Results 12,241-12,260 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and those who go out and work on the roads, and clear the drains.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: These are the staff who we respect. That is why-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That is why the approach that this Government has taken is to sit down with their representatives-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----to negotiate the requirement to reduce the pay bill by €1 billion. That is the requirement.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That reduction is something that will be negotiated with the representatives of the staff who work in the public services. When that process of negotiation is completed, their representatives - their unions - will put the outcome of the discussions to a ballot of their members, who will then decide democratically whether they want to accept it or not. That is the right approach to take....
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----should allow that process of negotiations to continue and to conclude and then let the outcome be put to the members by way of ballot.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: All over this country individuals who work in the public services, whether teachers in schools or staff who work in the hospitals, local authorities or any area of the public services, voluntarily join a trade union-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and they elect their trade union leaders. Those trade unions sit down with Government to negotiate pay agreements, conditions of employment, how the interface between management and employee operates in practice. That is what this Government believes in. We believe in sitting down and negotiating with the representatives of those who work in our-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The only matter of which we can be sure is that those discussions are underway. There is no point in anybody here in this House trying to second guess what is going on in the negotiations or trying to predict the outcome.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The only matter of which we can be sure about the outcome of those negotiations is whenever they are concluded Deputy Boyd Barrett will accuse, as he always does, the representatives of the employees of selling them out.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 6, Finance Bill 2013 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 7, Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, to adjourn at 7 p.m. tonight, if not previously concluded. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 5.45 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn on the conclusion of...
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: By the time we reach 2.30 p.m. today, there will already have been 12 hours of debate on the Finance Bill.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is a Bill which is giving effect to the measures in the budget on which there was previously a debate in the House. We feel that the time provided is adequate and as the House will be aware, there is a requirement that the Finance Bill is passed within a certain period of time after the budget.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I join the Deputy in congratulating the Garda in Limerick on the success of its work. The criminal justice (proceeds of crime) Bill will strengthen the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau regarding forfeiting the proceeds of crime. Consultations are taking place with the Criminal Assets Bureau on that legislation. It is not possible to give a precise date for its publication because the...
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Finance (Local Property Tax)(Amendment) Bill is to provide for a number of improvements to the existing legislation. I would have thought that the Deputy would be in favour of many of those improvements, including, for example, the exemption for homes affected by pyrite and the arrangements proposed for social housing whether it is local authority housing or the voluntary housing...
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This is a Government that wants to improve the legislation we have.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is scheduled to be debated in the House on Friday, 1 March and that is a reasonable arrangement. The agreement reached yesterday will now need to be considered by member states. The Government will consider that agreement. No decision has been reached on the date for the budget.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Construction Contracts Bill is due to be in Committee early in March. The Bill on the local development boards is due this session.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The children (amendment) Bill will be this year. The landlord and tenant Bill is intended for early next year.
- Order of Business (21 Feb 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: On the Children First Bill, there is ongoing consideration of the views of the Oireachtas committee, including significant policy, operational and legal issues. It is intended to be published this session.