Results 13,801-13,820 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I can give an assurance the reduction in the payment to RTE will not result in any diminution to people with the free television licence. It is intended-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----to move to a household charge for television purposes and people with a free television licence will continue to have a free payment of the new charge. There is absolutely no diminution in this. With regard to what the Government has done in the social protection budget, the Government has done €1.7 billion less than what Fianna Fáil undertook to do when it was in...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Not only are the figures in the four-year plan but the way in which it proposed to achieve them is in the four-year plan, and it proposed to achieve them by cutting rates-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and this includes, I presume, the cutting of old age pensions and other payments. We have now produced a budget which gets us out of the bailout without cutting basic social welfare payments.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: No young person who is currently on the reduced rate of payment will have this payment reduced. They will continue to be on the payment they are on. The change we have made to unemployment payments to young people must be seen in the context of what we are doing about the activation of young people into employment and into education and training.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is the Government's view the place for young people is at work, in job experience or in education and training. This is the best way for them to get out of unemployment.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Let me be clear we do not believe any young person should find himself or herself in a situation that he or she goes onto an unemployment payment at the age of 18 and are still on it at the age of 25.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is official Labour Party policy to get young people into jobs and into education and training so they are in a better position to take up employment opportunities. This is official Labour Party policy and it is the policy of the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This is why in the budget we have provided an additional €500 million for employment creation measures. This is why we propose to employ additional teachers in our classrooms, and additional gardaí will be recruited for the first time in many years.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is why we have provided €740 million in the budget for further education and training-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----so young people can get the education and training to equip them to get into the workplace. The place for any young person is not permanently in front of a flat screen television. It is at work or in education and training. This is where they get the best start in life.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government does not blame young people for being unemployed. It wants to help young people to get out of unemployment and into employment.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Every study and examination shows one has a better chance of getting a job-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----the higher the level of skills and level of education one has. This is why we have ensured in the budget the school system and the pupil-teacher ratio are protected, so young people get the best possible opportunity while they are still at school, and it is why we have put a focus on activation and using the education and training system to get people into a position where they are in...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We want good, well-paid jobs for which they have appropriate education and training. This is why we have made, and are making, the changes in our social welfare system, our education and training system and the jobs action plan, so we have a joined-up approach to getting people into employment and providing education and training for them.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: First, let us spare a moment to take a look at Sinn Féin policy, because in 2011, after this recession began, its leader said the IMF should go home and take their money with them, and he suggested we should default.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: In order-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: No; take your medicine now. Take your medicine.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: What that would have resulted in is a deficit of €21 billion, and we would not have been able to borrow.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: A deficit of €21 billion would have resulted in cuts in the budget of 37%.