Results 261-280 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: No, I did not. The Cooke report is very clear. It is an independent examination by Mr. Justice Cooke of the issues relating to the alleged bugging of the GSOC offices. This arose when there was a newspaper article which stated as a fact that GSOC offices had been bugged by Government or high level intelligence gatherers. It went through the type of surveillance it felt was taking place....
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: The composition of the banking inquiry committee was intended to be a chairperson, three Members of this House from the Government side, three Members from the Opposition side and two Members of the Seanad, one of whom was to be from the Government side and one from the Opposition side.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: That is the proposed membership of the banking inquiry committee.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: What happened was that Fianna Fáil and others participated in a parliamentary stroke in the Seanad to end up with a situation-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: -----where the two Members of the Seanad would be from the Opposition side of the House.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: Frankly, that is playing political and parliamentary games with the establishment of an inquiry which the public wishes to see up and running as quickly as possible. Members opposite should cop on to themselves, work with the Seanad, have the members of the inquiry team appointed, have a balanced committee as intended and let it get on with its work.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I remind the Deputy that the issue of top-ups arose because the Minister for Health and the Government took an initiative to deal with it. It was the Minister for Health, in the first instance, who sought an audit of section 38 and section 39 agencies to examine the levels of pay of the top personnel in these agencies. The audit brought to public attention the top-ups being paid by some of...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: First, it is precisely because the Government believes there should not be two standards that it initiated the audit of section 38 and section 39 agencies to ensure they complied with public pay policy. The Government's position is that there must be compliance with public pay policy. I acknowledge, of course, the very strong feelings among many people who work in the public service about...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: Let us establish the facts first.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I know that the facts and the truth are matters the Deputy does not bother with because she jumps to conclusions straightaway, but let us establish the facts first. That is the reason I suggest the Deputy table a question about the individual contracts to the Minister for Health. I am sure he would be able to respond to it. We should be clear about the policy issue. The Government...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not sure where the question was in that statement but the Government wants a banking inquiry to be established and working-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and getting to the bottom of what happened to the banking crisis in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I am disappointed at what has happened over the past number of days regarding the appointment-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: I am disappointed at what happened in the past number of days in respect of the appointment of the Seanad members of the banking inquiry.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: My understanding was that the intention was that two Seanad Members would be appointed to the inquiry-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: -----one from the Government side and one from the Opposition side. It appears that what happened was a bit of slick parliamentary footwork was performed-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and we ended up with two Opposition Members proposed to be nominated as the Seanad members of the inquiry. If the Government had come in either to this House or the Seanad and had pulled a stroke like that-----
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: ------to produce two Government nominees and no Opposition nominee, we would have a lot of noise from the Opposition about it.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: The leadership of Fianna Fáil should use------
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)
Eamon Gilmore: -----its good offices to ensure the membership of the banking inquiry - we have decided the Dáil members - drawn from the Seanad should be representative of the Government and Opposition as we normally expect.