Results 11,101-11,120 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I asked the questions of the Secretary General of the Department of Health and the CEO of the HSE.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I have told the Deputy the answer both gave me, which was that there was no ministerial involvement in the selection of individual sites.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: There is no secret about the fact that there were differences between the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, and the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly. At all times I supported the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, in what she was seeking to do in the Department of Health.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: There were a variety of meetings held, including one involving the Taoiseach, me, the Minister for Health and the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall. That took place prior to the summer and we put in place a working group representative of the Taoiseach and my office to address some of these issues and make progress on them. The working group has been making progress since then. My...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is not waffle to the parent of a sick child who has to go from Billy to Jack under our health system.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Our priority as a Government is to get primary care centres provided, built, staffed and up and running.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Members of Sinn Féin were among those who constantly asked, day in and day out, where is the stimulus package and why is there not one. We have produced a stimulus package of €2.25 million and have taken the opportunity in that package to include the provision of primary care centres in order that we can provide in local communities a centre where somebody who is ill or who has a...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: What I was involved in, and am proud to have been involved in, was the production of a financial package, despite all the financial difficulties this country has, which provided for the building, staffing and resourcing of primary care centres and our pressing ahead with that. I recently nominated Deputy Alex White to be Minister of State to take charge of that and I am confident he will...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: On the criteria, I did not see the Deputy make any complaint about the selection of the additional primary care centre in Deputy Adams' constituency. There was no complaint about that. I did not hear any complaint from the Deputy.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: That is one of the 15.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I did not hear any complaint from Deputy McDonald about what criteria were used to decide on the selection of Grangegorman in the Deputy's constituency to develop a new third level education facility, which we are proud to do.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The key issue is that the Government is pressing ahead with the reform of the health service, with the provision of primary care centres which is what matters to the people and to those who want to see a better health care system. We are providing the funding for that and that was done in the stimulus package. With regard all the allegations, implications and so on that somehow there was...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not being disingenuous.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The issue of mortgages, mortgage arrears and the difficulties people have in meeting their mortgage commitments is very much a top priority for the Government. That is why, as the Deputy will know, we brought forward the personal insolvency legislation, Report Stage of which is due to be taken in the House shortly. It is why we have put in place a range of measures to support people in...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not propose to take advice from the Deputy about how the banks should be run because I recall the advice he gave the previous Government when he said it should make Sean FitzPatrick the governor of the Bank of Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Ross does not have a particularly good track record on this. I will also not come into the House to defend the practices of banks, now or in the past. What the Government is doing in regard to our banking system is to ensure, first, we have a banking system that is fit for purpose for our economy. It is a work in progress and there are a number of dimensions to it, one of which is...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is difficult work but it is work in which we will succeed.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I am answering them but the Deputy does not like the answers.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 5, Europol Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in regard to the Assaults on Emergency Workers Bill 2012, the Second Stage of which shall be considered tomorrow, the following arrangements shall apply: (i) the opening speech of the main spokespersons for Fianna Fáil, Sinn...
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report, the Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012 will be in the House next week and that will give Members an opportunity to debate the report and it is also intended to hold a debate reasonably soon on the economic situation- it is a matter for the Whips to agree the timing of it - and this can obviously include the report.