Results 8,461-8,480 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State was on the committee.
- Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has said that Departments have been asked to identify the resource implications and to identify the legislative implications of the proposed wording. Has any Department flagged resource or financial implications, or legislative implications that are causing difficulty?
- Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: From the Taoiseach's reply do I understand that there will not be a referendum on children's rights until the Government has settled in its mind on the resource and financial implications, and until it has published and put through the legislation the Taoiseach has now identified as arising from such a referendum?
- Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The only way I can interpret the reply from the Taoiseach today is that it is new. The Taoiseach is now saying there is a range of issues, including financial and resource implications. There is a body of legislation that does not yet appear to have been worked out or considered. It appears the Bill is a long way from being agreed by the Government and published. Therefore, the only...
- Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is now, in effect, telling the House that because there is such a range of resource and financial implications for legislation that must be prepared, etc., the Government has dropped the referendum on children's rights. That is a very sad day for the Government and the House, and it is certainly a very bad day for children of the country.
- Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not playing politics with it either.
- Constitutional Amendments (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: There was all-party agreement on the matter.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I also object to the imposition of a guillotine on the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010. It never ceases to amaze me that issues which affect the poorest people in the country are always brushed aside in this House when Bills are rushed through and guillotined. Such issues do not get the kind of media headlines that other issues tend to get. Legislation that will affect...
- Leaders' Questions. (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I understand that the live register figures for the numbers unemployed for the month of June will be published later this morning. Does the Taoiseach have those figures and if so will he inform the House on the number of people who are now on the live register?
- Leaders' Questions. (30 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: That is the highest number of people ever unemployed in the State. It is 300,000 more than were on the live register when the general election took place in May 2007. It is 100,000 jobs lost each year that the Government in its present form has been in office, and 2,000 jobs lost each week. This is not counting the number of people who have left the country, as immigrants who have gone...
- Public Service Reform (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach the progress made regarding the implementation of the document, Transforming Public Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23285/10]
- Public Service Reform (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Transforming Public Services last met. [23286/10]
- Public Service Reform (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish to ask a couple of questions arising from the Taoiseach's long and comprehensive reply. He set out a range of activities and bodies, including a programme office, a Cabinet sub-committee and an implementation body under the public service pay agreement. Will the lead Department in respect of the transformation of the public service be the Department of the Taoiseach or the Department...
- Public Service Reform (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: To clarify the role of the implementation body, my understanding was that the programme of transformation across the public service was incorporated into the public service agreement and would, therefore, be subject to the terms of the agreement. Is my understanding in this matter not correct? In the 2009 budget the Government announced the amalgamation, re-organisation and reconfiguration...
- Order of Business. (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The European Commission today approved the extension of the credit institutions eligible liabilities guarantee scheme to the end of the year. Perhaps the Taoiseach will indicate if the Government intends bringing this matter before the House at any point, by what means this will be done and if it will happen before the summer recess. It is now several months since the Joint Committee on the...
- Order of Business. (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: That is a load of nonsense. There is not a comprehensive report. The matter is a simple one. There is agreement on the wording. We are continually told work on the matter is continuing. The only work continuing is on the part of Government to delay holding this referendum for as long as possible. It beggars belief to see what order of priorities this Government has that a referendum on...
- Order of Business. (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: As we all know, the incomes of most households in this country have fallen over the past couple of years. The Government led us to believe that the cost of living dropped in line with the fall in income suffered by families and households. The publication yesterday of the EUROSTAT figures on prices is revealing. They indicate the price of food in this country is 29% higher than the EU...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I think the Taoiseach is living in a wonderland regarding this issue. I acknowledged in my previous question that food prices have decreased by 6.3% between the beginning of 2009 and May 2010 but they increased again in May. The same pattern can be discerned in respect of bread and cereals, meat and milk, cheese and eggs. There is no getting away from the fact that prices here are out of...
- Order of Business. (29 Jun 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I have counted 11 guillotines for this week. The Labour Party has consistently objected to-----