Results 161-180 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 56: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the conclusions of the recent NESC report on housing, that an additional 73,000 social housing units must be built by 2011; the plans he has to increase social housing output to this level; the way in which it is intended to meet increased social housing targets in the larger urban areas, in which...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I am afraid the Minister of State did not answer the question I asked. Will he address the recommendation in the NESC report that this country will need an additional 73,000 local authority social houses between now and 2011 and that an additional â¬500 million to â¬600 million will be required each year for the social housing programme? Does he accept the target of an additional 73,000 is...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: They are very slow readers.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: This is the third report on housing that the Minister of State has received during the past year. Before the NESC report there was the report from the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution regarding building land and the Goodbody report on land hoarding. Every time I asked the Minister of State a question about housing during the past year, he replied that he was awaiting the...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not agree.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: There is a significant difference between the estimated figure of 73,000 and the rate of output achieved by the Government.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I have one final question. The Minister of State has said this is a matter for the Government. When does he expect to bring his proposals arising from the NESC report to Government?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Does this mean the Minister of State has read the report?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: It sounds like the Minister of State has read it and not agreed with its recommendations. Now he seems to be trying to find a way to avoid implementing them.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: That is an energetic plan.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: We will return to this issue.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister should give an answer.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: There is our answer.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm the statement he made on a recent television programme (details supplied) that it is intended to proceed with the construction of a municipal waste incinerator at Poolbeg, Dublin; the planning or approval process which is envisaged for this process; the approximate date by which the...
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Minister for his reply which sets out the procedures that will need to be followed to allow an incinerator to be built in Poolbeg. From his answer, can I take it that the Minister is confirming what he recently told Ursula Halligan on her television programme that the incinerator in Poolbeg will proceed?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: We know all that.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: From the Minister's reply, can I take it that no political decision has been made by the Minister or the Government not to build the incinerator in Poolbeg?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Will it be included within the remit of the legislation to fast-track infrastructure projects?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has announced that he will shortly introduce legislation to fast-track infrastructural projects. Has a decision been made, as reported, to exclude the Poolbeg incinerator from the remit of that legislation?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Based on what the Minister has said, am I to understand that the long planning process and the licensing process which will inevitably surround the proposed incinerator in Poolbeg would be completed before we see the legislation on critical infrastructure?