Results 301-320 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: Yes. It is awaiting Committee Stage. Obviously, it is a matter for the committee to set the date for that.

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: I think I know where Deputy McGrath is going with the question. If there are issues in respect of the preparation of amendments I will ask the Minister for Finance to get back directly to Deputy McGrath. The second question related to the review of medical cards. This issue was discussed at Cabinet on Tuesday and work is being done on it. I understand work being done on it today and I...

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand a public consultation process is taking place in respect of the Wind Turbine Regulation Bill and it is due to be finalised in the third quarter of this year. Obviously, that process must be completed before the Bill proceeds to Committee Stage. The Protected Disclosures Bill is awaiting Report Stage.

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: My understanding is that there is no change in the plans to complete that Bill this session. The information I have is that it is to be on 11 June. I have no information to the contrary and, therefore, I will work with that. The list circulated yesterday is not the complete list. The intention is that the Bill will be completed.

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: The preparation of the heads of the Bill were approved by Cabinet at the end of October 2013. The Minister of State, Deputy White, is still doing some work on it. I do not have an actual date for its publication but it is being progressed.

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: As I understand it, the Bill is due to be in committee next week. Obviously, if Deputy Ó Fearghaíl wishes to propose amendments, that is the place to propose them and they will be addressed at that stage. Deputy Ó Fearghaíl referred to domestic violence. Work is under way to reform and consolidate the Domestic Violence Act 1996. It is planned that the reform of the...

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: The maritime area and foreshore (amendment) Bill is due this session. The committee issued a report on the pre-legislative consideration of the Bill on 13 February. The ordering of business for the House is a matter for the Whips. From what I can see, the difficulty of the House in respect of its business has more to do with the failure on the part of Opposition parties and Deputies to...

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand the report is imminent.

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: The first Bill is due next year. The second Bill is listed for this session.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: Those proposals must then be brought to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: I look forward to those who spent the past number of years picketing and holding protests against the building of social housing in different parts of the country facing up, in their newly-held positions as members of local authorities-----

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: -----to their responsibilities and stating where local authority housing is going to be built.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: They should state that they want to build 100 houses on one site and a development of council houses on another site.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: I look forward to seeing members of local authorities who have consistently objected to proposals relating to the building of social housing bringing forward their own proposals in respect of such housing. The latter will then be addressed by the Minister of State with responsibility for housing.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: I assure Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan that we will ensure there will be no delays. If she wishes to provide details of particular cases to me, the Taoiseach or the Minister for Justice and Equality, we would be very happy to follow up on them. One of the issues which arose as a result of this entire episode is the retention of records. The Government agreed that the Minister for Education...

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: Obviously, I do not know the details of the individual case to which the Deputy refers. However, I will ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to follow up on it.

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 7, National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed) and No. 6, Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil on its rising today shall adjourn until 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 4 June 2014.

Order of Business (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: I understand the Betting (Amendment) Bill is at committee.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: More importantly nothing is ever done about it. The difference this time is that the action is taken with an independent Garda authority being established and a different way of the Garda Síochána reporting to the public about what is a service to the public.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2014)

Eamon Gilmore: It is past time that the structures that were established in an entirely different era in the 1920s were changed. They are now being changed with a new Garda authority, whistleblowers legislation that will cover the Garda Síochána and investigations that will get to the bottom of any issue of wrongdoing in the Garda Síochána.