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Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: It is why we have provided €740 million in the budget for further education and training-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: -----so young people can get the education and training to equip them to get into the workplace. The place for any young person is not permanently in front of a flat screen television. It is at work or in education and training. This is where they get the best start in life.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government does not blame young people for being unemployed. It wants to help young people to get out of unemployment and into employment.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Every study and examination shows one has a better chance of getting a job-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: -----the higher the level of skills and level of education one has. This is why we have ensured in the budget the school system and the pupil-teacher ratio are protected, so young people get the best possible opportunity while they are still at school, and it is why we have put a focus on activation and using the education and training system to get people into a position where they are in...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: We want good, well-paid jobs for which they have appropriate education and training. This is why we have made, and are making, the changes in our social welfare system, our education and training system and the jobs action plan, so we have a joined-up approach to getting people into employment and providing education and training for them.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: This budget takes us out of the bailout programme. When we think back to where we started from and the worries people had about whether the State would be able to continue making social welfare payments and the extent to which it would continue to be able to make old age payments, pay secondary benefits and so on, being able to get out of the bailout programme without cutting basic social...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Fiction.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: State Gifts (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: It is standard international practice in the context of Ministerial and other High-Level visits to exchange small, representative tokens of mutual appreciation. A decision is made on the type and value of the item to be presented following consultation to ensure it respects the culture of the recipient and any ethics requirements. These items are sourced in Ireland or are of Irish interest....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The question of Ireland’s ratification of the Antarctic Treaty and related agreements comprising the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) has been examined in some detail by the Government Departments and Offices concerned. While the objectives and the achievements of the ATS are of considerable importance and the commitment of the signatories is to be commended, preparation for ratification...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation Issues (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: I am aware of the situation concerning the person referred to by the Deputy. As he is not an Irish citizen it is not possible for my Department to offer him consular assistance. The Greek authorities are under no legal obligation to assist our Embassy with any requests made in connection with this case, as we have no locus standi in the matter. However, on hearing of his detention, and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Paragraph 34 of Strand One of the Good Friday Agreement provided for the establishment of a consultative Civic Forum. Section 56 of the Northern Ireland Act1998 required the First Minister and the deputy First Minister, with the approval of the Assembly, to make arrangements for obtaining the views of the Civic Forum.The Forum was set up in October 2000 and was suspended along with the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation Expenditure (17 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Officers serving at diplomatic missions abroad are required to carry out certain representational duties in line with both the Department’s strategies and mission business plans. Official promotion forms a significant part of the workload of all missions and plays an important part in the achievement of mission and Departmental objectives, including the promotion of Ireland’s...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy knows more about thieves than we do.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: By reducing the adjustment by €600 million, we have made this a much less difficult budget than it might have been. Even so, Ministers still faced difficult decisions, and there are no easy options left in any Department. All the big spending Departments - Health, Social Protection, Justice and Equality and Education and Skills - have been through a long period of retrenchment. As...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: There have been difficult decisions but there have also been important achievements. Education has always been a core priority, and for a third year in a row we have protected the pupil-teacher ratio. This year there have been no cuts to the budgets for schools, and an additional 1,250 teachers will be recruited next year. When we came to office there was no money left to run the schools,...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: It was Fianna Fáil that imposed unilateral wage cuts on public servants, but this Government negotiated an agreement with the public sector trade unions.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: Fianna Fáil would have required an extra €1.5 billion in social welfare cuts over the past three years under its four-year plan.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: The budget we are introducing today requires €600 million less in cuts and taxes because this Government renegotiated the rate of interest on the programme loans, which Fianna Fáil argued could not be done. Fianna Fáil just want people to forget the past and ignore the reality that the difficulties of the last six years were brought down on the heads of the Irish people by...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: They talk here about job creation when they destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs and did nothing to help those coming onto the dole queues. This Government has never made any attempt to hide from the Irish people the scale of our problems, and we have never been in any doubt that the stability we have achieved has required measures which have been difficult for many families. Nobody in...