 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The housing Bill is due this year.

Written Answers — Prisoner Transfers: Prisoner Transfers (9 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The person referred to by the Deputy first came to the attention of my Department in 1997 when the person was initially arrested. Since then, my Department, through the Consulate-General of Ireland in Boston, has afforded all possible consular assistance to the person mentioned. Successive Consuls in the Consulate in Boston have visited the person. The current Vice Consul visited the person...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (9 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables. Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr. Eamon Gilmore T.D. May 2011 Annual salary or scale € Office of the Tánaiste 1 Special Adviser 168,000 1 Special Adviser 155,000 1 Personal Assistant 43,715 – 56,060 Private Office – Foreign Affairs and Trade 1 Special Adviser 80,051 1...

Written Answers — Election Monitoring: Election Monitoring (9 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government engages in electoral preparation and monitoring activity under the auspices of official EU Election Observation Missions. No decision has been taken yet by the EU to send an Election Observer Mission to Angola. Ireland would give favourable consideration to the organisation and deployment of an Election Observation Mission to Angola. The issue will need to be considered by EU...

EU Presidency: Statements (9 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I am delighted to mark the occasion of Europe Day, a celebration of what Europe, once a continent at war with itself, can do when it comes together to face our challenges. Facing adversity united and strengthened is nothing at all new for the European project. It is what we have done since the Union's foundation. Despite many predictions of doom or imminent downfall, including from within...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (8 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: On 25 March 2011, the European Council agreed to amend Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to insert the following text: '3. The Member States whose currency is the euro may establish a stability mechanism to be activated if indispensable to safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole. The granting of any required financial assistance under the mechanism...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (8 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is responsible for two Votes – Vote 28 (Foreign Affairs) and Vote 27 (International Cooperation). The following tables set out the details of external reports commissioned by the Department from February 2011 and the costs in each case. The tables have been prepared by reference to directly contracted engagements in respect of which professional...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (8 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: My Department does not engage external consultants or professional service providers for marketing purposes.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table: NAME AND GRADE POSITION HELD/ REASON DURATION ESTIMATED COST OF CONTRACTIN 2012€ Mr. Frank CoganAssistant Secretary Head of Task Force in connection with Ireland's Chairmanship of the OSCE, 2012 Contract from 7 January 2011 to 31 December 2012 70,835 Mr. Padraig MurphyDeputy Secretary Tánaiste's Special...

Written Answers — State Banking Sector: State Banking Sector (8 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: My Department has no record of any contract or business arrangement with the company in question.

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The case of Chen Guangcheng has been raised frequently by the European Union including at the EU-China human rights dialogue on 16 June 2011. Mr. Chen, a blind human rights defence lawyer was, until recently, being held under house arrest in Shandong Province in China. Currently, reports indicate that he escaped from house arrest last week, was at the US Embassy in Beijing for a number of...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government remains concerned about the case of Mrs. Asia Bibi. In November 2010 a Punjab court found Mrs. Bibi guilty of blasphemy, sentencing her to death by hanging. This is the first time that a woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan under its blasphemy law. When the case came to the attention of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ambassador accredited to...

Written Answers — Diplomatic Representation: Diplomatic Representation (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The administrative costs associated with running the Embassy in Washington DC from 2008 to 2011 to date are provided below. This budget is considered to be the locally-devolved administrative (day-to-day) budget including local staff salaries but not salaries of diplomatic staff, which are a charge on the Headquarters budget. In line with overall Departmental cost-containment policies, the...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: My Department does not have an office in County Waterford. There are no State agencies under the aegis of my Department.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The position is that our intention is to be back in the markets, and to do that we must continue the investment. That continued investment is dependent on there being a stable euro, which is the reason it is necessary for us to ratify this treaty. Deputy Pringle said he does not believe we will get back into the markets. If we do not get back into the markets and if it turns out that a...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The only source of funding that will be available is the ESM, and access to the ESM will be possible only if the treaty is ratified. If, as a country, we want to have the insurance, the safety net and the reliability that is associated with having emergency funding available to us, which is prudent, we should be clear that the only source of that is the ESM, and access to that means...