Results 12,561-12,580 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Nobody is saying everything is fine.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: As I have said, in the health service there are always strains and demands and the question is how best to manage them. The Minister for Health and the HSE are managing as best they can. If the Minister needs to turn somewhere for advice on how to manage better it will not be to Deputy Martin because he, of all people, was not able to manage the health service in the best of financial...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: As everybody is aware just over two years ago this Government inherited the biggest financial and economic crisis ever to face this State. We determined that we would fix the problem. We have made a lot of progress in that respect. We are now 85% of the way there. There is a piece remaining to be completed, approximately €3 billion in savings in public expenditure. The pay and...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Ó Caoláin gives the Sinn Féin game away too easily.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin wants to play politics with this and the party has wanted to play politics with this from the beginning. Its spokespersons were out condemning the deal before they had even read it and-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Now, in the wake of the result of the ballot-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----Sinn Féin Members are more interested in how much of a hit they can score against the Labour Party than in either public sector workers or the interests of the country.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Ó Caoláin said that I have some experience. Many of my colleagues in the Labour Party and I have some experience of dealing with these matters. Let me give him the benefit of that experience.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is not the first time that an offer on pay or a proposed agreement has been rejected by trade union members.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: What happens when that happens is that the trade unions concerned talk to the employer - in this case, the Government - about the outcome of the ballot.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: An assessment is made of the reasons involved and thought is given to finding a way forward. The problem that the negotiations were aimed at addressing has not gone away. Deputy Ó Caoláin might want to wish it away. That is the kind of fairytale, fantasy type of economics Sinn Féin promotes.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin might think it can go away but it will not go away. The reality is additional savings have to be made and that reality has not been changed by the outcome of the ballot. What will now happen is there will be calm, reasoned reflection on the ballot.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government will consider what has to be done, and while we are doing that, Deputy Ó Caoláin might tell us whether he would legislate for the 100% cut on public service incomes in excess of €100,000 that Sinn Féin proposed.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party has always stood for, and stands by, working people.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Fianna Fáil Members are in no position to laugh after the condition they left the country in. Whatever they do, please do not add insult to injury. They left the country in ruins. Please do not scoff at what they have done or at the job we have done to restore the country.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The first thing that working people need is a job and that is why we have to fix this country's economy, its reputation, its banking system and its finances in order that we will get the investment in the country to sustain jobs and to create more jobs. Second, the Labour Party has always believed in decent public services in this country and in access to health and education and the other...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and that is why we have to fix the state of the public finances we inherited in order that public services can be ensured into the future and in order that those who work in our public services and whom we respect can have the job security they deserve.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government put a set of proposals developed in negotiations with the trade unions. Those proposals have not been accepted. We now need to look at this situation with the trade unions that represent those employees. It is a time for that to be done in a calm and reasoned way and it is not a time for Deputy Daly or anybody else to play politics with it.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This country has a huge problem of unemployment. It is not true, however, that the number of people at work reduced last year; it increased.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not-----