Results 12,661-12,680 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: What is being proposed is that the cost of a public bed in a public hospital should be chargeable to the insurance company where there is insurance involved. As we all will be aware, the private health insurers charge for everything - the consultant, the anaesthetist and, if it is a private bed, the bed - but at present the hospital cannot charge for the use of the public bed, and that is...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That is not what I said.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I did not say that the increases in health insurance premiums are exaggerated. The increases in health insurance premiums for families are staggering and there is a major issue in that regard. I said that the charging for public beds in public hospitals as proposed will yield €60 million this year on a total payout of €2.2 billion by the insurance companies. No matter how the...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----to make a political point. Let us be clear about what I am saying. There are issues the insurance companies need to address. There are issues relating to their cost base and there are issues relating to the very high level of other charges that are charged to the insurance companies, including hospital charges, charges by professionals, etc., which need to be addressed. Anybody who...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----it provides a comprehensive update on the progress achieved to date and sets out the main actions.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It does not matter what it is called.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It sets out the progress made to date and the main actions to be done.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: A policy paper, Money Follows the Patient: A Policy Paper on Hospital Financing, was recently published. The Government is making progress on the policy of implementing universal health insurance. It was never claimed that it was something that could be introduced overnight. The transition to universal health insurance is-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----a programme that will take time to achieve as the Deputy well knows.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There would be no breathing space if the Government had followed the prescription advocated by Sinn Féin.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: When the Government was formed, the Sinn Féin leader proclaimed that the IMF should go home and take its money with it.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: If that had happened there would have been five months' money left to pay for all public services in circumstances where at the stage when we came into government the country was not able to borrow on the private markets.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not know what it would have recommended that we would do for money. We now have some breathing space because of the way the Government has managed the country's finances and the economy. We are making a recovery, which was very adequately demonstrated this week with the numbers of new job announcements. The creation of jobs is at the root of economic recovery. Another 100 jobs were...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That is the strategy the Government has been advocating at a European level and I am glad to see that more are taking heed of that and that European policy overall is adjusting more to the strategy we have been advocating for some time.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not need any lecture from Deputy McDonald-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----on the important work carers do.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have some personal experience of it, so please do not give us this type of pompous lecture.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The work carers do is hugely important and valued, which is why the Government, unlike its predecessor, has published a carer's strategy. This is why Ministers in the Government work to support carers and will continue to do so. I am glad to hear Deputy McDonald state, and it is the first time I have heard it from Sinn Féin, that she now accepts the target of reducing the deficit to...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----because Sinn Féin has not been saying this.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It will be interesting to see what proposals come from Sinn Féin in the run-in to the 2014 budget. I look forward to seeing them.