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- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: He also said it will be submitted to the chief executive officer of the HSE. Have I the Taoiseach's assurance that the report will be published?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The other reports to which I referred are the two HIQA reports, one in the case of Rebecca O'Malley and the other in the case of University College Hospital, Galway. The Taoiseach did not refer to those in his response. When does he expect them to be published?
- Departmental Expenditure. (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his Department's Estimate for 2008. [31972/07]
- Departmental Expenditure. (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I understand from that reply that the Taoiseach believes Departments should not duplicate the information they receive from his Department. The response to the questions tabled to Departments on this showed that they spent â¬674,000 last year in media monitoring, apparently contracted out to different media monitoring bodies.
- Departmental Expenditure. (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: According to this information, the Department of Health and Children, the Taoiseach's Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs are spending â¬125,000, â¬129,000 and â¬53,000, respectively, on media monitoring. It seems a bit wasteful that Departments are going elsewhere if the Taoiseach's Department's media monitoring unit is providing the service. There is a new item in the 2008...
- Departmental Expenditure. (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. With regard to the commemorations, I would like him to look at the possibility of providing funding for commemoration of the sinking of the RMS Leinster, which was the biggest sea tragedy we have experienced and which was sunk by a German U-boat while carrying many of the soldiers who were going back to fight at the front in the First World War. It was...
- Ireland-US Relations. (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his meeting on 17 November 2007 with former President Clinton. [30824/07]
- Ireland-US Relations. (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if arrangements have been finalised for his proposed address to a joint sitting of the US Senate and House of Representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1482/08]
- Ireland-US Relations. (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach is to address the Joint Houses of the US Congress in April or May. It is a great honour for him and indeed, for the country, and I wish him well. In his various contacts, as regards both his address to Congress and his St. Patrick's Day visit, how does the Taoiseach intend to further explore possibilities for resolving the problems faced by the...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I also want to put down a marker in this regard. The proposal before us today is the third change in the ministerial rota for parliamentary questions since we came back last week. This used to be a very rare occasion and it was something the Opposition parties and spokespersons were quite happy to accommodate. If a Minister is away on important official business on behalf of the country,...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise two matters. First, I understand that the Taoiseach is going to Manchester on Saturdayââ
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: ââwhere he intends to meet with Prime Minister Brown.
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish him well in that endeavour. I also wish to identify with the event commemorating the Munich air disaster that the Taoiseach intends to attend. However, given the extent to which Manchester has been an occasion of temptation for the Taoiseach in the past, and given the day that is in it, may I suggest a few Lenten pledges that he might take? He should stay away from the Four Seasons...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I have previously referred to the nursing homes Bill, which is to deal with the payment of nursing charges, in the context of consultations with organisations representing the elderly. Have legal or constitutional issues now arisen in respect of that promised legislation? In particular, has the proposal to attach a charge to the estate of a deceased person raised constitutional difficulties...
- Order of Business (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Bring her back.
- Written Answers — Transport 21: Transport 21 (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a full report to Dáil Ãireann on the final delivery date and budget for each of the Transport 21 projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3398/08]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide the required financing to ensure the completion of the Navan rail line; the latest cost benefit analysis information available to his Department on this critically needed facility; the deadline for the completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3397/08]
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate what the Taoiseach said about the general run of this. However, this comes down to what happens when a clear case of worker exploitation comes to the surface. By any standards, â¬4 an hour, less than half the minimum wage, is just out of court. It is exploitation in anybody's language. In these circumstances, where the company running this service sacked its entire Irish...
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach makes it sound as if Irish Ferries have nothing to do with this, as if the company was from Honolulu. Irish Ferries are as Irish as Croagh Patrick. The company may have found a way of distancing itself from Irish law, especially Irish employment law. However, it is the privatised successor of the old B&I ferry company. There have been stories in recent months about the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Last week the Central Statistics Office published the headline crime statistics for 2007, which are the worst for several years. In the last quarter of 2007, headline crimes were 6% higher than the corresponding period in 2006. As Members are aware, headline crimes constitute the more serious crimes to be recorded. In 2007, almost 105,000 headline crimes were recorded in this State, which...