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- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: A 37% cut in the budget-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: A 37% cut in the budget------
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: A 37% cut in the budget amounts to a cut of €85 a week in the old age pension. Let us cut out the spoof here.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: In regard to the issue of jobs for young people-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: In regard to young people, this Government is creating 3,000 additional jobs per month.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We want to accelerate that, which is why we have provided an additional €500 million in this year's budget - in order to get more jobs into our economy.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Second, we want to see young people in employment or in education and training. That is why we reached agreement on the youth guarantee, the idea behind which is that no young person should be more than eight months either out of the labour force or out of education and training. We have provided-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We have provided the funding in this budget to enable that youth guarantee to be started and to be put into operation.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The position of the Government in regard to young people is this: employment, or education and training.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: To be fair to Sinn Féin, they spent a lot of time out of this House so they are making up for lost time.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am true to form.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am here in this House quite a long time. I make no apology for engaging with any Member of this House, as I have done over the years-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----in robust debate, but I have never stooped to making an attack on anybody's character. Deputy Daly should not invite me to reciprocate.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Daly asked me where we got the idea for our approach to youth unemployment.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We have developed over a period of time the idea of a youth guarantee. The level of youth unemployment in this country and in a number of other European countries is too high and we want to get it down. We will get it down by creating employment, by providing work experience opportunities and by providing the education and training that equips young people to get into employment. We...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The approach we are taking in the budget is, first, to provide additional funding for measures that will increase and accelerate, we hope, the rate of job creation in the country, which will provide employment opportunities for young people. Second, it is to ensure there is sufficient funding for the education and training sector so there will be opportunities for young people to get...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I did answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I can show where the jobs are. We are creating 3,000 additional jobs a month. The Deputy can look at the list of job announcements made every month by IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland to see the additional jobs being created. We have made provision in the budget to accelerate the number of the jobs that will be created. Many of the measures are targeted at the construction sector, in...
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. c7, motion re referral to select committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the Arms Trade Treaty; No. d7, motion re Standing Orders 19, 20, 21, 23, 27, 27A, 28, 33, 35, 36, 38, 41, 56, 57, 82A, 83, 88, 117, 117A, 121, 123A, 124, 125 and 141A. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. c7 shall be decided...
- Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There has been much talk about Dáil reform and it is time to do something about it. There were eight formal and informal meetings between the Whips to discuss the proposals on Dáil reform. I attended the meeting to which Deputy Martin referred and I thought it was a good, productive exchange. At the end of the meeting, there was a willingness to give the changes a go, see how...