Results 9,021-9,040 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: No legislation is required.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: This pertains to the people's money. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform will make a public announcement on, and will publish, the capital programme.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: As I indicated in response to a question earlier, the Government is agreeable to having the issue discussed and debated in the Chamber next week and arrangements can be made for that.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: I will be answering questions in the House this afternoon in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and was surprised that neither Deputy Boyd Barrett nor any of his colleagues have tabled a question to me on this matter.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: It is not on the Order Paper. While I am happy to answer questions, the Deputy must table them.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: Yes, I agree with that, which is the reason the Government intends to establish a strategic investment fund on which an announcement will be made very shortly.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill itself has been published and I understand it will go before the Seanad next week. As I am unsure about the regulatory impact assessment, I will check with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and will communicate the reply to the Deputy.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has announced his intention to reorganise and rationalise the industrial relations institutions and he is working on that. The number of claims or applications presumably reflect industrial relations issues in the workplace. People who have industrial relations issues are perfectly entitled to bring them forward and to have them processed.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: I have already agreed there can be debate in the House next week on the public capital programme. When the Deputy's party was in Government, it produced all kinds of programmes which had no basis in reality. Telling people that it will build a road when it clearly has no money with which to do it is just not levelling with people.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government is committed to that road. There is a political commitment to it. However, we have to be straight with people.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: When there is no money to do it, there is no point going around saying we will spend so much on this and so much on something else.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: Next week.
- Tributes to President Mary McAleese (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: On behalf of the Labour Party, I am honoured to offer thanks and congratulations to President Mary McAleese as she completes her 14-year term of office today. During the recent presidential election, there was extensive discussion and debate about the office of President and the desirable attributes in one who holds that office. In fact, those are things that it is extremely difficult to...
- Diplomatic Representation (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: As outlined in my statement on Thursday last, it was with the greatest regret and reluctance that a decision had to be made to close Ireland's embassies to the Holy See and Iran and its representative office in Timor Leste. This decision is in line with the tough choices that the Government must make to address the current economic challenges that face the country. Our targets under the...
- Diplomatic Representation (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: I accept everything the Deputy said with regard to the desirability of maintaining a resident embassy in each of the three states involved. However, the difficulty is that we are operating in circumstances where, in the first instance, we are obliged to reduce costs. In addition, as a result of the reduction in numbers across the public sector, the number of staff available to the...
- Diplomatic Representation (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: All of our missions abroad will remain under ongoing review. I am not offering any hope or prospect that the position can be changed, either in the short term or in the foreseeable future, because there are financial and staffing considerations which militate against such a change. We have a small diplomatic team and we must concentrate our efforts. Compared to other countries, we have a...
- Overseas Development Aid (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, to be held in Busan at the end of this month, will be a milestone in the international effort to strengthen the quality of development assistance. The Government will be represented at this major international meeting by a delegation headed by the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan. The delegation will include the Chairman of the Oireachtas...
- Overseas Development Aid (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The officials of my Department have been actively engaged in the preparations for the Busan meeting over the past 12 months. Final negotiations on the outcome document will take place in Busan. In the meantime, a number of high-level officials from partner countries, donors, emerging economies and civil society are working on the text of the outcome document. Within this group, we are...
- Overseas Development Aid (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, intends to take an active role at the meeting. I will ask her, but her attendance will depend on the schedule of meetings. As the Deputy knows, there are ministerial, governmental and parliamentary schedules at these types of event. Sometimes they overlap. I am sure the Minister of State will endeavour to liaise with Deputy Breen on what is...
- Diplomatic Representation (10 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: The "Promoting Ireland Abroad" conference in June enabled interaction with all of my Department's senior overseas representatives, Irish business leaders and heads of Irish economic agencies. The Taoiseach and I outlined the Government's approachto promoting Ireland as open for business and set out the role of the State's diplomatic networks in this regard. I set as a priority our...