Detecting touch events on controls within UIPageViewController in Monotouch

Question

I have several buttons positioned on my ViewController within the area covered by the UIPageViewController's GestureRecognizers. Taps in this area are consumed by the UIPageViewController and never reach the buttons below.

I've read iPad - PageViewController - Show next view controller on button click and UIPageViewController Gesture recognizers and understand the principle but have no prior Obj-C experience and am struggling to recreate these solutions in C#.

Could somebody please provide an example of how this is done in MonoTouch?