Results 4,961-4,980 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (13 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm, with reference to sections 235, 610 and Schedule 15, Paragraph 37, Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and sections 105 and 54, Finance Act 2007, which give tax exemptions to sporting bodies which have been approved by the Revenue Commissioners, that a tax exempt sports club may not use a capital sum arising from the disposal of...
- Northern Ireland Issues. (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the British Prime Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16602/09]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16603/09]
- Constitutional Amendments. (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referenda the Government plans to hold during the remainder of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15592/09]
- Constitutional Amendments. (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the position in regard to the implementation of the reports of the All-Party Committee on the Constitution; the recommendations which have been implemented and those which remain to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16604/09]
- Constitutional Amendments. (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referenda he plans to hold during the remainder of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17790/09]
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Is it not amazing that every time Deputy Kenny and I ask the Taoiseach questions about what the Government, which has executive authority, is doing to deal with the banking crisis and the shortage of credit in the economy, which is driving business to the wall and putting people out of work, the Taoiseach's answer is to tell Deputy Kenny what is wrong with Fine Gael's proposals and to tell me...
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: What about the Government's proposals? The Taoiseach has repeated the idea that NAMA will be established to solve the problem. In January, the Minister for Finance was asked about the idea of a bad bank. He said that he thought that a bad bank would be a free lunch for the other banks, paid for by the taxpayer. Less than three months later, he announced in the emergency budget what was in...
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Last week, the Government rejected the alternative proposed by the Labour Party, namely, the temporary nationalisation of the banks. That proposal has the support of 20 eminent economists-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: -----and is one of the options that, according to the IMF, should be considered by economies in this type of situation.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: It is six weeks since NAMA's announcement and we still have no idea what it is about, what it will do and how it will be composed. We know none of the details.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government published a briefing document on the night of the budget. It stated: "This is a priority for Government." We still do not have the legislation and no idea as to when it will be published. The briefing document stated: "It is proposed to establish the NAMA on a statutory basis". Since then, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance have said that they intend to establish...
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: There is no point in the Taoiseach tut-tutting me.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I am only putting to him what is in the public domain. A Sunday newspaper stated that the Government and the Department of Finance are planning a formula whereby NAMA will not put any of the 20 big developers into liquidation or receivership. Is the Government's plan to deal with the banks, an urgent matter, being delayed to provide a second bailout, not for the banks, but for the developers?
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: That was quite an astonishing reply. First, we have another shift in what we know. NAMA was originally to be set up for distressed loans, but the Taoiseach is now telling the House that it is to include performing loans.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Second, we are now being told that Dr. Somers highlighted the issues that must be addressed. What Dr. Somers highlighted were the issues that should have been addressed before the Government made its decision. What the Taoiseach is outlining to the House is an advisory committee, a steering group, engagement with the European Commission, considering, delaying and dithering. This is urgent....
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: On budget day, the Minister for Finance stated that this was urgent and a Government priority. We were told that it would need to be done quickly, but the Taoiseach is now saying that there will be a delay, consideration and a period of reflection, it would appear.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: There is no action in this. The Taoiseach says that the Government is doing all of this to get it right. This has all the hallmarks of the kind of way that the Government considered the privatisation of Telecom Ãireann. The Government knows how right it got that.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: It has all the hallmarks of how the Government considered the establishment of the HSE. We know how right it got that as well.
- Leaders' Questions (19 May 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: This is dither and delay while businesses go to the wall and are starved of the credit they need, banks are in trouble and the domestic confidence of consumers and businesses and international confidence in the country is eroding all of the time. I asked the Taoiseach a number of very simple questions, namely, when will it be set up, when will we see the legislation, when will it start work...