Results 441-460 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Service Charges. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: We differ as to who the polluter is.

Service Charges. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the Minister satisfied with the situation whereby the consumer price index indicates that the average charges for local authority services have increased by 104% since 2002? Does he recognise that the cost of this service is increasing all the time? Given the provisions of the legislation introduced by his Government, county managers are required by law to impose the full cost of the...

Nuclear Waste. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: When did that happen? That is not good enough.

Nuclear Waste. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Somebody is hiding information, either the Minister or BNFL.

Waste Disposal. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister explain why a plant, which is only three years old, is emitting such foul odours? When it was opened, we were informed it was the most modern sewage treatment plant. What has gone wrong? Was it not built properly? Were safeguards not included? Who will bear the cost of the consultants engaged to examine the problem and the remedial works that will result? Will the costs be...

Waste Disposal. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has not answered my question but I thank him, nevertheless, for replying to a question I did not ask. What is the explanation for the odour, given that is a new plant? Has the Minister or his officials asked what is wrong? If somebody constructed a new building and it malfunctioned to this extent, he or she would want to find out why. The sludge treatment facility is not working,...

Waste Disposal. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The people do not want tea and sympathy.

Waste Disposal. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is off on another soliloquy.

Waste Disposal. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Did the Minister ask the question?

Waste Disposal. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I listen all the time.

Waste Disposal. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I will come back to this issue.

End-of-Life Vehicles. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The European Court of Justice made a judgment on 28 October last that Ireland has failed to fulfil its obligations on this directive. The Minister of State has stated that the delay in implementing the directive is a result of a failure to reach agreement with various interests in the industry. Is it true that agreement was reached between the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local...

End-of-Life Vehicles. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Will I have time to raise a supplementary question?

End-of-Life Vehicles. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: He has gone well over the minute. I would like to put a supplementary question.

End-of-Life Vehicles. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Was an agreement reached at the end of 2001 between the three organisations representing the different interests relating to this directive and will the Minister of State publish the text of that agreement? Second, was a separate agreement reached between his Department and the SIMI to the exclusion of the other two organisations in 2002 and will he publish the text of that agreement?

End-of-Life Vehicles. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I have it here.

End-of-Life Vehicles. (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I have the text of an agreement here.

Public Expenditure: Motion (Resumed). (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share time with Deputies McManus and Bruton. I will relate the case of a constituent, whom I do not wish to identify. He is a man in his mid-60s who has been battling cancer for the past year. He has worked all his life in paid employment, as an employee, and running his own business for the past two decades in a self-employed capacity. He has always paid his way and never claimed...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Schemes: Social Welfare Schemes (18 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is evidence for the recent public assertion that there is widespread abuses of the rent allowance system; the number of cases of such alleged abuse that have been brought to his attention; the amount of rent allowance being wrongly claimed in respect of each such case of alleged abuse; the action he...

Written Answers — Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge: Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge (19 May 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 20: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad iad na contaetha is mó ina bhfuil laghdú tagtha ar líon na dteaghlach atá tar éis deontas iomlán a fháil faoi Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge i mbliana; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [16636/05]