Results 21-35 of 35 for economic sovereign speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Councils: Discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (9 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...’s plans to contribute to recovery in the EU, but this recovery has to be built on stable foundations. Ireland continues to regard the recognition at the June 2012 European Council of the need to separate banking and sovereign debt as one of the key episodes in Europe’s handling of the crisis. The decision resulted in an immediate improvement in market sentiment, but we...

Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...'s ongoing work to promote measures which will allow the European Union to respond effectively to the crisis currently facing the Union, particularly those steps which will help break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns; underlines the importance of measures being prioritised by the Government to foster jobs and competitiveness; and emphasises the importance of deepening...

Address by H.E. Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament (4 Oct 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...are taking on the Presidency of the European Council at a critical time. As the President said, more needs to be done than just budgetary discipline to get our country and our continent out of the economic difficulties we currently face. That is why the decisions made on 29 June, particularly decisions relating to the separation of bank and sovereign debt and decisions on the compact for...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (23 Oct 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...and the momentum they created, they would just have to look at the agenda of this week’s European Council meeting: the digital economy; innovation and services; combating youth unemployment; SME financing; better monitoring of social developments in economic policy co-ordination; and the next steps towards completing a banking union - an issue for this European Council and all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (19 Sep 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...been, quite rightly, a strong emphasis on budgetary discipline over recent times. Obviously, that will remain. We all have to recognise that if the European economy is to recover, there has to be economic growth. In particular, there has to be employment. The challenge of youth unemployment, especially, needs to be addressed. That is clear across Europe and in this country. That is...

Northern Ireland: Statements (5 Feb 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Irish in Britain now has only positive connotations. Engagement with the British Government is increasingly about our bilateral opportunities, shared interests in Europe and internationally. Our economic interdependence is explicitly recognised and valued by both Governments, with €1 billion worth of traded goods and services crossing the Irish Sea each week. We will continue to...

Europe Week: Statements (6 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: ...objective, one which will allow the Ukrainian people to determine their own future and help to build trust and confidence across the country. It is in the interests of the entire region that a sovereign, prosperous, stable, democratic and inclusive Ukraine emerges from the current crisis. Events in Ukraine remind us of the core achievement of the European Union in creating a stable,...

European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ...the euro or the break-up of the eurozone as though that were a practical proposition. It is not. Nor is it a practical idea that any individual country could depart from the zone without enormous economic and social consequences. This kind of simplistic commentary does nothing to deal with the problem. As a result of the summit statement, the implicit guarantees that were part of...

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Irish banking will look like at the end of it. What is being questioned are the two key assumptions on which the programme is built. The first is that Ireland's present inability to access the sovereign debt markets is for reasons that can be resolved over a three year period with fiscal consolidation and bank restructuring, making it possible for Ireland to return to the market by 2014,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (2 Jul 2013)

Eamon Gilmore: ...Agreements. Some provisions of the Good Friday and St. Andrews agreements such as a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, an Irish Language Act and an examination of the future of North South economic cooperation have not yet been implemented but nevertheless there has been good progress on the implementation of the Agreements in recent years. The North South Inter-Parliamentary...

Banking System: Motion (12 May 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ...of credit the constant and predominant aim shall be the welfare of the people as a whole." Or will we pursue a course that risks imposing untold costs on the people as a whole? Throughout this economic crisis, there are two features that have distinguished Labour's approach to the economy. First, we have made jobs our number one priority. Again and again we have made the point that it...

EU-IMF Programme for Ireland and National Recovery Plan 2011-14: Statements (30 Nov 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ...tell us very much about the deal that he has just concluded with the EU and the IMF. I understand there are three sets of documents that have to be agreed and that a memorandum of financial and economic policy has to be concluded with the IMF, with the EU and with the ECB. He has told us nothing about what is to be contained in it and what he has agreed with regard to it. I understand...

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: ...will need to think outside the box about how we address the issue of youth unemployment in the short term. We need to come at it in a number of ways. There are the measures we are taking to generate economic growth and employment in Europe generally. That means, for example, completion of the Single Market measures - we have a long list of legislative measures we need to put through...

European Communities (Amendnment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...contribute to job creation, with youth unemployment a particular priority for us. An important debate is also taking place on what steps are necessary to restore stability to the euro and to take economic and monetary union to a new stage. President Van Rompuy is working to identify the main building blocks that will be needed and the best way in which this work can be advanced. He is...

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Sep 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: ...for any people who have gained new wealth to want to spend it. It is entirely normal to expect consumption and housing output to grow in the wake of an export boom. However, the purpose of economic policy is not growth for its own sake but to provide more employment and higher standards of living. The people who were supposed to be in charge, the people whose duty it was to protect the...