Results 7,421-7,440 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: There would be growth.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: What about the draft plan for the Commission?
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach offered information-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and I believe, in fairness, I should be able to get clarification on it. If the plan is to be published in the week beginning 22nd-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Yes. If it will be published during that week, will it be published in the part of that week which is after the by-election in Donegal? In fairness, a Cheann Comhairle-----
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach said the plan would not be supplied to the Commission until it was ready. My question is has any draft plan been submitted to the Commission? That is the question.
- Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Today is the 20th anniversary of the election of Ms Mary Robinson as the first woman President. It is also the day on which the Irish Human Rights Commission called on the Government to immediately establish a statutory inquiry into the treatment of women and girls in the Magdalen laundries. Does the Government intend to accede to the commission's request to establish such an inquiry?
- Written Answers — Good Friday Agreement: Good Friday Agreement (9 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 295: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised with the British Prime Minister the commitment contained in the Good Friday Agreement that consideration would be given to the introduction of a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland; the response he has received; if he will give a commitment to raise this matter at his next meeting with the Prime Minister; and if he will...
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: When an individual citizen is badly treated or does not get fair play from a public body, the course open to him or her is to take a case to the Ombudsman. The Office of the Ombudsman was established by the Oireachtas to provide an independent means of investigating complaints by members of the public. The idea is that a fair examination of the case takes place and the individual gets fair...
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I suppose the Government would say that, would it not? Everything the Taoiseach said is opinion. Among the matters the Ombudsman was investigating was the position regarding 300 cases that have been taken against the HSE and Department of Health and Children in respect of nursing home care. It is clear from the report that there is a major issue with regard to nursing home care, the...
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: This is the second time within a short period that the Government has sought to undermine the independence of the Office of the Ombudsman, the purpose of which is to stand up for individual citizens and those who have a complaint to make against a public authority. The Government is a serial offender as far as dealing with the bodies that are supposed to stand for people, including the...
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: It was a wide-ranging report.
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: That is not the question.
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: She states it does not co-operate.
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Is she wrong then?
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: That is rejecting the Ombudsman's independence.
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: No, the Government is not judge and jury over the Ombudsman.
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: But that is the point. She did not-----
- Business of Dáil (10 Nov 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Says who?