Results 2,661-2,680 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Barron Reports: Statements (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share time with Deputy Kathleen Lynch. I am glad to have this opportunity to speak on this issue, particularly as I had requested a debate several times from the Government on this issue. I am not happy that the format is a series of statements rather than a debate on a motion. Many terrible, unforgivable atrocities were committed in the name of Ireland and Ulster over 30 years of...
- Written Answers — Health Service Reports: Health Service Reports (31 Jan 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the publication of the report by Dr. Ann O'Doherty on cancer diagnosis in Portlaoise Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2734/08]
- Written Answers — Cancer Treatment Services: Cancer Treatment Services (31 Jan 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the consideration being given to addressing the transportation needs that will arise in association with the consolidation of cancer services in eight designated centres over the course of the next two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2733/08]
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the work to date of the National Implementation Body. [31973/07]
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the social partners under the auspices of Towards 2016 will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36120/07]
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the proposed timetable for negotiation of a new national agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36121/07]
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach his views on the implications for the successful conclusion of proposed national pay talks of the recent report of the benchmarking group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1483/08]
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: This batch of questions covers the work of the National Implementation Body and the prospects for the next round of social partnership pay talks. Has the Taoiseach heard comments by a number of trade union leaders in recent days to the effect that there is no great point in their entering new talks on pay in circumstances where commitments made under the previous agreement, Towards 2016,...
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate what the Taoiseach said about the general run of this. However, this comes down to what happens when a clear case of worker exploitation comes to the surface. By any standards, â¬4 an hour, less than half the minimum wage, is just out of court. It is exploitation in anybody's language. In these circumstances, where the company running this service sacked its entire Irish...
- Social Partnership. (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach makes it sound as if Irish Ferries have nothing to do with this, as if the company was from Honolulu. Irish Ferries are as Irish as Croagh Patrick. The company may have found a way of distancing itself from Irish law, especially Irish employment law. However, it is the privatised successor of the old B&I ferry company. There have been stories in recent months about the...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Last week the Central Statistics Office published the headline crime statistics for 2007, which are the worst for several years. In the last quarter of 2007, headline crimes were 6% higher than the corresponding period in 2006. As Members are aware, headline crimes constitute the more serious crimes to be recorded. In 2007, almost 105,000 headline crimes were recorded in this State, which...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is a great man for quoting statistics to suit his purposes. He regularly regales us with invidious comparisons between the time he took up office in 1997 and today, particularly in respect of economic matters. However, I remind him that when he entered office, he did so on the promise of zero tolerance of crime, yet the country is now being asked to tolerate levels of crime...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I suppose there is no truth in the rumour that the Taoiseach was in O'Neill's of Suffolk Street this morning for the voting in the United States primary and that he showed both candidates his ballot paper.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I would say the Taoiseach's party is still at that â a few bodies around the place and so on. I asked the Taoiseach at Question Time about the â¬4 per hour being paid to workers on the new Irish Ferries ship. Everybody will agree this is a scandalous rate of pay. What is the status of the employment agency regulation Bill? This Bill was on the pink sheet list last session, indicating...
- Written Answers — Transport 21: Transport 21 (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a full report to Dáil Ãireann on the final delivery date and budget for each of the Transport 21 projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3398/08]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (5 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide the required financing to ensure the completion of the Navan rail line; the latest cost benefit analysis information available to his Department on this critically needed facility; the deadline for the completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3397/08]
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Irish Cancer Society told us yesterday that up to 30,000 cancer cases are being diagnosed in the State each year. This is a significant number in a country of just over 4 million. The society tells us that the numbers are increasing and that, in the next 12 years, we may face a cancer epidemic. On several occasions before Christmas we had exchanges in this House about cancer treatment...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: As I understand it, the pathologist in Cork had left before the investigation began. What we want to establish is how he was engaged in the first place given that his work had been subject to review in Finland. I ask again for an answer in this regard. There is an issue of public accountability, it is not enough just to say he is gone and let us forget about it. We must find out what...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: He also said it will be submitted to the chief executive officer of the HSE. Have I the Taoiseach's assurance that the report will be published?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The other reports to which I referred are the two HIQA reports, one in the case of Rebecca O'Malley and the other in the case of University College Hospital, Galway. The Taoiseach did not refer to those in his response. When does he expect them to be published?