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Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am a little surprised the Taoiseach did not raise Sellafield directly with Prime Minister Brown. There has been a practice going back over a very long period that when the Taoiseach meets the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the issue is raised. I am surprised a Government in which the Green Party is participating would not raise the matter. I am also surprised at the extent to which...

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have a brief question for the Taoiseach since the Ceann Comhairle told us Opposition leaders cannot ask questions of each other. What does the Taoiseach understand Deputy Ó Caoláin to mean what he says the Provisional IRA is acting as a bulwark against dissident republicans? Does he know what that means and does he agree with that assessment?

Northern Ireland Issues. (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: "Discourage" is a lovely word.

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand two of the three reports on breast cancer services in the midlands due to be published today have been made available on the Department of Health and Children's website. Will the Taoiseach assure the House that the third report, which was compiled by Dr. Ann O'Doherty and which deals with the carrying out of mammograms in Portlaoise, will also be published today? Does he intend...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I am raising again a question I put to the Taoiseach yesterday. The Taoiseach is usually a great master of detail. However, when I put this question to him on two occasions yesterday, he did not refer to these e-mails in either reply. The Taoiseach may have had an opportunity to check the position since yesterday. What is the position as regards this attempt to cover up the number of...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for informing me that the HSE is holding a press conference at 2.30 p.m. in respect of the other two reports. Will he provide an assurance that copies of the two reports to be published by the HSE will at least be made available to Opposition health spokespersons before they are released to the press?

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: He certainly cannot be called the first mate after his less than full support last week.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was away and he did not have a translator for it so he can smile. What worries me about the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Kenny is that he seems to be somewhat in denial and seems to be taking the position on the economy that something will turn up. As I understand, the position is that in the first two months of this year, the State took in almost €700 million less in tax than...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: We know and understand that tax revenues are dropping. We expect Government to manage this and have a strategy to deal with it. What assurance can the Taoiseach give the House that as this is managed — he used the term "managed" on a number of occasions in his reply to Deputy Kenny — it will not be those who are least able to bear the burden who are asked to take the pain here? We...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Government were as good at managing the health service and at resourcing it as it is at providing tax breaks for those who want to invest in it, we would not have as many people presenting with and dying from cancer in the first place. The Taoiseach does not need to remind us of how close he is to the building industry — he is too close. Regarding the fall in employment in...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Of course, but what is the Government going to do with them?

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the report submitted to him on 14 December 2007 by the designated judge under the Interception of Postal Packages and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993 Section 8(1) as substituted by the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005, Section 66. [4113/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he last received a report from the Complaints Referee appointed under Section 9 of the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunication Messages (Regulation) Act 1993; the main findings of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6505/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 501: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he last received a report from the judge designated under Section 67 of the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005, to keep under review the provisions in the Act in regard to powers given to An Garda Síochána to access data in regard to telephone records; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 502: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he last received a report from the High Court Judge, designated under Section 8 of the Interception of Postal Packages and Telecommunication Messages (Regulation) Act 1993, to keep the Act under review; the main findings of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6506/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 186: To ask the Taoiseach the progress in relation to the implementation of the report of the Taskforce on Active Citizenship which was published in March 2007; if he will confirm the establishment of the active citizenship office; the work that office carried out to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8736/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason medical card holders are being requested to pay a top up charge when they attend a chiropodist for treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8825/08]

Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I was somewhat surprised at the Taoiseach's response to Deputy Tuffy's question about the amendment to the foreshore legislation. Just prior to the general election, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government sent a letter, a copy of which I have, to the effect that if his party were in Government no further permits would be given for offshore wind farms pending the...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not understand this problem at all. The distinction he is making between urgent and non-urgent is missing the point. I listened to Dr. Martin Daly speaking on radio the other morning where he made the distinction between urgent and non-urgent. Urgent is where a general practitioner concludes that somebody is already sick and must be seen immediately. Non-urgent is where...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Can the Taoiseach answer the question? Has he found anywhere where one will wait 18 months or more for a cancer test?