Results 2,561-2,580 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Constitutional Amendments. (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: No doubt at all.
- National Centre for Partnership. (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent work of the National Economic and Social Forum and its planned work programme for the first half of 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30821/07]
- National Centre for Partnership. (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach addressed a seminar of the NCPP on 29 November at which he said public service pay should neither lead nor trail the market. What decision has the Government made in respect of the proposed pay increases for the Taoiseach and his Cabinet colleagues?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I join the Taoiseach and Deputy Kenny in commiserating with the families who have lost loved ones in the past week or so and the families of those who are still ill, the most recent victims of drugs in our society. I was glad to hear the Taoiseach's second reply to Deputy Kenny because I was a little concerned when I heard his first reply that there may have been a sense of playing down the...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not disagree with the Taoiseach on the demand for drugs. We may need a discussion on our society's deeper issues to determine why there is such an abuse of substances, but the most immediate matter that can be dealt with is supply. It is cheaper to buy a line of cocaine than it is to buy a pint in this city. Despite the drug seizures and convictions, there is an enormous supply of...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I understand the increases in salary for the Judiciary which are to take effect immediately and for Ministers which are to take effect in 12 months' time will require the making of statutory instruments. Is it intended that both sets of increases will be covered by one statutory instrument or will separate instruments be required? When will the statutory instruments be laid before the House?
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I understand, therefore, that a statutory instrument will be introduced immediately in respect of the increase for judges.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: It will be done immediately.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: There will be a separate statutory instrument to be introduced some time next year to allow the ministerial increases to take effect?
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Regarding the Taoiseach's earlier response to the nursing homes support scheme Bill, he is implying it has been delayed because of a request by the Opposition. It is important to put the record straight on this matter. The Bill's provisions were announced by the Minister for Health and Children 12 months ago. There has been little legislation in the House since September. The main reason...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: There are some who claim they were not consulted at all.
- Written Answers — Capitation Grants: Capitation Grants (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the significant discrepancy in the funding for the voluntary secondary schools compared to other schools in the post-primary system having regard to the fact that almost 60% of all second level students attend the 400 voluntary secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Capitation Grants: Capitation Grants (11 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she has taken to ensure that equal funding for all schools in the post-primary sector would be achieved within the next two budgets of 2008 and 2009 in line with the commitment given in the programme for Government 2007 to 2012; the amount, based on the present numbers of pupils in the post-primary system, of additional...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Five or six years ago this House set up a body called the Irish Human Rights Commission, which is an independent body to oversee the way in which the State complies with its human rights obligations. Yesterday, that independent body issued a report which states the Irish State is not complying with its human rights obligations to prevent torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: There is a fundamental difference in having a system of inspections and the system the Taoiseach has just described. What the Government is saying is essentially that if anybody in County Clare hears that somebody is being moved through Shannon for the purposes of torture and they go into their local Garda station and report it, the Garda will then go and inspect the aeroplane. If one has...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: What the Human Rights Commission is seeking is that there would be a system of inspection, that aircraft going through Shannon would be inspected by the Garda, or whoever else, to see whether anybody is being moved illegally through Shannon for the purposes of torture. Since 2005, the Human Rights Commission has been asking the Taoiseach to do that, but he has not done so. That is why the...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: There will be no evidence without inspectors.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: It is a State body.
- Programme for Government. (12 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the progress to date with regard to implementation of the civic life section of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30822/07]
- Programme for Government. (12 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I want to pursue further the question raised by Deputy Ferris on the proposal to establish an independent electoral commission. This was the subject of a specific commitment in the programme for Government, that an independent electoral commission would be established to oversee the way in which we conducted elections and to assume some of the functions of the Standards in Public Office...