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Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: I note that the two Green Party Ministers are not present for this morning's Order of Business.

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: There is nothing particularly unusual about that because they are rarely present for the Order of Business. I ask the Tánaiste whether they are attending the launch of the Green Party's election manifesto, which was scheduled for 10.15 a.m. this morning. If that is the case, it brings the Green Party Ministers' disregard for this House to a new level of contempt.

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We all hold election events but we try to arrange them so they do not clash with key times for parliamentary business.

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If that is the case, it is unfair on members of the press who are expected to cover this House. Some of them are the sole representatives of their respective organs and are forced decide between attending the House and the Green Party event.

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Incidentally, I wish them well in the European elections.

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of primary teams that are fully operational; if initiatives are planned to speed up the process of establishing these teams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20461/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the policy of not using blood regularly taken from patients with haemochromatosis for transfusion for other patients is being re-considered; if she will initiate discussion in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20460/09]

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach says the Government is getting out of the PPP arrangement for the Thornton Hall project because of concerns about value for money. These concerns about value for money on this project are coming very late. I suggest the Taoiseach is now desperately playing catch-up on the value for money issue. Just three weeks ago, on 22 April, my colleagues, Deputies Pat Rabbitte and Mary...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, and where is Thornton Hall now? We already know that the cost to date is approximately €41 million, between the cost of the site, the cost of buying up the extra land for the road, and the cost of the professional fees and the siteworks-----

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----including landscaping of the site. In addition to that, we have to add in the €26 million that was paid in 2007 for the two acre former cash and carry site adjoining Mountjoy Prison in anticipation that Mountjoy would be closing down and moving out to Thornton Hall and that the Mountjoy site would be redeveloped. The Taoiseach should remember that purchase because, as Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach made a couple of references to the prudence of the financial arrangements for Thornton Hall and he explained how it was purchased from the sale of the land in Shanganagh. I know the land in Shanganagh, it is in my constituency. There was a prison there for juvenile boys and the Government closed it down although it is not the kind of facility that deserved to be closed down,...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform will come forward with some kind of proposal on it. Is the Government going ahead with a prison on the same scale as was originally intended? Does the Government intend to use substantially the same design? Is it intended to proceed with that project by PPP with another bidder or is it intended to proceed by way of direct provision? What...

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It got it from the local authority.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: No. I am making the point that the Prison Service got the money from the local authority.

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: How big is it?

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: So, the Taoiseach does not know what will be built, does not know how it will be built or does not know when it will be built.

Ireland-America Economic Advisory Board. (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has told us about the efforts being made at official level to liaise with US legislators and the US Administration in regard to the taxation issue in the US, which I welcome. To that end, what contacts are being made at Government level, in particular in the context of the legislation which will be considered on Capitol Hill? In that context, would the Taoiseach consider it...

Departmental Staff. (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the special political advisers or other non-established civil servants appointed to positions within his Department since his election as Taoiseach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16605/09]

Departmental Staff. (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Do the terms of the Government decision on the embargo on the recruitment of staff and the renewal of staff apply to the political staff employed by the Taoiseach and other Ministers? Were requests made by his Department to the Minister for Finance to sanction the filling of vacancies in his political staff since the Government circular issued on 27 March? In reply to previous questions on...

Departmental Staff. (20 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Will that be soon?