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Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, it is about consensus. The proposal from the Minister, Deputy Gormley, is that there be a process leading to consensus. The Taoiseach is not confirming that but is saying we will have a meeting to share information, with the Government going off to make its decisions. I have not yet heard the Taoiseach say it is the Government's intention to engage in a process with the Opposition...

Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Today it was announced the children's hospital on the Mater site will be built by 2015. Is it intended to introduce a separate Estimate for the Department of Health and Children to deal with this? I cannot find any legislation regarding the children's referendum in this session's legislative programme. Has the Government dropped the idea of having a referendum on the protection of children?

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The formal social partnership arrangements were contained in the document Towards 2016 which was subsequently revised and called Towards 2016: Review and Transitional Agreement. Do those two documents still apply? Are those still live and operational and does the Government consider itself to be bound by the terms of those agreements? In respect of the implementation body set up to oversee...

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Two questions arise from the Taoiseach's reply. When was the last time there was a meeting together of all the social partners or all the main elements of the social partnership arrangement, namely of Government, employer bodies and trade unions in particular? Second, with regard to the action plans being made by Departments, do I understand correctly that the proposals to which the...

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Was it in the past year?

Social Partnership (12 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If the only meetings that have taken place on social partnership have been effectively bilateral meetings between the Government and individual components of the social partnership arrangement, and there has not been a plenary meeting in recent times - clearly, the Taoiseach cannot remember when there was last a plenary meeting of the social partnership process - is it not fair to say that...

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to recent statistics released by the Central Statistics Office which showed a significant number of offences committed by persons on bail in the past three and a half years, including 33 murders; if he is satisfied with the current operation of the bail laws in view of these figures; and if he will...

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to recent figures from the World Health Organisation that Ireland has the highest homicide rate of young men in Western Europe and the second highest rate for knife killings; the steps he will take to deal with this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35363/10]

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On the matter of the cystic fibrosis unit for St. Vincent's Hospital, we had been told that this unit would be available by now. Will the Tánaiste ask the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House at some stage today to update the House on the exact position with regard to that unit? We have been hearing over the past number of days the harrowing accounts of young people who...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am asking that the Minister for Health and Children update the House on what is happening with regard to that unit. I wish to raise a second matter. I have been reading in the newspapers over the past couple of days and hearing media reports that the Cabinet decided on Tuesday that the Department of Finance would provide each of the Opposition parties with factual information on the...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----that the Labour Party has been writing to the Department of Finance since last April seeking this facility. My colleague, Deputy Joan Burton, has been raising the issue over a period of time about the type of information that Opposition parties need from the Department of Finance in order to address this issue. On that matter also, will the Tánaiste acknowledge, on behalf of the...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It relates to the Finance Bill. The third issue I wish to raise was referred to yesterday in a statement by my colleague, Deputy Joe Costello. Will the Tánaiste tell the House if it is true that the National Roads Authority made an arrangement with the toll companies on a number of new motorways, the effect of which was that if the traffic levels on those motorways fell below a particular...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----there would be a penalty which would have to be paid?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----We are now told that traffic levels on the M3 are 22% below the threshold-----

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and 26% below the threshold on the Limerick tunnel.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Tánaiste ask the Minister for Transport to make a statement to the House on this matter to tell us what kind of secret arrangements-----

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----were made between the NRA which may commit the taxpayer to having to compensate these toll companies by, we are told, up to €100 million over the lifetime of the contracts?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is important that the Tánaiste would acknowledge in the House, on behalf of the Government, that the two main Opposition parties have accepted the target which the Government agreed with the European Commission in respect of the deficit reduction. There was some reference to this elsewhere yesterday. We all understand the importance that attaches to this. It is a fact that both the...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: In the national interest, the Government should acknowledge the fact that the two main Opposition parties have accepted those targets.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No, it was not. He denied it.