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Order of Business (4 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister come into the House today to address the matter and answer questions on it?

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the establishment of the new Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; the reason for the delay in transferring responsibility for the fisheries sector to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21801/07]

Written Answers — Fishing Fleet: Fishing Fleet (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her proposals for the decommissioning of one-third of the whitefish fleet; the estimated number of vessels to be scrapped and the expected job losses involved; the estimated cost of the decommissioning programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21802/07]

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Local management is blamed.

Offices of the Chief State Solicitor and Director of Public Prosecutions. (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he is satisfied that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has sufficient staff numbers to allow it to discharge all its functions; if he has received representations from the DPP for an increase in staff numbers; if it is intended to sanction the appointment of additional staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20598/07]

Offices of the Chief State Solicitor and Director of Public Prosecutions. (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: My question refers to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. In an article in The Sunday Business Post on 19 August 2007 the Director of Public Prosecutions is reported to have said "his office is struggling to provide advice to the government on major legal issues including proposed legislation due to staff shortages". He goes on to state that he is having difficulty keeping up...

Offices of the Chief State Solicitor and Director of Public Prosecutions. (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: And it is in the Taoiseach's constituency.

Offices of the Chief State Solicitor and Director of Public Prosecutions. (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Has the DPP quantified the number of additional staff in addition to the 14.5 staff he is seeking?

Regulatory Reform. (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date with regard to implementation of the OECD Report on Regulatory Reform. [19881/07]

Regulatory Reform. (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Looking through the OECD report's specific recommendations on regulation, it seems the only matter that has been implemented is the abolition of the groceries order. Otherwise, all we seem to have got are lots of reports about regulating regulation. One such report, as I recall, was by the Competition Authority on the legal profession. Does the Government have any plans to progress new...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I support the suggestion made by Deputy Kenny. It follows on from the suggestion made by Deputy Higgins yesterday that the House should have a debate on the role and function of committees. However, the immediate issue that must be addressed relates to the number of committees to be established, as well as the chairing of those committees. I understand the Taoiseach has proposed to...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Members must wait and see.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Tell him about Beaumont Hospital.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, stated that the HSE is an impossible organisation with which to deal and that he can make neither head nor tail of it. He was a member of the Cabinet that invented, designed, framed and legislated for the HSE and brought it into being. If he can make neither head nor tail of it, what chance has a patient who is...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: We have professional people, namely, consultants, doctors and nurses, in our health service and most people's experience of it, once accessed, is good. The problem is that people are unable to access frontline services as a result of the cancellation or postponement of procedures and because appointments are not being made. One must go through a maze of bureaucracy in order to find out what...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I am fascinated by the manner in which the Taoiseach describes the Government's relationship with the HSE. He seems to think it is the function of Government to advise the HSE or to have a word in its ear with, perhaps, a member of Cabinet then taking a kick at it when it is sufficiently popular to do so. Will the Taoiseach take any responsibility for the HSE? The function of the HSE is,...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach believes his role is the provision of advice to the HSE by way of a word in its ear. I put it to the Taoiseach that the embargo in respect of recruitment did not arise out of thin air. I do not believe the HSE simply decided one morning to introduce an embargo on staff recruitment.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Did the Taoiseach or Government tell the HSE not to recruit more staff? Is he insisting its budget is now more important to him than the patients it serves?

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The current embargo has been in place for a month and is now to be extended for another month. Will the Taoiseach issue a direction to the HSE to recruit frontline staff so that the service can at least continue at whatever unsatisfactory level it operated up to now? If, as the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Ó Cuív, says, it is not working, will the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (2 Oct 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Kenny on this issue and express concern regarding the delay in the formation of the committees of the House. Such committees do not deal merely with legislation, they also deal with important matters such as consideration of the Estimates. Does the Taoiseach intend to schedule debates on Estimates in the House pending the establishment of the committees, which, in due...