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- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. Sinn Féin cannot come in here one day moaning about unemployment, yet come in the next day lashing any proposal to get people into employment. This is about providing jobs for graduates and addressing the serious issue we have of the numbers of people who cannot find employment at all, particularly graduates. In this case, in the nursing profession there...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Please. There are 1,000 additional jobs being created for nurses. Opposition Members may try to say that there is some other agenda, but it is simply about providing employment opportunities for people who do not currently have them.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The priority for this Government is to get people into employment. We have an unemployment rate which is far too high. The biggest problem the country is currently facing is the issue of unemployment. People are finishing school and coming out of colleges but cannot get work. That is an enormous problem for the individuals concerned, their families and society. We must address it and are...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is over and above the existing complement of people who are employed in the health service, which includes 35,000 nurses. This brings the total to 36,000 nurses. They are additional nurses in our health system. It provides employment opportunities for young graduate nurses who would not otherwise get them.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Of course, the Government respects those working in our health services. They are doing a fabulous job in very difficult circumstances, as there is increasing demand on our health services. They have to do that work with less resources and, in many cases, with fewer people. This proposal is about jobs. Our top priority is getting people into employment and thus getting work experience....
- Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 13, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Agreement to Improve Tax Compliance and Provide for Reporting and Exchange of Information concerning Tax Matters (United States of America) Order 2013 (back from committee); No. 14, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Exchange of Information Relating to Taxes (Montserrat) Order...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Discussion with Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Chairman asked about enlargement. This week there was an informal meeting of European affairs Ministers which was attended by the candidate countries. The prospective candidate countries, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, had a meeting with the Presidency and the Commission. That clearly demonstrates the role Ireland intends to play in engaging with not just candidate...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: At a time of very high unemployment, when many graduates are unable to find employment on leaving college, the priority must be providing employment opportunities. This will provide employment opportunities for 1,000 graduate nurses. The current complement of nurses in the health service is approximately 35,000. This additional 1,000 will bring the number to 36,000. Additional posts are...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----in this country in our health service, which I think is better from the point of view of the graduate nurses themselves. It is also better from the point of view of the health service. We need to be reasonable about this.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This means looking at a situation where there has been a restriction on recruitment throughout the public service, as we know. There is an employment control framework. These additional jobs are being created outside of this employment control framework. There is no question, as the Deputy alleged, of downgrading the nursing profession. This is not being done.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have the height of regard, as does the Government, for nurses and what they do and for their profession.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This is 1,000 additional jobs.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: As for the point on the parliamentary question, it is not unreasonable to wait until the closing date for applications before one states how many people have applied.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I repeat that we have an unacceptably high level of unemployment in this country. This level of unemployment is particularly severe among young people. One in four young people between the ages of 16 and 25 in this country are out of work. There are far too many graduates in different professions coming out of college who are unable to find employment in this country. Many of these young...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: In respect of the discussions on the Croke Park agreement, these discussions are best conducted by those involved in them. The discussions are being led by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. They are ongoing and it is a matter for the participants in these discussions on the trade union and the employer sides to put whatever issues they wish to put on the table.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is not about driving down wages. There is no reduction in the pay of nurses. The pay for nurses is not being-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin comes here week after week and whatever the issue is, it makes some allegation that adds more and more to it.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There is no reduction. Get the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Let us stick with the facts. There is no reduction in the pay of nurses.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Nurses' pay is not being reduced. What is being proposed-----