Results 4,361-4,380 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The issue of child benefit will be considered in the context of the budget. The children first Bill will be taken this session.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Finance addressed upward only rent reviews in his Budget Statement last December. He set out the position and referred to the advice received from the Attorney General.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: He set out the position. There is a constitutional issue related to it, which the Minister for Finance addressed. The Government accepted the recommendations of the Keane report and we had a debate in the House in which we set out, in great detail, the action taken by the Government on foot of the report. The key item of legislation arising from the report is the Personal Insolvency Bill....
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The roads (amendment) Bill is due next year.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The House is dealing with the Fiscal Responsibility Bill next week and it is intended that the Personal Insolvency Bill will be dealt with as quickly as arrangements can be made with the Whips.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The companies legislation is due this session and the credit reporting Bill was published last Friday. It is a matter of scheduling with the Whips when it is brought before the House. I expect it to be in the House shortly.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is intended to have the constitutional convention launched this side of the budget. We are making arrangements to have it announced and launched. With regard to consultation on its composition, there have already been discussions with Opposition parties. We do not have any difficulty with further discussion on it. We would like to see it done in a manner to which we can subscribe...
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is intended to have the Bill in the House this session.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not propose to take advice from the Deputy about how the banks should be run because I recall the advice he gave the previous Government when he said it should make Sean FitzPatrick the governor of the Bank of Ireland.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Ross does not have a particularly good track record on this. I will also not come into the House to defend the practices of banks, now or in the past. What the Government is doing in regard to our banking system is to ensure, first, we have a banking system that is fit for purpose for our economy. It is a work in progress and there are a number of dimensions to it, one of which is...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is difficult work but it is work in which we will succeed.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I am answering them but the Deputy does not like the answers.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 5, Europol Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in regard to the Assaults on Emergency Workers Bill 2012, the Second Stage of which shall be considered tomorrow, the following arrangements shall apply: (i) the opening speech of the main spokespersons for Fianna Fáil, Sinn...
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report, the Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012 will be in the House next week and that will give Members an opportunity to debate the report and it is also intended to hold a debate reasonably soon on the economic situation- it is a matter for the Whips to agree the timing of it - and this can obviously include the report.
- Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: There is quite a degree of latitude when Second Stage of a Bill is debated. The Fiscal Responsibility Bill will be in the House next week. It would be extraordinary if that debate did not include reference and discussion of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report but, in any event, it is our intention that there will be a wider debate on the economy, which will obviously include the...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is not waffle to the parent of a sick child who has to go from Billy to Jack under our health system.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Our priority as a Government is to get primary care centres provided, built, staffed and up and running.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Members of Sinn Féin were among those who constantly asked, day in and day out, where is the stimulus package and why is there not one. We have produced a stimulus package of €2.25 million and have taken the opportunity in that package to include the provision of primary care centres in order that we can provide in local communities a centre where somebody who is ill or who has a...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: What I was involved in, and am proud to have been involved in, was the production of a financial package, despite all the financial difficulties this country has, which provided for the building, staffing and resourcing of primary care centres and our pressing ahead with that. I recently nominated Deputy Alex White to be Minister of State to take charge of that and I am confident he will...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: On the criteria, I did not see the Deputy make any complaint about the selection of the additional primary care centre in Deputy Adams' constituency. There was no complaint about that. I did not hear any complaint from the Deputy.