Results 1-10 of 10 for flu speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (28 Jun 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...respect of all absences due to illness; supervisors are required to hold sick leave review meetings with staff in cases where sick leave is a regular occurrence; subsidised vaccinations against the flu virus are made available to headquarters staff every autumn and; subsidised general medical check-ups are offered to headquarters staff every second year. Details of the sick leave taken by...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: ...is informing the President to accept their resignations and indicating whatever arrangements are being made either for the appointment of new Ministers or the transfer of their functions. We have a flu epidemic. We have people lying on trolleys in hospitals, and the Minister for Health and Children has taken to the hills. We have flights being cancelled in Aer Lingus, and the Minister...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the swine flu H1N1 vaccination programme has concluded; the amount of money spent on the vaccine programme; if there are excess vaccines that will not be needed; if so, if it has been possible to reclaim the cost of same from the manufacturers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20191/10]

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Fáil has mismanaged it in recent years? Does he still hold to that view? Does he still believe it has nothing to do with him and that it is something which has appeared like the Mexican swine flu, out of the blue and having nothing to do with the way the Government puffed the property bubble and did not face up to the problems in the economy? The Taoiseach tells us again today that he...

Order of Business (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is important that the House and members of the public are kept informed by the Minister for Health and Children of up-to-date information on the spread of the swine flu, as it is known. There is considerable public worry about this issue. People get information about developments on matters of this nature through the media and on international websites, blogs and so on. It is very...

Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ...not able to get credit. I have met people who are concerned about new reports in respect of cancer services, this time in Waterford. More recently, people are concerned about the possibility of a flu epidemic. They wonder what action the Government is taking to deal with the cases that have emerged and the tests being undertaken. They are worried there might be a spread of this flu. In...

Commemoration of the Ninetieth Anniversary of the First Dáil (20 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ...was very hard. Europe had just been ravaged and re-divided by a bloody, senseless, imperialist war which claimed the lives of 50,000 of our fellow Irishmen. Another 10,000 people had died from flu in the previous year. Hundreds of thousands lived in slums and abject poverty. The general election of 1918 was the first when all adult men and almost all women got the vote. Two out of...

Seanad: Commemoration of the Ninetieth Anniversary of the First Dáil (20 Jan 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ...was very hard. Europe had just been ravaged and re-divided by a bloody, senseless, imperialist war which claimed the lives of 50,000 of our fellow Irishmen. Another 10,000 people had died from flu in the previous year. Hundreds of thousands lived in slums and abject poverty. The general election of 1918 was the first when all adult men and almost all women got the vote. Two out of...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (29 Mar 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her Department's strategy in dealing with the threat of avian flu among the wild bird population. [9584/06]

Written Answers — Poultry Industry: Poultry Industry (25 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has satisfied herself that adequate procedures are in place to protect against the spread of avian flu here especially in view of the recent warning from the Food and Agriculture Organisation that the virus causing bird flu may be impossible to eradicate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17378/05]