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Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is a great man for quoting statistics to suit his purposes. He regularly regales us with invidious comparisons between the time he took up office in 1997 and today, particularly in respect of economic matters. However, I remind him that when he entered office, he did so on the promise of zero tolerance of crime, yet the country is now being asked to tolerate levels of crime...

Order of Business (5 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I suppose there is no truth in the rumour that the Taoiseach was in O'Neill's of Suffolk Street this morning for the voting in the United States primary and that he showed both candidates his ballot paper.

Order of Business (5 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I would say the Taoiseach's party is still at that — a few bodies around the place and so on. I asked the Taoiseach at Question Time about the €4 per hour being paid to workers on the new Irish Ferries ship. Everybody will agree this is a scandalous rate of pay. What is the status of the employment agency regulation Bill? This Bill was on the pink sheet list last session, indicating...

Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the work to date of the National Implementation Body. [31973/07]

Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the social partners under the auspices of Towards 2016 will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36120/07]

Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the proposed timetable for negotiation of a new national agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36121/07]

Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach his views on the implications for the successful conclusion of proposed national pay talks of the recent report of the benchmarking group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1483/08]

Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This batch of questions covers the work of the National Implementation Body and the prospects for the next round of social partnership pay talks. Has the Taoiseach heard comments by a number of trade union leaders in recent days to the effect that there is no great point in their entering new talks on pay in circumstances where commitments made under the previous agreement, Towards 2016,...

Written Answers — Health Service Reports: Health Service Reports (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the publication of the report by Dr. Ann O'Doherty on cancer diagnosis in Portlaoise Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2734/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Treatment Services: Cancer Treatment Services (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the consideration being given to addressing the transportation needs that will arise in association with the consolidation of cancer services in eight designated centres over the course of the next two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2733/08]

Barron Reports: Statements (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share time with Deputy Kathleen Lynch. I am glad to have this opportunity to speak on this issue, particularly as I had requested a debate several times from the Government on this issue. I am not happy that the format is a series of statements rather than a debate on a motion. Many terrible, unforgivable atrocities were committed in the name of Ireland and Ulster over 30 years of...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Since the beginning of the year, we have seen a succession of announcements of job losses. This week 330 jobs were lost at Allergan in Arklow, County Wicklow. Before that 220 jobs went at Jacobs Fruitfield, 60 at Britvic in Cork and 400 at the Burlington Hotel. Up to 1,500 jobs are under threat at SR Technics. Construction employment is down by 5.4% with 15,000 more on the live register...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Ethics in Public Office Bill is the Tánaiste's Bill.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Has he asked for Government time to present his Bill to the House? I would understand the Tánaiste's vague answer if it was the responsibility of another Minister, but this is his Bill. Has he asked the Whip for Government time to take Second Stage?

Order of Business (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, it is a question.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This is getting stranger by the minute. Normally a Minister puts pressure on the Government Whip for time for his Bill to be brought to the House. The Tánaiste seems to think it will operate the other way around. The Bill has been through the Seanad already and the Tánaiste now says there will be Government amendments to it. This is the first we have heard of the Government amending...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Tánaiste should come back to us.

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 1: To delete paragraphs 4 to 7 and substitute the following: shares the public concern about the potential costs of the tribunal and, having regard to the comments made by the former Minister for Finance, Deputy Charlie McCreevy, in which he described the legal fees as "astronomical" and "a gravy train", deplores the failure of the Government to take...

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This Government has been responsible for the conduct of the tribunal and for its terms of reference for the entire ten years of its existence. On occasion, the Government takes credit for having brought the terms of reference and modus operandi of the tribunals before the House. Again, the timing is interesting. After ten years during which many witnesses have appeared before the tribunal...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (30 Jan 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Government is planning amendments to the Ethics in Public Office Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2320/08]