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Business of Dáil (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I would also like to object to the manner in which the Taoiseach proposes we should deal with the long-heralded reshuffle of the Cabinet, which is to be announced today. He has proposed that the House should resume at 3.15 p.m. in order that he can make the announcement and the leaders of the parties can make 15-minute statements in the House. That will account for an hour of the debate. ...

Business of Dáil (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Legislation may be required if the structure of Departments is to be changed. In any event, these changes will require some teasing out by the Members of the House. I refer to issues like the functioning of Departments, the division of various responsibilities, the appropriateness of linking a particular policy area with another area, the cost of changing Departments and the manner in which...

Business of Dáil (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The rights of the elected Members of the House, who represent the people, to comment and to express an opinion on the composition of the Cabinet and the structure of Departments is being sacrificed again for the headline, the picture and the public relations spin. This is a signal that this is more about public relations than about good government.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach in his speech used the verb "change" almost 20 times and that is not counting the number of times he used the term "reconfiguration". This is what change looks like, but this is not change. This will not change anything in the life of a single family or household in this country this evening. At best this is change delayed and change delayed is change denied. This is still a...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: -----is put on a few remoulds and a few squirts of spray on the rust of a clapped out model that has a 1970s registration.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not change.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not change we should be talking about in this respect but scrappage.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: We need to get rid of this Government. The country needs a fresh start, not just some kind of, as the Taoiseach called it, reconfiguration of what we have already.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: There are only a handful of people in the country who really care about this exercise in spin with which we have been presented this afternoon. They are the people who have been selected for bigger office and a bigger car. I congratulate the Ministers elect, Deputies Carey and Killeen, for whom I have personal regard. This Government does not care about the purpose of governing; it cares...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: One of the extraordinary aspects of today's announcement is what the Taoiseach did not do. Why is the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, still in office? By any standards, she should be removed from office. While I acknowledge she has been a good Minister in other Departments and has made a major contribution to public life, her record as Minister for Health and Children has...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes, the competition is very tough. In 2002, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Micheál Martin, who was then Minister for Health and Children, entered into a commitment with the National Rehabilitation Hospital that if the hospital sold nine acres of land to an adjoining company, a new national rehabilitation hospital would be...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: They are still waiting for the Minister, Deputy Harney, to sign off and approve that tender so that the hospital can be built. My constituency can do without three Ministers although I wish the best of luck to all three. However, we cannot do without the building of that hospital. Interestingly, when the Taoiseach reviewed the programme for Government last summer he removed any reference to...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If they vote for the re-election of this Government they cannot tell the people in Thurles, Killarney or Seán McDermott Street that they oppose the Government. They shoulder the responsibility for having kept it in office far longer than it should be and far longer than the people want it to be there.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 319: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to concerns regarding a nursing unit (details supplied) in County Roscommon, namely the complete suspension of its day care service due to staff shortages; if she will make a commitment that funding will be approved for staffing of the day care service as a priority; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 551: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is being deducted three days of their jobseeker's benefit after completing a community employment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12335/10]

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No substation manager in the ESB is responsible for the collapse of the Irish economy, nor is the ESB responsible for the collapse of Irish banking. Anglo Irish Bank was at the heart of what went wrong in Irish banking and the economy and we ended up with the State having to take ownership of the bank. I was surprised to learn yesterday that 70 staff in Anglo Irish Bank had received a pay...

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach give some indication as to how much further Irish taxpayers will be asked to dig into their pockets and how much more they will pay over to a bank which has apparently decided to give a pay increase to its staff?

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is an incredible reply. I asked for simple information, namely, how much are the pay increases, how much losses Anglo Irish Bank has made, even in ball park terms, and how much more will we be asked to put into the bank. The Taoiseach indicated that we will be given this information in due course and that pay and other issues related to the bank are matters for its management and board...

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is head of the Government that now owns a bank which, having apparently made €14 billion losses in the past 15 months, has just announced it has given a pay increase to some of its staff. The Taoiseach cannot tell us the size of the pay increase and will not tell us the size of the losses, yet he comes into the Chamber and tells us that this has nothing to do with anything,...

International Agreements. (24 Mar 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation in the Copenhagen summit on climate change. [48557/09]