Results 4,161-4,180 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Public Service Reform. (16 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has done a very good job of describing the process by which the Government addresses public service reform in respect of the various consultations, reports, studies and different groups that are set up to do this, that or the other on public service reform. However, the Taoiseach has not told Members what are or what are likely to be the outcomes. I asked the Taoiseach to...
- Public Service Reform. (16 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: ââfor several minutes before eventually being sent full circle. The alternative is to look up the website. Incidentally, the Taoiseach has not answered this part of the question either. The idea was there would be a single website containing all public service information. It was to have been a one-stop shop, at which those who wished to get information about public services could...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I have listened carefully to the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Kenny and, when taken with his replies to questions on the economic situation in the past couple of weeks, I have come to the conclusion that the Taoiseach and the Government do not know what they are doing regarding the banks. The Government's handling of the economic situation is downright incompetent at this stage. Since the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Following the Taoiseach's answer I am none the wiser about what the Government is going to do about recapitalising the banks. The answer is more or less a repetition of the statement on Sunday night. I ask the Taoiseach to outline the timetable. He spoke about the banks coming back with their proposals in early January. Everybody is aware, at least in general terms, of the current state of...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (16 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to be able to implement the promises in the programme for Government on increasing the threshold for qualification in respect of parents of children under six years and parents of children with an intellectual disability under 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45511/08]
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (16 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way she will ensure that hospital consultants who continue to work under their existing contract spend the appropriate time caring for their public patients and use only the appropriate percentage of beds in public hospitals for their private patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45499/08]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 518: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow has had their application for a higher education grant from Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council turned down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46239/08]
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach seems to think that things are fine in the health service. Yesterday there were 390 people on trolleys in accident and emergency units. That is just ten less than the number who were on trolleys on the day that the Minister, Deputy Harney, announced an emergency in accident and emergency in 2006. On Wednesday last, the HSE published a service plan which stated that there would...
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: ââis a Government that is politically and economically dysfunctional, that is adrift and that is now staggering exhausted to the Christmas break. One thing after another the Taoiseach is not getting right. He has not got the banks right. He told us on Sunday that there was going to be a â¬10 billion rescue plan and when I asked him direct questions on it yesterday, he could not answer...
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach's problem is not the Opposition.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach's problem is the Government that he is leading. It is not doing its job.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach received more co-operation from the Opposition than any other Government in a long time and, frankly, a lot more than he deserves.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: He received co-operation from the Opposition on Lisbon, when a problem arose last week in regard to the pig industry and generally over the past several months in respect of the economy.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government received the Opposition's co-operationââ
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: As far this party was concerned, we have turned out to be absolutely right in terms of the criticisms we made. What the Taoiseach is seeking, and what he will not get, is a silent Opposition.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: He does not want a Opposition at all. He wants silence.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The one thing that constrains me in saying what I really want to say about the incompetence and the lack of drive, initiative and effort on the part of the Government, is that I might cause damage by doing so.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: That is the biggest constraint that I have.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I will be absolutely clear lest there be any doubt. This Government is appalling. It is a deadbeat Government.
- Leaders' Questions. (17 Dec 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: It is not able to lead this country out of the problems it created in the first place.