Results 1,081-1,100 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

House Prices. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 103: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he intends to take to address the renewed increase in house price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5381/06]

House Prices. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Does the Minister agree that while there was some degree of moderation in the level of house price increases, house price inflation appears to be taking off again? That was the general thrust of the ESRI and Permanent TSB report earlier this year. Apart from calling on the lending institutions to curtail their lending activity, is the Minister of State contemplating any measures to address...

House Prices. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I do not understand the Minister of State's emphasis on 100% mortgages, which after all only give a benefit to those at the poorest end of the market who cannot afford to get a mortgage any other way. Looking at the 80,000 houses built last year, half of them were bought by investors and 15,000 of them were second homes which are hardly reliant on 100% mortgages. Will the Minister of State...

House Prices. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Those types of mortgages are not being taken up by buyers of investment properties.

House Prices. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The take-up is not in the investor area.

Register of Electors. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 106: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he has taken to date in 2006 in respect of the concerns raised in Dáil Éireann regarding the inadequate maintenance of the electoral register; the local authorities which have been consulted to date in 2006 on this matter; the proposals he has drawn up to deal with this problem; when he intends...

Register of Electors. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister accept that it is not guidance that the local authorities need in many cases, but the resources with which to compile the register, particularly in areas with rapid housing development and population movement? In this regard, why did he refuse Kildare County Council additional resources which it requested because of the difficulties it is having in compiling its electoral...

Register of Electors. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: We are reaching a point where I am reluctant to ask a supplementary question because the Minister takes the opportunity to clap himself on the back. My sole point on resources is that because of the level of development taking place in their areas and the increase in the number of houses, population movement, rental and so on, some local authorities are having more difficulties than others in...

EU Directives. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I was interested to hear the Minister say that he wanted to do his best for farming. I would understand that comment if it had come from the Minister for Agriculture and Food. If the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government takes that particular role in the matter, who is doing the best for the environment? We are taking about the pollution of water from fertilizer run-off...

EU Directives. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Why did he not do it?

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I understood the national spatial strategy would have to be driven and I recollect that the Minister's Department was to be the lead engine in driving it. Will he tell us how this is done? I do not see anybody in charge of the strategy. I hear it mentioned from time to time but cannot recall a single decision made by a planning authority or the Government that would not have been made in any...

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Decentralisation——

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: That concentrated development in Dublin.

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The national spatial strategy was to spread development to the regions.

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Are we to have an IKEA at every gateway?

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: They are moving back into the city centres in the United Kingdom.

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: They are getting smaller.

Building Control Bill 2005: Second Stage. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: That is unparliamentary language. Is the Minister not obliged to withdraw what he said?

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: That Dáil Éireann, recognising that: —due to high house prices, inadequate provision of social and affordable housing, and increased rents in the private rented sector, there are now approximately 60,000 households dependent on rent supplement; and —the rent supplement as currently administered is causing serious poverty traps and disincentive to work; calls on the Government to...

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Spending went up everywhere.