Results 5,461-5,480 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to discontinue the National Economic and Social Development Office, with the exception of the National Economic and Social Council, as recommended by the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30256/09]
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to discontinue the Newfoundland and Labrador partnership, as recommended by the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30257/09]
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to discontinue the active citizenship office, as recommended by the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30258/09]
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to discontinue the public service modernisation unit, as recommended by the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30259/09]
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to discontinue the Law Reform Commission, as recommended by the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30260/09]
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I want to pursue the Taoiseach on some of the information he has given to the House. Have the Taoiseach and his Department formed a finalised view on the implementation of the recommendations in the report of an bord snip nua that apply to the Department? Given that four months have passed since the publication of the report, I presume its recommendations have been assessed. It is a...
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: What is the Government's position on the report of an bord snip nua? Since it was published, the Taoiseach has maintained it will inform the Government's decisions in respect of the Estimates and the budget, yet individual Ministers have taken a pop at it as they have seen fit, including the Tánaiste, who stated there was a lot in it that did not make sense. Has the Government accepted the...
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has just taken the opportunity to put on the record of the House a statement in respect of the talks that are under way between officials of the Department of Finance and the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Will the Taoiseach clarify the Government's objective with regard to the talks? When I questioned the Taoiseach earlier about the report of...
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate that, but the issue is central to what is happening in the country. The Taoiseach has said that he is anxious that time and space is given to everybody in the process to talk. The problem is that the budget is due in five weeks' time. What is the Government's objective in this matter? Is its objective to try to conclude an agreement on these matters in advance of the budget...
- Departmental Agencies. (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Therefore, the talks are just exploratory.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has just given us the general outline of the deteriorating state of the Exchequer. It is now just five weeks before the budget, which we are told will be the harshest in history. I am quite concerned about the general mood in the country as we face the budget. Many are angry about their own declining economic fortunes in addition to the declining economic fortunes of the...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: It never ceases to amaze me that every time the Taoiseach is presented with a few constructive suggestions from this side of the House that he responds with an Ard-Fheis style speech. People are angry. The Taoiseach is correct, anger is not a policy but it is very understandable given what he and his Government have done to this economy. What we need to focus on now is how the problem is...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: What time is allowed, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: How is that apportioned?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: We are not way over time because of what I am asking.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I cannot control the length of the earlier reply.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The choice the Taoiseach is faced with now is between going down the route of confrontation â I know there are people encouraging him to go that route but that would be a disaster. We are already seeing considerable signs of the degree of conflict to which it will lead. We are beginning to hear quite disturbing noises from some of the Taoiseach's own people. A Minister described the...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was not serious about it.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: No, the Taoiseach was not.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I can see the problem with the running mates. I congratulate and compliment the finance committee on the outstanding work it did in this House last week in its line by line scrutiny of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, legislation. It did a fine parliamentary job and it was most unfair of the Government or Government sources to suggest that because members of the finance committee...