Results 4,441-4,460 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: This does not arise under the strategic infrastructure Bill. The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has announced a range of measures to bring forward the dates for direct payments.
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister and the Government are very aware of the difficulties the weather presented for farmers this summer.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I will give a little history and accuracy. The commitment to introduce a property tax was contained in the programme for Government and the respective manifestos of the two parties that now form the Government. When the household charge was introduced, we made it clear it was introduced as an interim measure pending the introduction of a property tax. The details of how that property tax...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. b11, motion re membership of committees; No. 1, Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 Seanad - Second Stage (resumed), to adjourn at 1.30 p.m. today if not previously concluded; and No. 4, National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. b11 shall be...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I welcome the support of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Deputy Catherine Murphy for the children's referendum. I hope we will have a campaign that is measured, reasoned and informative. I am confident that will be the case. Deputy Calleary is right to raise the major challenge we face in getting people into employment and back to work. If I was on the other side of the House this...
- Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: We cannot legislate people back into work so we will not see that reflected in the legislative programme. There was a Cabinet sub-committee meeting on the matter this morning and a range of measures is being implemented, such as the €90 million microfinance loan scheme, the €450 million credit guarantee scheme, the €150 million development capital scheme and the proposals...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I thank Deputy McDonald for her welcome for the publication of the constitutional amendment to enshrine the rights of children, for the first time, in our Constitution. I welcome her support and that of her party for the Government's effort in that regard. I hope we will, collectively, succeed in having the referendum passed and having, for the first time, the rights of children enshrined...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I did not mention Fianna Fáil.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin never listen to the answer and always assume we have said things.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I never mentioned Fianna Fáil in my answer to Deputy McDonald.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: There were no cuts in social welfare rates or cuts in payments to children in last year's budget. Child poverty is an issue the Government is concerned about. As any parent knows, the most prudent thing one can do for children and their future is to ensure there is good management of financial affairs, now and in the future. That applies equally to a household or to a Government dealing...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: That is why the approach of the Government to the national finances, the creation of employment and national recovery is to ensure a sound future for our children and adequate provision for them, adequate education and child support services and adequate income supports. We are committed to that.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: What we saw last year was Deputy Boyd Barrett running around the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----advising householders not to pay the household charge. More than 1,045,000 householders ignored the Deputy's advice and paid the charge. There are, however, large numbers of people who took the Deputy's advice and who are increasingly finding they have more to pay now than they would have last year if they had not listened to the Deputy and some of his colleagues in the first place. It...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I listened to the contribution by the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, to last night's debate, as well as the contribution by the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. I also heard the collective voice of this House, which voted by a margin of 2:1, with every Government Deputy commending the Minister on the reforms that have been undertaken to date,...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and supporting the reform programme this Government is pursuing in health. What we have seen from this Government over the past 18 months is an urgency and impatience to reform our health service with less money and fewer staff than the party opposite had available to it. The country and I expect these reforms to be delivered.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I do so because, while Deputy Calleary may wish to make a political issue of it, out there somewhere-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----there is a mother with a child who has a nasty cough and she is wondering whether she can take that child to the doctor. This is why, for the first time, we have a Government that is committed to introducing-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----a system of universal health insurance with equal access to care for all. Under that system there would be no discrimination between patients on the grounds of income or insurance status and the two tier system of unequal access to hospital care will end. That is what we committed to doing in our programme for Government and that is what we are going to deliver. I have discussed the...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and have confidence that the ministerial team in the Department of Health will do that delivery.