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European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of the EU summit in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2008. [24672/08]

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he had with other EU leaders on the margins of the EU summit in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24673/08]

European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if a consensus regarding the future of the Lisbon treaty emerged at the summit of EU leaders in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24674/08]

Written Answers — Access to Sporting Facilities: Access to Sporting Facilities (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way he will reconcile the increasing trend towards individual sporting pursuits as the area of strongest growth with the predisposition of the sports capital programme to overwhelmingly favour team sports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24563/08]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the heads of the Bill on the review of National Archives legislation will be published in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24582/08]

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach talks about managing the economy, yet he has been managing the economy as Minister for Finance since 2004. He has just led the country into a recession. What we need to establish now is what he proposes to do to lead us back out of that recession. There is no point saying it is due to global circumstances. Of all the OECD countries, none of the rest is in a recession, as...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The ESRI did not say that we are going back to the 1980s and nobody wants to do so. As a country we have come a long way from the 1980s. We must move forward and out of the difficulty we are in now. The ESRI has stated that we can get out of this recessionary period but it is down to the Government. The report is clear that this is Government responsibility, as it is Government...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We will not contribute to eroding confidence in the economy. The Opposition did nothing like what the Minister for Finance did last Friday. If we had our own currency last Friday, I wonder where he would have landed it. It is the job of the Taoiseach to restore confidence in the economy and give a steer to where things are going economically. The Taoiseach is responsible for us ending up...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We are in recession.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise four matters. The first arises from the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Kenny. I understood him to say the nursing homes legislation would not be introduced until later in the year at the earliest. Where does that leave all the families who have made plans on the basis that the new legislation would come into effect and who are now caught in a situation where some nursing homes...

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Is that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform or Defence?

Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Defence knows when it will be published.

Public Service Reform. (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to receive the report from the OECD on reform of the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14621/08]

Public Service Reform. (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach said he has established a task force to advance the recommendations. I understand that this task force is due to report by the end of the summer. Can the Taoiseach confirm if that is still the target date for the task force to report? Can he give some indications as to when we will have a report from the task force? He mentioned that there would be a process of consultation...

Public Service Reform. (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I never said decentralisation was a bad idea. Decentralisation cannot be judged solely on whether there are staff who are willing to decentralise to certain offices and whether they are happy when they do so. I have no doubt they are. No doubt, there are staff who want to relocate to other locations and there are staff who are very happy when they do so. That is not the issue. The issue...

Public Service Reform. (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is happening.

Public Service Reform. (24 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: There was no smart comment.

Written Answers — Food Prices: Food Prices (19 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the results of a number of surveys showing that reductions in the cost of goods imported from outside the euro area, which should have followed on from the increase in the value of the euro, particularly against sterling and the dollar, are not being passed on to consumers;...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (19 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative or other measures she will take to uphold the right to collective bargaining and particularly the right of a trade union to represent its members; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23922/08]

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (18 Jun 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recent announcement of a large number of new houses and extensions to existing settlements near Jerusalem and its implications for the possibility of peace initiatives. [23520/08]