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Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I will await the information but it would be odd if one had somebody dealing with legal issues arising from the programme for Government who was not-----

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has told us-----

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am trying to understand what it is about. It seems strange that the Attorney General who, effectively, is the law officer of the Government, would have a political adviser. The Taoiseach corrected me stating it is not a political adviser. He had earlier stated that it was to provide liaison of legal issues, etc. I am speculating as to how somebody could do that if he or she was not a...

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have. I submitted the following direct parliamentary question: "To ask the Taoiseach the duties and responsibilities of advisers or other political staff appointed to the Office of the Attorney General ..."., which question I am pursuing. The Taoiseach, in his reply, stated that he was dealing with legal issues arising from the programme for Government. I am asking the Taoiseach what are...

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach said the adviser in the Attorney General's office attends the weekly Government programme managers' and senior political advisers' meetings. It is well-known those meetings are of a political troubleshooting role. For example, if the report the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, received from Professor Brennan on the Dublin Docklands...

Departmental Staff. (9 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I was not casting aspersions on the Attorney General. I was just asking how the system for advisers operates.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Time should be provided today for the Minister of State with responsibility for children to come to the House and report to it on this matter. We need to address a number of issues. As Deputy Kenny stated, we have been told that 20 children died while in State care over the past decade and that there are a number of HSE reports relating to those deaths. We should hear a full statement on...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I have no intention of making a political issue out of this; it is far too serious and sensitive for that. The request that Deputies Kenny, Ó Caoláin and I have made is that time be made available in the House for the Minister of State with responsibility for children, Deputy Barry Andrews, to tell us the state of play in regard to this report. As Deputy Kenny said, we need to know when...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Therefore, we must have a reasoned discussion in the House about what happened, get all the information, see what the situation is and take it from there. I appeal to the Government to recognise that it is not a good idea to let today pass without this being discussed in the Chamber, with the Minister of State saying what he has to say and providing us with an explanation and with whatever...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The offer of having this dealt with on Tuesday is not satisfactory. I accept entirely that there may well be matters in these reports of a sensitive and private nature and which cannot be discussed in public. However, in this instance, as I understand it, it was the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, who identified the family publicly, not anybody on the Opposition benches. I do not...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise a couple of issues with the Minister for Transport.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank Deputy Brady.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I can always rely on Deputy Brady to back me against the Minister for Transport and I thank him. Constituency is everything. Yesterday, I raised the serious dispute that had arisen at Green Isle Foods, Naas, and I was glad to learn that a resolution of the dispute has been arrived at this morning. I wish to pay tribute to the efforts of two Members of this House who worked very hard to...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The House should express thanks to them. It was a highly sensitive situation and they worked very hard over a period to bring it to a resolution and I am glad this has happened. What arrangements will be made regarding a debate in the House on the national pensions framework and the issues arising therefrom? As for the composition of the Government, this is now getting to the point of...

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----the manager is unable to make up his mind as to who to put on as substitute.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: While we are on the subject of the Minister - for the time being - for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government-----

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----this week he replied to a parliamentary question in which he told Members that the Government had established a task force to wind up the electronic voting episode.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise two matters. First, when will this task force report?

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Second, it always has troubled me that the Minister, Deputy Martin Cullen, took all the blame for electronic voting as the Minister for Transport, who is taking the Order of Business, was the man who thought up the idea.

Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will he now take up the opportunity to take full credit and responsibility for the electronic voting episode-----