Results 3,321-3,340 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The ESRI did not say that we are going back to the 1980s and nobody wants to do so. As a country we have come a long way from the 1980s. We must move forward and out of the difficulty we are in now. The ESRI has stated that we can get out of this recessionary period but it is down to the Government. The report is clear that this is Government responsibility, as it is Government...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: We will not contribute to eroding confidence in the economy. The Opposition did nothing like what the Minister for Finance did last Friday. If we had our own currency last Friday, I wonder where he would have landed it. It is the job of the Taoiseach to restore confidence in the economy and give a steer to where things are going economically. The Taoiseach is responsible for us ending up...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: We are in recession.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise four matters. The first arises from the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy Kenny. I understood him to say the nursing homes legislation would not be introduced until later in the year at the earliest. Where does that leave all the families who have made plans on the basis that the new legislation would come into effect and who are now caught in a situation where some nursing homes...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Is that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform or Defence?
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Defence knows when it will be published.
- Written Answers — Access to Sporting Facilities: Access to Sporting Facilities (24 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 103: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way he will reconcile the increasing trend towards individual sporting pursuits as the area of strongest growth with the predisposition of the sports capital programme to overwhelmingly favour team sports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24563/08]
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (24 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the heads of the Bill on the review of National Archives legislation will be published in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24582/08]
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I want to return to the serious state of the economy and to focus in particular on the role of the banks in the economy at present. When the Irish economy was booming, the banks were in the driving seat. One could get a loan for anything and they were pushing money at people. However, now that the economic circumstances have changed somewhat, the tune of the banks has also changed and it...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not accept the banks operating in this country can hide behind the international credit squeeze any more than the Taoiseach can hide behind the global economic environment with respect to the domestic policies that are applied here. We know there is an international backdrop both to what the banks do and what the Taoiseach does in regard to the economy. However, the banks, particularly...
- European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his recent meeting with the German Chancellor, Ms Angela Merkel. [16015/08]
- European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his recent meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Hans-Gert Pöttering. [16016/08]
- European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of the EU summit in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2008. [24672/08]
- European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he had with other EU leaders on the margins of the EU summit in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24673/08]
- European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if a consensus regarding the future of the Lisbon treaty emerged at the summit of EU leaders in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24674/08]
- European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: When the Taoiseach was attending the summit meeting last week, I attended a parallel meeting just before it of leaders of Labour and Social Democrat parties from the 27 member states. Surprise was expressed there that the Irish Commissioner and the Taoiseach had, during the course of the campaign, stated they had not read the treaty. Was that issue raised with the Taoiseach at the summit...
- European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: I did not let the Taoiseach down.
- European Council Meetings. (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: Much of the post-referendum and post-summit speculation focused on the idea that there will be a second referendum. Let us put that aside for the moment because I cannot see how we can have a second referendum on the same proposition. Let us say that the other 26 states proceed with ratification. I heard what the Taoiseach had to say about the situation in the Czech Republic but let us...
- Order of Business (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: No. This is a proposal on an agreement between the EU and Australia on the storage of passenger information. Opposition Whips were informed at 6.30 p.m. yesterday that important business would need to be taken today immediately after statements on the EU summit. A briefing document outlining the background was later circulated. While we are not opposed in principle to the proposed...
- Order of Business (25 Jun 2008)
Eamon Gilmore: No.