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Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The first motion is the replacement of two Deputies on two different committees, namely, the replacement of Deputy Michael McCarthy by Deputy Willie Penrose on the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions and the replacement of Deputy Colm Keaveney by Deputy Willie Penrose on the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. As Deputy Kelleher well knows, members of the...

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I have given the Deputy the explanation.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: It is very simple. Stop the claptrap. Members of committees are nominated to those committees by political groupings. Each political party and grouping in this House reserves the right to make its own nominations and to replace nominations as and when each party sees fit. That is what we are doing here. It has always been done by the introduction of a motion and always taken without...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government is very much aware of the increase in the costs of fuel and the pressure that is putting on households, families and elderly people. This is the reason a range of supports is in place to support people with the cost of fuel. One thing that is clear regarding fuel, energy and gas is that we in Ireland are receivers. We are receivers with regard to the cost of fossil-based...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There are occasions in this House when allegations are made that are seriously over the top.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The allegation the Deputy has made in this particular case falls into that category.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: No, let us concentrate on dealing with the problem.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The issue of fuel costs is a matter of which the Government is aware-----

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: -----and which it is seeking to address. I have set out for the Deputy the way in which we are seeking to do that.

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: We have a choice with this report. We can take it now and use it as ammunition in whatever case we want to make, whether a political case around the budget or the delivery of resources, a case in the arguments that go on within the service about whether resources should go here or there, or in arguments between one institution and another. We can use it in those ways or we can take this...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There should be no issue of exoneration at any level regarding this issue. This is not a time for anybody to be exonerating themselves. I have been through the report which is very good and detailed, albeit using some of the guarded language that these reports use. I believe it gets to the nub of where the problems are. At every level actions need to be taken to address what is in this...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: One thing here matters above any other consideration of political debate or different interests in the health service lifting chunks of this report perhaps to support or defend a case that they are making. Over and above any of that has to be safety for the patient and for women who are admitted to our hospitals during pregnancy. In this particular case, the report stated there were 13...

Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I join Deputy Kelleher in expressing again my sympathy and that of the Government to Praveen Halappanavar and his family on the death last year of his wife, Savita. The report published yesterday makes difficult reading for them and everybody with an interest in maternity services. I do not believe there is a woman in the country who does not put herself in that bed on St. Monica's ward and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Service Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Last week I launched a new Irish passport. The passport combines the latest security technology with selected imagery in order to produce a passport which represents Ireland, our culture, our history, and our people. The book includes original artwork and photographs which were commissioned solely for use on the Irish passport. For security design reasons images were selected which could...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The renovation work taking place at the Embassy of Ireland in Paris is primarily to upgrade the Consular offices located in the basement which have little or no natural light. It is necessary to carry out this work at this time as the offices have not been upgraded since 1992 and, as a result, are in serious need of renovation to meet current health and safety standards for a work-place and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Remuneration (10 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There is no officer in my Department who is paid a salary in excess of that of the Taoiseach.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (9 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware that a group of thirty activists affiliated with Greenpeace entered a Gazprom platform off the Russian coast on 18 September and were subsequently detained by the Russian authorities. All have now been charged with the serious crime of piracy. While there are no Irish citizens involved, the situation has been monitored by my Department and the Irish Embassy in Moscow. We are not...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation Expenditure (9 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Ireland’s missions abroad perform a wide range of functions in pursuit of Ireland’s foreign policy interests. These include representing and advancing government policies with other States and in international organisations, in particular the EU and the UN; economic, trade and cultural promotion; frontline consular and passport services to Irish citizens overseas; engaging...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Job Creation Numbers (9 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government's Trade Strategy, Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy, identifies high level targets for growth in exports, investment, tourism and jobs for the period to 2015 and feeds into the targets set in the Action Plan for Jobs. These targets have been identified by the relevant Departments and the State Agencies under their aegis. In overseas markets, my Department and our...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Data (9 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: To date, a total of eighteen age-related retirements have taken place in 2013 in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A further eight officers will retire by the end of 2013 i.e. six age-related retirements and two under the cost neutral Early Retirement Scheme. A total of fourteen officers are scheduled to retire in 2014, on reaching mandatory retirement age. No officer has so far...