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Written Answers — Croke Park Agreement: Croke Park Agreement (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made in implementing measures in the Croke Park deal that deal with issues of cost savings on shared services, procurement, HR management and so on and on reconciling the different financial accounting systems within the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41876/10]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures being taken to ensure that there are adequate numbers of non-consultant hospital doctors for service needs in January 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41877/10]

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That proposal is not satisfactory.

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste has given a part-----

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Not for the first time, the Minister for Transport is wrong-----

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----because the Tánaiste is in effect amending the order she put before the House earlier as she now proposes that there will be a debate.

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: She is proposing that there should be a debate, which would be led and responded to by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food-----

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and I am now responding on behalf of the Labour Party to that proposal.

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: My response to it is that it is not satisfactory because the issue at stake here is the Tánaiste's handling of this matter when she was Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. I will give one example from the statement she made. She says that the Court of Auditors laid the blame at the feet of the European Commission. The Court of Auditors blamed the European Commission for working...

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Who was responsible for the Commission working off old figures? Who was responsible for it having the old figures and who was responsible for it not knowing what consolidation took place between Carlow and Mallow? Was it the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at the time, whose job it was to tell the Commission?

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste's proposal is not acceptable to the Labour Party because that proposal involves a debate which will not have the Tánaiste responding to the questions that need to be addressed.

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: She was the Minister at the time.

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will explain why this is important. The Carlow factory closed down and the operations were consolidated-----

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----in Mallow. The Commission did not know what had happened. We are told by the Court of Auditors that the Commission did not know what happened and it did not have the up to date figures and that the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at the time was the Minister responsible for making sure the Commission had the figures.

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is normal, a Cheann Comhairle, to deal with a number of matters on the Order of Business.

Order of Business. (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Today's Financial Times contains three articles on Ireland's economic difficulties, including a front page report on yesterday's increase in Ireland's cost of borrowing. I understand our cost of borrowing has risen still further this morning. I ask the Tánaiste whether the Minister for Finance plans to make a statement before the weekend either in the House or outside it to address the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Ceann Comhairle ruled out the suspension of Standing Orders to allow for this matter to be debated. He said it could be dealt with on the Adjournment. That is not satisfactory because-----

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: A private notice question does not deal with it either because it will be addressed to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith. We need to hear from the Tánaiste, who was the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at the time and who was at the Council of Ministers. We have a report from the EU Court of Auditors that states very clearly that the factory...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ------play when she was Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is called accountability.