Results 2,441-2,460 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Let us have a free vote on the issue.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Kenny. I return to the Taoiseach's suggestion that we have a free vote on this matter. What is happening in the health services and the anxiety and pain that have been caused to so many patients, particularly in recent weeks, should not be subject to a whip. Individual Deputies should be able to express their points of view on the health service and the performance of...
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I was going to ask if the Minister for Education and Science would circulate copies of Kingstown Republican: A Memoirââ
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I did not think she would and judging by what I read in the book, the Taoiseach would not either.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I see I am ruled out of order.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: It should be named the unfair deal.
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government has expressed its concern at the detention of opposition leaders and spokespersons and members of the judiciary, the suspension of the constitution and the declaration of martial law in Pakistan by General Musharraf. [30877/07]
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the current position in Pakistan; if he has plans to assist over the period leading up to the upcoming election and the elections themselves in January 2008 to provide observers or other such means, on its own or with the cooperation of the European Union, in order to ensure free and fair elections. [30878/07]
- Written Answers — Honorary Awards: Honorary Awards (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of citizens broken down by reference to each quarter in the past 10 years, who have approached himself or the Government in circumstances where a title of nobility or of honour was proposed to be conferred on the citizen by another State; the number of such cases in which the prior approval of the Government under Article 40.2...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (27 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 508: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department has assigned a lower scale of home tuition grant reimbursement for tutors of pre-school aged children than those who deal with primary and secondary school children in view of the fact that all of these tutors need to meet the same high standard of qualification and are performing the same type of work; if...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: On 17 September, the Health Service Executive announced new reimbursement arrangements for community pharmacists under the GMS and community drugs schemes. These new pricing arrangements are due to come into effect next Saturday, 1 December. In response, pharmacists have threatened to withdraw from dispensing medicines under the GMS scheme. If that goes ahead next Saturday, medical card...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I welcome the fact that the HSE has deferred the 1 December deadline. That will be a great relief for many medical card holders, pensioners and others who have been concerned about their access to prescription medicines. There was a great deal of worry about it. I hope the process under way will result in a new agreement on pricing arrangements which will avoid problems arising in the...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: It was devised to get around the problem of the Competition Act. I welcome the fact that the immediate threat of problems with prescriptions for medical card holders on 1 December has been lifted, at least for the time being. However, the core problem with the Competition Act needs to be addressed. I ask the Taoiseach again to consider seriously the Bill tabled by the Labour Party.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the costs incurred by the communications unit of his Department in terms of salaries and expenses for the first ten months of 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29417/07]
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Ireland.com.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Health and Children stated that, until last Wednesday, she did not know of the review of ultrasounds in Portlaoise. Sometime beforehand, newspapers had reported that such a review was being carried out. Did the communications unit miss that story as well or was it communicated to the Department of Health and Children? My difficulty in this regard and with the Taoiseach's...
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I did not take down the Taoiseach's reply verbatim, but I do not imagine it to be very different from his reply on 26 September, which I have before me. In that reply, he stated: The communications unit works an 18 hour day based on a flexible rota of three working shifts. The unit is staffed by six established civil servants, five of whom are seconded from other Departments. According to...
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: The unit tots up the number of times Professor Crown or any other critic of the Government appears on radio and sends the information to the Departments so that the political apparatchiks who do not want to see the critics anymore can say that to the news editors.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: They are doing what they are told to do by the Taoiseach.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: It is not an attack on civil servants. The Taoiseach is abusing the Civil Service.