Results 5,561-5,580 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I am surprised the Taoiseach does not have more information about whether top people in the banks are paid more than the salary cap. After all, we are now funding and guaranteeing the banks and taking bad loans from them. We are doing everything for them and one would expect the Taoiseach to know whether these people are paying themselves more than the Government wants.
- Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: For example, the annual report of one bank shows that all bar one of the executive directors are on salaries in excess of the cap and, on top of that, remuneration other than salary is also paid to these people. As a matter of information, can the Taoiseach tell us whether the cap applies just to salary or to the total remuneration package?
- Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The banks are still calling the shots. The old guard is still in place. If one looks at the boards of directors of the banks, for example, apart from the public interest directors, the directors who are there now were there at the time the collapse happened and the guarantee had to be introduced. In Allied Irish Banks, ten of the ten who are there now were there then. In Bank of Ireland...
- Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach knows a lot about it himself.
- Leaders' Questions. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: That is the bank's press release.
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the appointments made by him since his election as Taoiseach to the State boards, or other agencies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32526/09]
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The revised programme for Government promised the Government would introduce legislation to provide for a more open and transparent system for appointments to public bodies. It stated the legislation would outline a procedure for the publication of all vacancies likely to occur, invite applications from the general public and, from the responses, create a panel of suitable persons for...
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the legislation, I will read directly from the revised programme, which states, "Introduce on a legislative basis a more open and transparent system for appointments to public bodies". It then sets out the way in which this will be done. Which Minister will be responsible for introducing this legislation?
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Has it been agreed by the Government? When the revised programme for Government was agreed, was it agreed that the Minister for Finance-----
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Which Minister?
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister for Finance have responsibility for it?
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Is it intended that it will apply to all Government appointments to State bodies?
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: When the revised programme for Government was being negotiated, what was agreed?
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not know what that means.
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Does the Green Party know what it means?
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Can the Taoiseach tell us what it means?
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I will revert to it.
- Ministerial Appointments. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Lighten up; the Taoiseach is in a bad humour this morning.
- Freedom of Information. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2009; the way these figures compare with the same period in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32527/09]
- Freedom of Information. (18 Nov 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Given that being the case, would the Taoiseach be prepared to accept the Labour Party proposal that all bodies should automatically be covered by the freedom of information legislation unless there are specific reasons for them not to be covered? That would avoid the necessity to add bodies to its ambit from time to time as new bodies are formed, etc. Is it true that the Government is...