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Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach did not answer the specific questions I asked about the appointment of members of the Government and whether he knows about the crop rotation arrangement the Green Party has-----

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: While I am sure the Taoiseach will table a motion, I want answers to my questions now. Does a rotational arrangement exist? Is the Taoiseach aware of it and will he tell the House about it? I know all about the current industrial relations dispute and the difficulties it is causing for making representations and so on. That is not the issue I am raising with the Taoiseach. My question is...

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: My questions have not been answered.

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If I had been given answers to my questions the first time I put them, I would not have to ask them three times. Is there a secret agreement codicil of some kind to the programme of Government which provides for a rotation of the Green Party Ministers? If so, why did the Taoiseach not inform the House of it when he was introducing the programme for Government and forming his Government?...

Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am all for rotation.

Written Answers — Primary Care Services: Primary Care Services (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the consideration that has been given to the proposals from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children regarding primary care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10437/10]

Written Answers — Public Sector Reform: Public Sector Reform (3 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the main findings of the assessment undertaken under the Organisational Review Programme; the steps she plans to take arising from these findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10045/10]

Appointments to State Boards. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the appointments made by him to boards or agencies operating under the aegis of his Department since June 2002 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3181/10]

Appointments to State Boards. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Renewed Programme for Government contains a commitment that the Government will introduce, on a legislative basis, a more open and transparent system for appointments to public bodies. It states that this legislation will outline a procedure for the advertising of all vacancies and the inviting of applications from those interested in being appointed; it will also allow for the creation...

Appointments to State Boards. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Who is preparing the legislation? When I asked this before, the Taoiseach seemed to think it would come from the Department of Finance. Which Minister will present the detailed proposals to the Government? The policy mentioned in the Renewed Programme for Government is very explicit. It would provide for the publication of all vacancies likely to occur, the inviting of applications from...

Appointments to State Boards. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to know who is consulted.

Appointments to State Boards. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Who is consulted? The Cabinet handbook mentions the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and any other party leader. Do I understand from this that the consultation process is confined to the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government or is any other Minister included in the arrangement for approving appointments to various State bodies?

Appointments to State Boards. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Why does this need legislation at all? The only people who can make these appointments make up the Government, therefore, it must be asked if legislation is needed to govern what should be good practice. If the practice that should apply has been agreed among the parties in Government, as is reflected in the programme for Government, why is it not put in place? Is legislation really...

Appointments to State Boards. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Somebody got codded when this was being written.

Ministerial Travel. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions during 2009 on which sanction was granted by his Department for use by Ministers or Ministers of State of the use of Air Corps aircraft; the number of occasions when such requests were rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3182/10]

Ministerial Travel. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On Father Ted.

Ministerial Travel. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Phoenix, Arizona.

Ministerial Travel. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I heard the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Kenny and I understand from it that there was no request for approval of a flight from Phoenix, Arizona to Las Vegas and that no such approval was granted.

Ministerial Travel. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: But that is what I heard.

Ministerial Travel. (2 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Which is it then?