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Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the rolling out of integrated ticketing and real time information systems on bus services across the greater Dublin area; when both of these systems will be fully in place and operational across the GDA: if he has been briefed by Dublin Bus management on the network review that it is currently undertaking; when the revised...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand why this industrial action is taking place; it is a result of anger among low-paid public servants in particular that the Government unilaterally cut pay and threw their trade unions out of Government Buildings last December. When issues of pay and people's employment conditions and contracts are approached in such a way, there is a consequence. I have called for a suspension of...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, this is the Order of Business and I am seeking to discover whether the Taoiseach - in the absence of further unnecessary rancour - will agree to have this matter referred to an Oireachtas committee in order that it might be dealt with. If this does not happen, those of us who are members of Opposition parties will be obliged to take the appropriate steps in order to exercise our...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It has not happened. That is the issue.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Given that the Taoiseach has no objection to the Lost at Sea report being referred to an Oireachtas committee, will he accept the motion on the Order Paper in that regard which is tabled in the name of Deputy Sherlock? The issue now at stake here is as much about the Office of the Ombudsman as it is about the report. The dissatisfaction with the way the report was dealt with was expressed...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Seán Sherlock's motion on the Ombudsman.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I hear what the Taoiseach is saying, that he will not stand in the way of it being referred to committee, in which case the Labour Party will move Deputy Seán Sherlock's motion as soon as possible. Will the Taoiseach provide Government time for it? I am still confused about the Departments.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We did but it does not-----

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Are these reconfigured Departments not reconfigured yet? Are we still talking about the Departments as we had all got to know and love them?

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am not playing a game.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I only want clarity.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: So nothing has changed at all from yesterday.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government does not know what it is doing.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It does not have a clue. It does not know what it is doing.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not know.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not have a clue.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We are not playing a game.

International Agreements. (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Everyone shares the view that the outcome at Copenhagen was deeply disappointing. I would like to pursue the Taoiseach a little further on the action being taken by the Government to tackle climate change. The revised programme for Government contained a number of commitments in this regard. First, there was a commitment that the Government would introduce a climate change Bill to give a...

International Agreements. (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I accept the Taoiseach's answer in respect of two of the four matters I raised. I will pursue the ratification of the Aarhus Convention with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. If the Taoiseach can tell me which Minister is responsible for the producing the national climate change adaptation strategy, I will be happy to pursue the matter with him or her. I do not accept that the Taoiseach is...