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Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a resolution of the House.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Operations: Defence Forces Operations (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will make a statement on his recent visit to Sweden to attend the final ground exercise for the Nordic battlegroup. [34155/07]

Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will make a statement on his address to the RACO biennial delegate conference in Kilkenny on 27 November, 2007. [34156/07]

Programme for Government. (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: These questions cover a wide area. My question deals with the implementation of the civic life section of the programme for Government. One of the subsections deals with ethics and investigations. This year the Government published the Ethics in Public Office (Amendment) Bill 2007, the purpose of which was to provide that where a Member of the Dáil or Seanad proposed to accept a...

Programme for Government. (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Does the Government intend to go ahead with it?

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: At the beginning of this session the Government indicated that it intended to publish 17 Bills in this session. It has managed to date to publish three of those, two of which are the Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill, which simply transferred the roads functions from the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to the Department of Transport arising from the...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: ——if the Government is not able to get out its own legislative programme. What is wrong?

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: This is quite astonishing. Why is the Government not able to get out its own Bills?

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: They have been asked before.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: You have.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Five or six years ago this House set up a body called the Irish Human Rights Commission, which is an independent body to oversee the way in which the State complies with its human rights obligations. Yesterday, that independent body issued a report which states the Irish State is not complying with its human rights obligations to prevent torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: There is a fundamental difference in having a system of inspections and the system the Taoiseach has just described. What the Government is saying is essentially that if anybody in County Clare hears that somebody is being moved through Shannon for the purposes of torture and they go into their local Garda station and report it, the Garda will then go and inspect the aeroplane. If one has...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: What the Human Rights Commission is seeking is that there would be a system of inspection, that aircraft going through Shannon would be inspected by the Garda, or whoever else, to see whether anybody is being moved illegally through Shannon for the purposes of torture. Since 2005, the Human Rights Commission has been asking the Taoiseach to do that, but he has not done so. That is why the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: There will be no evidence without inspectors.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a State body.

Programme for Government. (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the progress to date with regard to implementation of the civic life section of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30822/07]

Programme for Government. (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I want to pursue further the question raised by Deputy Ferris on the proposal to establish an independent electoral commission. This was the subject of a specific commitment in the programme for Government, that an independent electoral commission would be established to oversee the way in which we conducted elections and to assume some of the functions of the Standards in Public Office...

Programme for Government. (12 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Is it the Taoiseach's intention to consult the Opposition parties on the proposed changes in the composition of the Standards in Public Office Commission, as was the practice?

Written Answers — Capitation Grants: Capitation Grants (11 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the significant discrepancy in the funding for the voluntary secondary schools compared to other schools in the post-primary system having regard to the fact that almost 60% of all second level students attend the 400 voluntary secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Capitation Grants: Capitation Grants (11 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she has taken to ensure that equal funding for all schools in the post-primary sector would be achieved within the next two budgets of 2008 and 2009 in line with the commitment given in the programme for Government 2007 to 2012; the amount, based on the present numbers of pupils in the post-primary system, of additional...