Results 3,881-3,900 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the climate Bill, a policy analysis being conducted by the NESC is still under way and it is expected the Bill will be published next year. I will revert to the Deputy on the Antarctic Bill.
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: After the budget.
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: We must await the announcement of the Minister for Finance. Whatever legislative measures are required to give effect to his announcements will then be a matter for consideration by the Dáil, after the budget.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Once again Deputy Boyd Barrett manages to twist things. The figures he cited refer not to people who are in poverty but to those who are at risk of poverty. The reality is that Ireland has one of the lowest levels of poverty risk in the OECD. That said, however, poverty and risk of poverty are real concerns for this Government. That is why we have to restore our public finances. We are...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I can give an assurance to people in this country that the approach we are taking, which is a rational approach to dealing with the financial and economic crisis-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----will restore our economy, get people back to work and ensure the country has the money to provide for social protection, social services, education, health services and all the other services we need to ensure people do not slip into poverty and are supported in getting out of poverty. That cannot be done by simply shouting at the problem.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Do not be daft. The rate of corporation tax in this country is, by any standard, a strong and effective rate.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Boyd Barrett should get a grip. Stop shouting slogans at everything.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: We need to continue to attract companies that will invest and create jobs here. Last year was the best in the past decade for attracting inward investment to generate direct and spin-off employment in the domestic economy. Deputy Boyd Barrett simply does not want them. He wants to chant slogans at them. He wants to send them away.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: They are paying tax.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: These are the people and companies that we want to attract to this country in order to create jobs. That is how we will get out of the economic crisis, not by running around like a blue-behind fly waving slogans.
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 12, Supplementary Estimates for Public Services [Votes 12, 20, 22, 31 and 32] - back from committee; No. 13, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the draft scheme entitled Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2012; No. 21, Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012 - Order for...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Having raised one issue and gotten an answer-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----Deputy O'Dea now switches tack to two or three other issues. I will now take each of the points he made in sequence. The Government is not dismissing out of hand the study conducted for the INMO. I told the Deputy in my reply that the Minister for Health would examine the results of that study when it is available. Deputy O'Dea will agree that it is prudent, if not courteous to those...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: They are taking on additional responsibilities and extra work as part of the undertakings to which they committed under the Croke Park agreement. In respect of the issue that Deputy O'Dea now attempts to raise, it is unworthy of him to try to haul into this question the tragic case of Savita Halappanavar. The Deputy's party leader, only a week ago, acknowledged that this country is one of...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Sinn Féin used to believe in equality between North and South, which is a view to which I subscribe.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy McDonald will know that a house valued at £150,000 in Antrim is subject to a property tax of £1,100.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The owner of a house valued at £100,000 in Strabane pays £714 in property tax and a house-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: A house valued at just £75,000 in Coleraine is liable to a property tax of £506. Does the hypocrisy-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Does the hypocrisy of Sinn Féin know any bounds at all? The position is that the Government made it clear that we will introduce a local property tax which will replace the household charge. That is a budgetary matter which is under consideration by the Government and the Minister for Finance will announce the details of it on budget day.