Results 15,081-15,100 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: However, that does not justify distorting the facts. The facts are that the provision of free GP care for those under the age of six was additional funding which was provided for in the budget last year.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: As the Deputy well knows, that policy is the start of the phased introduction of universal free GP care as part of our policy to transition the health service to one where there is universal health cover. In regard to the general issue of medical cards, as I said earlier, there are now more medical cards in circulation than at any time. Second, everybody in this House, and anyone reasonable,...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: It seems to me that they are all questions Deputy McDonald should usefully put to the Taoiseach. I do not keep the Taoiseach’s diary. I do not know what meetings he did or did not have on Sunday 23 March. With the greatest respect, Deputy McDonald should ask him directly about those issues. What I do know is that the Government took the question of the taping of conversations in...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: The taping of conversations in Garda stations, which is what this is about, is now the subject-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I will get to the meeting in due course. The taping of conversations in Garda stations is the subject of a commission of investigation. It behoves us all to let the commission of investigation, which is being chaired by a Supreme Court judge, to get on with its work. Deputy McDonald asked me to account for what is in the Taoiseach’s diary and meetings he had. I am no more in a...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: If Deputy McDonald has questions, she like everyone else is perfectly entitled to make a freedom of information request and to get the diary of the Taoiseach, my diary or that of any other Minister. That is what is available under freedom of information. With the greatest of respect, if the Deputy then has detailed questions about meetings the Taoiseach, I or any other Minister had, the...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is using a very clever politically-motivated approach to the questioning. If the Deputy has questions to ask the Taoiseach about his diary she should come in here and ask him questions about the diary and he will answer them.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: To answer the first part of the question, I am proud of the decisions the Government has taken to introduce major reforms in the governance of the Garda for the first time since the 1920s. The establishment of an independent Garda authority which will be drawn from a broad swathe Irish society, the extension of the whistleblowers legislation to include gardaí and the ability of...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: Whoever Independent News and Media have done favours for it is certainly not me or my party.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I would go again on this one if I were the Deputy.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: Perhaps I did not hear the Deputy correctly, but with regard to being opposed to a Garda authority-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I just wanted to have an opportunity-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I will take the Ceann Comhairle's admonition and will stick to water.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: First, the local authorities have done a good job in their management of the water resource. The engineers and staff of the local authorities who have worked on water down through the years certainly have done a creditable job. However, there were 34 different water authorities nationwide and just as one would not, these days, have 34 different local distributors of electricity or gas, as...
- Order of Business (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. a20, statements on the Guerin report and No. 4, Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings in respect of No. a20 shall, if not previously concluded, adjourn after the opening speeches and the following arrangements shall apply: (i) the opening speech of the...
- Order of Business (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: First, it has been the normal practice that in the week of an election or a referendum, the Dáil does not sit. This is to enable all Members of the House to participate in the election. As Members are aware, after Easter the Dáil returned one week earlier than was originally scheduled. The number of days on which the Dáil sits has increased. The Dáil is scheduled to...
- Order of Business (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: The Whips can consider the proposal and decide if that is possible.
- Order of Business (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I expect the report to be delivered shortly.
- Order of Business (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: The children (amendment) Bill is due this session.
- Order of Business (15 May 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not have a publication date for the international children Bill nor a publication date for the trust Bill.