Results 14,261-14,280 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The plan was submitted on 25 November and the Minister for Health has 21 days in which to consider it. My understanding is that the period of 21 days will expire on 16 December and between now and then I expect the Minister to bring the plan to the Government with his recommendations for what he intends to do with it. Thereafter the plan will be published and I expect that there will be...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That is something we can consider. The plan must first be considered by the Minister and then by the Government. As it must then be published, let us cross that fence when we come to it.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I cannot because we do not have the------
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There may well be grounds for reviewing the Government's jobs strategy. We are ahead of the job creation target we set in the Action Plan for Jobs - 100,000 jobs. We are now two thirds of the way through the period of that plan which is to last until the end of 2015 and are ahead of our targets. Obviously, I am concerned about the announcement made this morning in Newbridge and my thoughts...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The inland fisheries (modernisation and consolidation) Bill will modernise and consolidate existing provisions of legislation governing the inland fisheries sector. A working group, comprising the Department and Inland Fisheries Ireland, is developing the heads of that Bill which is expected next year.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy should not rush to judgment; one would never know what one might catch.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Angling requires a degree of patience.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The gambling control Bill is due late next year. I am appearing before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade this afternoon and if the Deputy cares to turn up and ask me the questions about the Ukraine, I will be happy to answer them.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill was published on 19 July. As it is awaiting Second Stage, it just a matter of arranging time to debate it in the House.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill is due next year, but the heads have not yet been considered by the Government.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is to bring forward a revised scheme for the health information Bill in view of policy developments. It is not possible to indicate when the Bill will be published, nor am I in a position to indicate its contents.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The geothermal energy development Bill, which is to provide a legislative framework for the vesting, licensing and regulation of the development of geothermal energy, is expected late next year. My information is that Bill will come after the minerals development Bill. There is a sequence.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The heads are being developed in consultation with key stakeholders and the Bill is expected next year.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The national paediatric hospital development Bill is being progressed. I do not have a date for its publication but work is being done on it.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I am glad the Deputy acknowledges that we are at last reaching a position where we might consider a social dividend after all people have been through. We have no social welfare Bill scheduled for the remainder of this year.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This issue on the commencement of the Charities Act was raised yesterday and I undertook that I would arrange to get responses sent to the Deputies who raised it. I will ask that Deputy Ross be included in that circulation.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The legislation on the leader's allowances paid to Independent Members is in the Seanad and will be in this House early in the new year. A Dáil debate on the disappeared has been discussed at Whips' meetings but legislative business has been prioritised. I will ask the Chief Whip to address it again.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The terrorist offences Bill will be early next year. Recently I met briefly with Mr. Michael Gallagher from the Omagh families. I hope to have a longer meeting with him. The EirGrid Bill will be published next year.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill is awaiting Committee Stage.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not have a date, but it is expected to come before the committee quite soon. In regard to the report on Dóchas, I understand it is intended to deal with the overcrowding issue and we are, therefore, anxious to see the legislation passed. In regard to the committee report-----