Results 2,001-2,020 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: They are not. The State says they have a housing need.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: The taxpayer is subsidising their landlords.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: To subsidise landlords.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: It is to provide social housing.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is out of touch. It is time to go.
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 67: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of planning applications submitted to planning authorities, for each quarter since the beginning of 2005 to date in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13258/07]
- Written Answers — Housing Completions: Housing Completions (5 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 84: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of dwellings completed here from 1999 to date in 2007; the number of dwellings delivered to date under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13257/07]
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007: Second Stage (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share my time with Deputy O'Sullivan. The Labour Party supports this Fine Gael Bill this evening. I congratulate the party's environment spokesperson, Deputy O'Dowd, on bringing the Bill before the House. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has a hard neck. He is the Minister responsible for electoral matters. After his party's ten years in office he...
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007: Second Stage (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Roche is the Minister who is responsibleââ
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007: Second Stage (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: According to the Minister's script, they were published in April 2006. For a man who is getting "smart-alecky" about dates, now, and who has been lecturing other people here all night about dates, the Minister would need toââ
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2007: Second Stage (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Nobody comes into the House more often than the Minister to pull people up on all types of dates, phrases, commas and so on. He is the Minister responsible for electoral matters. His Government could have brought legislation before the House anytime in the past ten years to provide for an independent electoral commission. It is not a new idea but one that has been kicked around the Houses...
- Written Answers — Drug Abuse: Drug Abuse (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the spread of crack cocaine in urban Ireland; if his attention has been drawn to recent reports that crack cocaine could potentially spread to increasing numbers of cities and towns; the efforts he has made to combat the spread of crack cocaine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15000/07]
- Written Answers — Fishing Vessel Licences: Fishing Vessel Licences (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 537: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress made to process an appeal under Section 7 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003 by a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14326/07]
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 707: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason he is discontinuing core funding from the LDP for a group (details supplied); if he will reconsider his position on funding for this group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15180/07]
- Written Answers — Fire Service: Fire Service (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 1043: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the case being made by the National Retained Firefighters Association for a national standard uniform for such firefighters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15181/07]
- Written Answers — Fire Service: Fire Service (24 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 1044: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the case made by the National Retained Firefighters Association for a compensation scheme for retained firefighters who are killed or injured in the course of their duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15182/07]
- Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: No. This important legislation deals with the modernisation of water services, a matter not unconnected with the problems people in Galway are experiencing. It took the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government almost two years to prepare the legislation. It was published in 2003 but he took until the beginning of 2005 to get it through Second Stage. He then sat on it...
- Order of Business (25 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: It adds insult to injury to the people of Galway and the problems they are suffering.
- Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I thank Deputy O'Dowd for facilitating my intervention at this stage. When the House debated this Bill on Second Stage at the end of 2004, I made the point that while the legislation was unlikely to excite the passions of the House, the media or the public, we would return some day, after something had gone wrong, to consider the issue of water services and the manner in which the passage of...
- Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Apr 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 2: In page 14, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: ""fundamental right of the individual to access to sufficient, safe, acceptable and accessible water" includes the right to access to water which is free from contamination that is likely to cause injury to human health;". This goes to the heart of the problem that arose in Galway, the absence of a legal right...