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

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...and jobs, especially among young people. We must strengthen the European Council follow-up on this point and we will continue to do that in Brussels this week. The other main element under the economic policy that this meeting of the European Council will address is President Van Rompuy's interim report on strengthening economic and monetary union. As the Taoiseach said, if the...

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...

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

Eamon Gilmore: ...to receive the loan money we require. Our success in meeting those targets - in fact, we are ahead of target in some areas - means we will be able to exit the programme on time and recover our economic sovereignty. Our achievement in this regard has restored confidence in this country among international investors. That can be seen in our continuing strong performance in the area of...

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...

European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...European and Irish goods that serve markets around the world. As well as adopting the new compact, this week's European Council will also consider President Van Rompuy's report on how to strengthen economic and monetary union. In his report, the President has identified the essential elements on which we need to work to ensure a strong, stable and durable economic union, namely, greater...

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...

Referendum on European Stability Treaty: Statements (28 Feb 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...by referendum and seek approval for the treaty. In the weeks ahead there will be ample opportunity for debating the detail of the treaty provisions. In the end, this will come down to a vote for economic stability and economic recovery. When this Government was elected a year ago Ireland was in the depths of a political, economic and financial crisis. In the past 12 months the situation...

European Council: Statements (24 Jan 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...a balanced outcome that marks significant progress on the two major issues on the table. I hope it will be possible to finalise work on the intergovernmental treaty and thereby further strengthen economic policy co-ordination within the euro area. Let us be clear, however, that the treaty is not an end in itself, it is a key element of a larger package of actions designed to respond to...

International Agreements (17 Jan 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: As Deputy Mac Lochlainn stated, there are three elements to the economic crisis that we are facing, and all three of those elements are being addressed. On the banking dimension, as the Deputy will be aware, the ECB agreed prior to Christmas to make a very substantial amount of money available over a three-year period to the banking system throughout Europe. On the dimension of jobs and...

European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Eamon Gilmore: ...their vital national interests. That is, of course, exactly what the Taoiseach will be doing in Brussels tonight and tomorrow. Similarly, the Taoiseach is not in the business of handing over our economic sovereignty - quite the contrary. This Government intends to be the one that retrieves our economic sovereignty, which has been severely diluted by dint of being dependent on funding...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...