Results 841-860 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Local Authority Housing. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: This is an insulting answer to Dáil Éireann. This is a matter of simple addition. Any of the children in the Visitors Gallery would have done it long ago. Nine months ago the local authorities sent data on the numbers of people applying for housing to the Minister of State's Department.

Local Authority Housing. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: There are only 40 housing authorities or thereabouts. It is not a difficult sum. What is the total number of applicants? The Minister of State should not take us for fools. He has that information and he is withholding it from the House. Give the House the information. I have asked the Minister of State for the number of applicants for local authority and other forms of social housing and the...

Local Authority Housing. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State is incompetent and useless. Not only can he not manage and provide housing for the people on the housing list, he cannot even count the number of applicants.

Local Authority Housing. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: These are the figures.

Local Authority Housing. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: What about the figures?

Local Authority Housing. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: You are doctoring the figures.

Local Authority Housing. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order, this Minister of State told us a few minutes ago that he did know the figure. He has now just told us that it will not be 60,000. If he is confident about what it will not be, then he knows what it is but will not tell us.

Nuclear Safety. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister did not.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 7: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the target which Ireland has set in the national climate change strategy for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2012; the reduction achieved to date in 2005; the estimated annual cost to Ireland if greenhouse gas emissions remain at their current level; the target for reduction in greenhouse gases for...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the projected cost, is the cost of €55.5 million per year the worst case scenario? The Minister stated that we must close a gap of 8 million tonnes of carbon to meet our Kyoto Protocol target in six years' time. Hence, will we achieve an annual reduction in the order of 1.5 million tonnes of carbon between now and 2012? Will the Minister indicate to the House how that will be...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Is that the worst case scenario?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I have simply asked a question.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: While I am aware that this is a commitment period, its final year is now only six years' away. We have a gap of 8 million tonnes of carbon to close. We have not done very well in the past five years since the climate change strategy was published. The Minister has avoided answering the question on the worst case scenario for the obvious reason that he does not want to admit what I have...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Including buying its way out of it.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: With taxpayers' money. How much taxpayers' money will be spent?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: How will the Minister be able to look his UK counterparts in the eye and lecture them about nuclear energy when this country, under his stewardship, is failing to meet its commitments on carbon reduction under the Kyoto Protocol?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: They are increases. We are 25% over the target level and the rest of Europe is 7% under.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: We have one of the worst records in Europe in regard to carbon emissions.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the UK Government has cancelled all it plans to run trials of electronic voting in advance of UK local elections in 2006; if, in view of this, he intends to abandon the electronic voting project altogether; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36644/05]

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a great relief to hear the Government has appointed consultants to examine the security of electronic voting and to conduct a risk assessment.