Results 181-200 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Does it then follow that every project, incinerator, road or whatever that is already in a planning process will not be covered by the infrastructure legislation? The newspapers have reported that at the insistence of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the Government has decided to take the proposed Poolbeg incinerator out of the scope of proposed infrastructure Bill. I will...
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: That is why I am asking.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: From what the Minister is saying, it looks like or seems it will be built before the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform leaves office.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Not if we have anything to do with it.
- Housing Policy. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: How many reports on housing policy is the Minister of State considering?
- Housing Policy. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Four.
- Housing Policy. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Not while the Minister of State is in power.
- EU Directives. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Does the Minister accept that those buying houses this week and who have bought them are not aware that from 4 January 2006 they will, if selling those houses, be required under European law to produce a certificate on their energy efficiency? Does he accept that since the directive will apply to houses that are to be purchased or let after 4 January next year, houses currently under...
- EU Directives. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: As we are so often told in this House the country is producing record numbers of houses, which we all welcome. It does not make sense that so many houses are being built, and will be, which will fall short of the requirements for energy efficiency labelling. I appreciate that it takes time to put the legislation in place and regulations arising out of it, and so on, but some steps should be...
- EU Directives. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister might require the vendors, particularly of new houses, to provide an information notice or warning to prospective purchasers that after January next the dwellings will require an energy certificate if they are to be resold. That is only fair. People buying houses should know this.
- House Prices. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister of State repeat that please?
- House Prices. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I invite the Minister back to this planet because whatever planet he is on, it is not the case that houses prices are going down, as he seemed to infer in hisââ
- House Prices. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I know what the Minister of State said. He said "The rate of house price increase". I know what he means by this, namely, that it is 10% now, for example, and was a higher percentage last year. However, the message the Minister is trying to communicate every time he refers to this is that house prices are coming down, whereas they are not. I want to focus in particular on Dublin because, as...
- House Prices. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State will be hearing from him again.
- House Prices. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State is living in cloud cuckooland.
- House Prices. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: One quarter of them are holiday homes.
- Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 87: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the serious concern expressed by the Institute of Engineers of Ireland regarding the failure to meet targets set out in the national development plan, particularly in regard to housing and waste management; the steps he proposes to take to deal with these delays; if he will...
- Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he intends to make a decision on the application submitted to him from the roads authority for the carrying out of a programme of archaeological works and mitigation measures in regard to the proposed route of the M3 through the Tara-Skyrne valley; if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns...
- Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 293: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to make a decision on the application submitted to him from the roads authority for the carrying out of a programme of archaeological works and mitigation measures in regard to the proposed route of the M3 through the Tara/Skryne valley; if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns...
- Written Answers — National Development Plan: National Development Plan (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 294: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the serious concern expressed by the Institute of Engineers of Ireland regarding the failure to meet targets set out in the national development plan, particularly in regard to housing and waste management; the steps he proposes to take to deal with these delays; if he will...