Results 341-360 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: If that figure is correct, almost 10,000 houses built in 2004 have no one living in them except for two or three weeks of the year. Is the Minister satisfied with a position wherein, notwithstanding the good housing output with which we are all happy, twice as many houses are being built as holiday homes than are being built for families by local authorities? What type of country are we becoming?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Sure.

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: How many of the 77,000 houses built in 2004 were one-off dwellings in rural areas?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I express surprise that, on the day the Government announces its new planning guidelines for one-off housing, we cannot be told how many houses being built are one-off dwellings. It is a basic piece of information on which policy might be made. How many additional houses does the Minister of State expect will be built over the next year as a result of today's announcement?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, who is sitting beside the Minister of State, answer my question?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: This question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and concerns the number of houses. On the day the Government is announcing its new planning guidelines for one-off housing, are both the Minister and the Minister of State serious when they say they cannot tell the House how many one-off dwellings were built in 2004 and how many additional such...

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: ——this morning about new planning guidelines but the Government does not know how many one-off houses were built in the first place and how many additional houses will result from these guidelines. What sort of policy-making is this?

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Then they are of no real benefit.

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: This is no help. It is a bag of wind.

Housing Output. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I would like to see what the Minister would have to say if he were not embarrassed by this.

Environmental Policy. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I think the Minister paid me a compliment towards the end of the last question.

Environmental Policy. (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Until I read what it was in the Official Report, I reserve the right to return it in kind at some suitable opportunity. How much of the reduction in emissions is attributable to the closure of the Nítrigin Éireann Teoranta plants in Arklow and Cork?

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 76: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the basis for the changes in the retail planning guidelines announced by his Department on 5 January 2005; the names of those retail concerns that made representations to his Department to have the guidelines changed; if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns expressed about the possible impact...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (13 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 156: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he intends to implement the EU directive on the energy performance of buildings; the progress which has been made in making the necessary regulations or preparing legislation; the correspondence he has had with the EU Commission on possible derogation from the directive; and if he will make a statement...

Family Support Services. (19 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals for the replacement of the current lone parent's allowance with a family friendly child benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11831/05]

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Where?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Name one estate.

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Name one new housing scheme where starting prices are under €200,000 in the Dublin area.

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Were they affordable houses?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion. (19 Apr 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Was it a private scheme?