Results 14,321-14,340 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: To be clear, the issue of the top-up payments in the section 38 agencies is a matter with which the Government already has dealt and continues to deal. I understand that the representatives of the Mater hospital - which has a role in the superannuation arrangements with the CRC - are due to appear before the Committee of Public Accounts on 19 December.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Let us be clear on this matter. The HSE conducted the audit and established that the top-up payments were being paid. That was done at the request of the Minister for Health. The Government and the Minister for Health are determined to ensure that there will be transparency on these payments so that the public, who contribute to charities, can have confidence that their money is going...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The ESRI published two reports yesterday although Deputy Donnelly referred to only one of them. Every year it publishes a report on what it terms the distributional impact of the budget measures, based on what it calls the Switch model. The ESRI also published a second report which studied the impact of social transfers on people at risk of poverty. In the report on the distributional...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----on working people. We managed to take 330,000 people out of the universal social charge. We reversed the cut in the minimum wage and in this year's budget we are providing free GP care to children aged under six years. The second ESRI report looked at the impact of social transfers in reducing the risk of poverty and the findings are unambiguous. Social transfers, including...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am sorry the Deputy is missing his child's Christmas play but can I predict what the Deputy will not miss? I think he will not miss the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party away day in 2015 before the general election because I predict that-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----that is where he is heading.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I predict that Deputy Donnelly will be wearing the Fianna Fáil jersey at the next general election and between now and then-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----he will do Fianna Fáil's work for them by coming in here and saying, "I am an Independent and I am quoting a very worthwhile independent document in order to criticise the Government".
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have the answer for Deputy Donnelly. The party that I believe he will be a candidate for in the next general election cut social welfare rates, cut the minimum wage-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and put low paid people into the universal social charge. This is the Government that has taken low paid people out of the universal social charge, reversed the cut in the minimum wage, reinstated the joint labour committees and protected people on core social welfare rates.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Order of Business is No. 10a, Supplementary Estimates for Public Services [Vote 3] - back from committee; No. 10, the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad] – motion to instruct committee (resumed); and No. 21, Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad] - Report and Final Stages (resumed)....
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Yes. This issue was dealt with at the health committee this morning. I believe the discussion lasted over an hour and a half.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The issue here-----
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----as is normally the case when issues like this come back from committee, is that they are taken without debate on the floor of the House.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The legislation in respect of the introduction of free GP care for children under the age of six is being prepared by the Minister of State, Deputy White, and by the Minister, Deputy Reilly. We expect to have that legislation before Government in the very near future. In respect of the National Treasury Management Agency (No. 1) Bill, the intention is to publish that this session. We...
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: First, the HSE service plan is not delayed. There is a process for considering the HSE service plan, that is, it is submitted to the Minister for Health. That has been done. There is a period of 21 days within which the Minister for Health considers the plan. That 21 days runs to Monday next, 16 December, and the Minister for Health will have made his decision on the service plan by then.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is laid before the House. There is a formal process for doing it. Second, the Deputy asked about the Charities Bill and the establishment of the charities regulation authority. The full implementation of the Charities Act, including the establishment of the authority and the register of charities, had resource implications and had to be examined in the context of the urgent need to...
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: My understanding is that the Water Services (No. 2) Bill is in the Seanad. It is expected it will be completed in the Seanad early next week and that it will come into this House. The issue of the taking of the Bill in the House is something to be considered by the Whips.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have heard the submission which Deputies Broughan and Stanley have made about sitting on Friday and the Whips will consider that.
- Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Arrangements for a debate on the policing plan can be discussed by the Whips-----