Results 11,381-11,400 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Education and Skills has given that role to one body, namely, SUSI, which is being run by the CDVEC and has responsibility for the processing-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----of student grants for first-time applicants. Student grant applications for existing grant holders continue to be processed by local authorities and VECs.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Education and Skills is on top of this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Regarding the impact on students, potential concerns among those whose grants have not yet come through and possibly being put at some disadvantage in terms of participating in college, doing exams and so on-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----the Minister has directed the HEA to ensure the universities and institutes of technology, ITs, do not put any student whose grant has not yet come through at a disadvantage.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: There were 66,000 completed applications for student grants this year, of which 18,000 have been completed and awarded, provisionally awarded or refused.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: SUSI is awaiting documentation on 21,000 applications. The remain 27,000 applications are being processed. Additional staff have been provided to accelerate the processing, which is proceeding at a rate of 800 applications per day. CDVEC's chief executive officer, whose authority now has responsibility for this matter, is due to appear before the Joint Committee on Education and Social...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is dealing with this urgently. The problem of delays in the processing of student grants is not a 2012 problem.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The problem of student grants not being processed and delays at local authority and VEC levels in the processing of student grants has gone on for years. Some local authorities were far worse than others. This is the first time the system of processing student grants has been rationalised into a single body. There have been delays in the processing of student grants. I do not think it is...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Martin should listen to the answer.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: He keeps chattering and twittering instead of listening to the answer I am giving. If he is serious about the issue-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----I am quite happy to give him the answer.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Martin should at least afford me the courtesy of listening to the answer I am giving him. The Minister for Education and Skills has already made it clear through the Higher Education Authority, to the universities and the institutes of technology that no student whose grant has not yet come through should be disadvantaged in terms of participating in college, attending classes or...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----because the Minister for Education and Skills has already dealt with that. Additional staff have been provided to speed up the processing of grant applications. They are now being processed at a rate of 800 a day. There is, however, an outstanding problem, and there is no point ignoring it. Some of the application forms are incomplete and information is still required.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: If the application form has not been fully completed, it must be completed and the full information given to the City of Dublin VEC so it can complete the processing of the application.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not think it is acceptable that former executives of Anglo Irish Bank or any of the other banks which had to be bailed out with Irish taxpayers' money should be on pensions of more than €0.5 million per year nor do I, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance think it is acceptable that executives of the current IBRC should be on salaries of that scale. That is why the Minister...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: This Government did not have to wait for either Fianna Fáil, which is responsible for the bank bailout, or Sinn Féin, which supported the bailout, to raise this issue in the House.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: We are already dealing with this issue. It is not acceptable to the Government or the people of this country that these levels of either pensions or salaries should continue to be paid. That is why the Minister for Finance has already been in discussion with the IBRC about this. He has already undertaken the review. He wrote to both the Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil spokespersons to...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----he was taking on that last summer. He is continuing with that work. I assure the Deputy that this issue is being, and will be, dealt with. We inherited a problem here. The problem is that Fianna Fáil approved contracts for those people and we have to find a way of addressing that issue. It is not insignificant that although the parliamentary question was asked by the Fianna...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett that people have suffered as a result of what has happened to this country, the way Fianna Fáil mismanaged our economy and the way the banking system was dealt with. People have suffered loss of employment, loss of businesses and the loss of services in education, health and elsewhere. They are justifiably angry when they see some of the people who were...