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Tribunals of Inquiry (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Does the Taoiseach know why it was necessary to appoint an additional senior counsel to conduct the last module of the public hearings when the tribunal already had other counsel available to it? There had not been public hearings for a while and this public hearing had been signalled for some time. I do not understand why, if other counsel were available to the tribunal, it was necessary...

Official Engagements (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the EU summit in December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42570/10]

Official Engagements (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he has yet received an agenda for the EU summit in December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42571/10]

Official Engagements (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that a proposal has not yet been made but, in developing the proposal which I understand the Taoiseach will present at the December summit, has the President, Mr. Van Rompuy, or his cabinet made contact with the Government to explore what sort of amendment might be made and whether a constitutional referendum would be required?

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We are in very exceptional times. Unprecedented uncertainty and instability surrounds the Government. The Government itself is in its last days. The only thing we do not know is how long Fianna Fáil intends to prolong the life of the Government. The Green Party says it will be January. Yesterday, the Taoiseach seemed to indicate it would be February. Deputy Collins told a radio station...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have already asked two questions, a Cheann Comhairle. Please bear with me and, perhaps, listen to what I am saying. I have asked two questions already and I am coming to the final one. Can the Taoiseach indicate to the House the distribution of the amount of the overdraft between the banks and the State?

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: What is wrong with that reply is that we must drag the information out of the Taoiseach. This is not private business but public business. We are in an unusual position in that the Government, in its final days, is in the process of negotiating what the Taoiseach now calls a very big overdraft on behalf of the people of the country. As late as a week ago, the Taoiseach was denying he was...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On the banks issue, the newspapers are full of talk about restructuring of the banks and about the extent to which the banks will be in public ownership. We were told some months ago that we had the final recapitalisation figure. It was a lot of money and was in the order of €50 billion, but we are now being told a loan or overdraft will have to be drawn down from the European Union in...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is not true.

Public Service Reform (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach to report on the publication by him on 4 October 2010 of the Second Report of the Organisational Review Programme [35866/10]

Public Service Reform (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The report, which was published in October, was particularly critical of the Department of Health and Children. It stated that the Department had not yet got to grips with managing the Health Service Executive, that allocation of staff was uneven and that staff morale within the Department was at a very low level. It went on to state "the quality of leadership [within] the Department is...

Public Service Reform (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: However, this is a report of the organisational review programme, which is the responsibility of the Taoiseach. The Taoiseach still has overall responsibility for the Government. This was a report that was conducted under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach on various Departments and, as I am entitled to do, I am asking the Taoiseach a question about it.

Public Service Reform (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is being very open.

Public Service Reform (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: One point made in the report regarding the Department of Health and Children was that at junior level, some staff are overwhelmed with work while at the same time, staff in other areas have little or nothing to do. Specifically, has that problem been resolved or when is such resolution likely? When are the reports due for the other Departments that are subject to the organisational review...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reform rent supplement so that the payment is made directly to the landlord instead of the tenant. [43834/10]

Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have in my hand a notice - it is not quite clear from where it was issued but it was somewhere in Government - concerning the launch of the four-year plan tomorrow. It states that the time and venue of the launch will be announced tomorrow, Wednesday, 24 November, but it invites media organisations to submit applications for accreditation for one reporter, one television camera -...

Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Clearly, the Government has already decided the arrangements for the launch of the four-year plan and it is not to be announced here in the House.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In the interests of the clarity of which the Taoiseach spoke earlier, can he tell us at what time will the four-year plan be launched tomorrow, where will it be launched and will the House be given an opportunity of discussing it tomorrow? Will the Minister for Finance or the Taoiseach-----

Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----come into the House to present it?

Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On the second matter I want to raise, yesterday the Green Party announced that its Ministers intend to resign from Government some time, apparently, in the new year. The Constitution provides for the arrangements whereby Ministers resign from Government. Have the Green Ministers submitted resignations to the Taoiseach and have they indicated a date when they are resigning from Government?...