Results 861-880 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: It will reassure the country. The British Government sensibly decided to carry out tests of electronic voting before committing itself to using electronic voting in elections. The last tests were in 2003 and more trials were scheduled for 2004, but these were abandoned on the advice of the electoral commission. They have now abandoned the whole idea. Whatever the Minister may think of the...

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: They are used in Florida.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: If only the Minister had listened to me in the first place.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: We could sell them. Is there a market for electronic voting machines?

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: How much are the services of the consultants who have been appointed to check on the machines, see if they are affected by damp and ensure that nobody is trying to steal or copy the patents, which would cost the taxpayer on top of the other wasted funding for these machines?

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: That is true.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy O'Dea will look after them.

Litter Pollution. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I was surprised that this question was not answered by the Minister of State with responsibility for environmental protection, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. I was interested to note his comments at the weekend opposing incineration. As this question relates to waste matters and as the Minister of State has not had an opportunity to contribute during Priority Questions today, will the Minister, Deputy...

Litter Pollution. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: There was one message in Ringaskiddy and another in Ringsend.

Litter Pollution. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Have I hit a sore spot?

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Fine Gael Party for facilitating me by allowing me to make my contribution now as I will be unable to attend the debate later. I welcome the Bill and congratulate the Green Party for introducing it. The Labour Party will support this Bill in the division. I am disappointed by the negative response from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. It was in line...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Collectively, the rest of the European Union is going in the right direction. The 15 pre-accession EU states are 5% under the 1990 target, while the 25 member states are 7% under the 1990 target. Ireland, under this Government, is 25% above the 1990 target. Currently, under this Administration, there does not appear to be any hope that we will reach the target. All the Government intends to...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has stated that he will publish a review document shortly. He continued by stating there would be consultation on the document.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister also declared his intention to publish a revised climate change strategy. He stated, "by the time I publish a revised climate change strategy, the way forward may have been clarified, though this process is likely to take considerable time".

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: This was not a reference to what might be agreed at the Montreal meeting. The Minister referred to the clarification that will take place on a wet Friday, sometime between now and the middle of 2007, in every primary school in the country. While we heard claptrap from the Minister about the urgency of the issue of climate change and how concerned he is about the dangers, effectively the...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government will leave an enormous heap of carbon and pollution behind it.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government is doing to the environment what it did to the economy in 1977, when it made a mess of it, blamed other people and attempted to re-write history.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The national climate change strategy was published just over five years ago. At the beginning of the plain guide version, we are told that we face a grim future unless we change. The plain guide goes on to tell us that the national climate change strategy turns the Kyoto Agreement into a programme for action. I should mention that the national climate change strategy was published in 2000,...

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The massive bill to the taxpayer is made all the more painful when one considers the announcement in the autumn by the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, to provide €115 million funding for renewable energy projects over 15 years.

Climate Change Targets Bill 2005: Second Stage. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The European Environment Agency, on the other hand, is quite prepared to face the reality of the worst case scenario and it seems that in terms of performance regarding the Kyoto Protocol, Ireland is the worst case scenario. According to a new European Environment Agency report, The European environment — State and outlook 2005, Ireland is now ranked the bottom of the European environment...