Results 11,041-11,060 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: There were no cuts in social welfare rates or cuts in payments to children in last year's budget. Child poverty is an issue the Government is concerned about. As any parent knows, the most prudent thing one can do for children and their future is to ensure there is good management of financial affairs, now and in the future. That applies equally to a household or to a Government dealing...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: That is why the approach of the Government to the national finances, the creation of employment and national recovery is to ensure a sound future for our children and adequate provision for them, adequate education and child support services and adequate income supports. We are committed to that.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: What we saw last year was Deputy Boyd Barrett running around the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----advising householders not to pay the household charge. More than 1,045,000 householders ignored the Deputy's advice and paid the charge. There are, however, large numbers of people who took the Deputy's advice and who are increasingly finding they have more to pay now than they would have last year if they had not listened to the Deputy and some of his colleagues in the first place. It...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I will give a little history and accuracy. The commitment to introduce a property tax was contained in the programme for Government and the respective manifestos of the two parties that now form the Government. When the household charge was introduced, we made it clear it was introduced as an interim measure pending the introduction of a property tax. The details of how that property tax...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. b11, motion re membership of committees; No. 1, Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 Seanad - Second Stage (resumed), to adjourn at 1.30 p.m. today if not previously concluded; and No. 4, National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. b11 shall be...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I welcome the support of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Deputy Catherine Murphy for the children's referendum. I hope we will have a campaign that is measured, reasoned and informative. I am confident that will be the case. Deputy Calleary is right to raise the major challenge we face in getting people into employment and back to work. If I was on the other side of the House this...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: We cannot legislate people back into work so we will not see that reflected in the legislative programme. There was a Cabinet sub-committee meeting on the matter this morning and a range of measures is being implemented, such as the €90 million microfinance loan scheme, the €450 million credit guarantee scheme, the €150 million development capital scheme and the proposals...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The hurling tickets are even more sought after.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Yes, there is. Deputy McDonald, if I can put it kindly, has a habit of misrepresenting the facts.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: She talked about Government initiatives failing. She said the same when we introduced the jobs initiative. It was targeted at the tourism industry.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Listen to the facts. The Deputy should stop making it up.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: There are 10,500 additional jobs in the tourism industry as a result of the jobs initiative. It is working. The Deputies should give a little credit where things are working. The Bill to provide for the phased extending of a publicly funded GP service without fees is on the A list. It is a priority for the Government and it will be published this session.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I can confirm that it is our intention to have a debate in the House on the economy and provide for an opportunity for Deputy Boyd Barrett and other Members to set out their proposals.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The business for next week is settled. The referendum Bill will be taken but the Government Chief Whip is considering this debate and will arrange time for it.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government is pursuing a programme to provide support for small and medium-sized businesses and that includes the setting of lending targets by the banks and a variety of ways in which credit can be extended to them to enable them to create jobs, to which I referred earlier. The Minister for Finance, in his Budget Statement, set out the Government position on legislation relating to...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill was published in August and will be introduced in the Seanad. I understand it will be taken this session but we have to await the Seanad's deliberations on it before it comes to the House. The content can be debated then.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: No.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Very happily.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: This does not arise under the strategic infrastructure Bill. The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has announced a range of measures to bring forward the dates for direct payments.