Results 3,081-3,100 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Decentralisation Programme. (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach said that the OECD was not asked for an opinion on decentralisation, which makes the opinion it did express all the more remarkable. That opinion is pretty categoric. The OECD argued that decentralisation would contribute to fragmentation of the public service. It said it would pose significant challenges to modernisation and the ability to achieve an integrated, cohesive...

Decentralisation Programme. (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It has.

Decentralisation Programme. (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I remind the Taoiseach there are three legs to this particular stool. It is not just a matter of what the Government wants and what the staff want or do not want and the issue being resolved in the traditional IR sense between two parties. The third leg of this stool is the public interest. There is a serious question here, and it is what the OECD referred to, regarding whether the...

Decentralisation Programme. (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: What does the Taoiseach want?

Olympic Games. (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will attend the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14619/08]

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The programme last night was shocking. One of the most shocking things about it was that it was not the first time we have heard about this problem. A review of the HSE's child services published in the newspapers on 21 April 2008 reported exactly the same thing. It told us that there was a waiting list of 374 social work cases in the north Dublin area that had not been properly assessed....

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Many people listening to Deputy Barry Andrews this morning would have had a lot of sympathy for the position in which he found himself, as a new Minister of State, having to trot out the same old excuses. The issue which must be addressed is why he was in that situation and why the same old excuses had to be trotted out. Let us have some plain speaking on this matter. When the Taoiseach...

Order of Business (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask three questions about promised legislation. The OECD report, published last week, drew attention to the increase in the number of State agencies. In response, the Taoiseach indicated his wish to see some State agencies merged, amalgamated or whatever. The legislative programme proposes the creation of 11 further State agencies. Does the Taoiseach intend to indicate to the...

Order of Business (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It goes to the District Court.

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount allocated in 2006, 2007 and 2008 for the implementation of the commitments contained in A Vision for Change; the amount of the allocation of the €25 million additional investment in 2006 and 2007 that has been spent on mental health services to date; the outcome of same; the plans for any unspent amount of the allocations...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (13 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 508: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress that has been made regarding an application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin, particularly in view of the reply to this Deputy on 31 January 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18561/08]

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Almost three years ago, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, announced plans to hand over sites of public hospitals for the building of super-private clinics. She argued at the time that there were two reasons for this decision. First, she said if she provided 1,000 private beds in the hospital system a similar number of public beds would be freed up. Second, she said that...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance for the past five years.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I have to wonder what Seán Lemass would have thought of that answer. He was a champion of public service and I cannot see him providing medicine for profit in the way the present Government is doing. I did not ask the Taoiseach for the rationale behind the strategy. I understand the rationale, but I do not agree with the thinking behind it. I did not ask the Taoiseach to repeat that here...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance for the past five or six years.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: This, presumably, crossed his desk and, in fact, he answered Dáil questions about it last year when he told the House that the total cost in terms of tax reliefs for this approach would be somewhere between €400 million and €500 million. That is what it is going to cost the taxpayer.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It is going to cost the hospital system €145 million per year in lost income from insured patients. I ask the Taoiseach again, and I want him to provide answers, where will these hospitals be provided? That is not a hard question. Presumably the Taoiseach has been looking at this issue for the past couple of years. Will he give the House the list of hospitals that will be provided under...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: That is what the Taoiseach said he would do but he is not doing it.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Never mind nursing homes. I will ask about that some other day.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: I asked a simple straightforward question.