Results 4,481-4,500 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach said he knew about the Quinn situation in March and that his understanding was that the matter was resolved with the statement on 30 July from the Quinn group. We now know that the so-called resolution of the Quinn issue involved an arrangement whereby Anglo Irish Bank provided â¬300 million to ten wealthy individuals, who in turn used the money to buy shares in Anglo Irish...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I accept what the Taoiseach says. I am not trying to impute anything to him. I want to pursue further what the Taoiseach said in his reply. The Taoiseach said he knew in March about the Quinn overhang in Anglo Irish Bank. Did he know the full extent of it in March? The Taoiseach says he thought it was resolved in July. Given what we now know, did he know the full extent of how it was...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach knew about this in July.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Was that in March?
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government Chief Whip has been on the airwaves to indicate that the Government is contemplating legislation to provide for compellability of witnesses before certain Oireachtas committees in connection with the banking issue. Is such legislation being considered and, if so, when will we see it? On the Bill to give effect to the so called "pension levy" in the public services, the Public...
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: We will consider the Taoiseach's application.
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I move: That Dáil Ãireann: believes that: the measures required to deal with the current economic crisis must be based on the principles of fairness and equity; those who contributed most to the crisis should be required to contribute most to a solution and that people should be asked to contribute according to their ability to pay; irresponsible lending practices by the banks and reckless...
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Nobody in this House would deny that we are at the beginning of what may be the worst economic crisis in living memory. All around the country tonight, around kitchen tables, people are wondering just how they are going to get through it. How will they manage with less take-home pay, but the same bills? How will they pay their mortgage, and what will happen if they cannot? How will they...
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: It has suited some people, including Ministers, to imply that public and private sector employees exist on separate planets and public servants were, in the insulting headline-chasing words of Minister of State, Deputy John McGuinness, "featherless but still plump State hens". The implication is that public service workers are impervious to this recession while all the pain is being felt in...
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: These people worked, reared a family and paid taxes until the rug was pulled from under them. This is a global financial crisis on a massive scale. The global boom â which made our own Celtic tiger possible â has now become a global bust and no country is immune from its impact. Ireland is different. This economic storm is battering Ireland harder than our fellow EU member states...
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: That is not so.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach stated yesterday that he did not know the identity of the ten wealthy investors who constituted the golden circle in Anglo Irish Bank. Has he found out who the ten are since? When will he find out and when will he tell us? We must be told because the people own this bank and we are stuck with the â¬300 million they gambled recklessly. The golden circle must be named. The...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance at the time.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach said he will provide the information to me in regard to what happened in 2006. I remind him that the information I seek is the identity of those who lobbied him in 2006 to cause him within days to reverse the decision by the Revenue Commissioners to issue notices of compliance for contracts for difference.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Let us see.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not so sure that it is of such insignificance that it has entirely escaped the Taoiseach's mind because of what a commentator, whom I wish to quote, said at the time. John McManus, writing in the business opinion section in The Irish Times on 3 April 2006 days after the decision was made, stated: The idea that the Minister for Finance should actually condone favourable tax treatment of...
- Departmental Expenditure. (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the costs incurred by the communications unit within his Department during 2008; the projected costs for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3143/09]
- Departmental Expenditure. (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Given all that is happening with cuts in public expenditure, has the Taoiseach any plans to get rid of the unit?
- Departmental Expenditure. (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The unit is just a listening post for the Government and its use has been questionable from the beginning. Ministers and their immediate staff are perfectly capable of reading newspapers themselves and there is no need for others to read them for them or send them on transcripts, copies or faxes. At a time when teaching assistants are being removed from special needs children, the book...
- Programme for Government. (18 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the progress to date with regard to the implementation of those areas of the programme for Government for which his Department has line responsibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3145/09]