Results 5,041-5,060 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 11a, motion re proposal that Dáil Éireann notes the report to the Committee on Members' Interests of Dáil Éireann in accordance with section 21 (4) of the Standards in Public Office Act 2001; No.2, Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad] - Second Stage, to adjourn at 2.30 p.m., if not previously concluded; and No. 19, Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2011...

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government's intention is that the personal insolvency Bill will be published this session. As Deputy O'Dea acknowledged, it is complex legislation. We are dealing with a new approach to the issue of personal insolvency and radical changes in the period of time involved but also the introduction of various non-judicial settlement approaches for dealing with debt, and those are complex,...

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I acknowledge that, and the practical arrangements have to be addressed, but we must have some certainty about what will be in operation before we can start putting in place those practical arrangements. That will be examined once the issues relating to the content of the Bill have been resolved.

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with the Deputy that this is an issue, and everybody in the country would agree, which has to be given priority attention in the Dáil. That is what the Government is doing. I note, however, the Deputy did not give it priority attention in selecting the topic she chose for Leaders' Questions but that is her call. With regard to the items of legislation, Second Stage of the Criminal...

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The heads of that Bill have been approved by Government. It is intended that it will be published this session. On the issue relating to deposits, the Private Residential Tenancies Board is currently researching the viability of a deposit retention scheme.

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: On the two items of legislation, the microfinance Bill is being progressed by the Minister, Deputy Bruton, and the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill will be published later this year.

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The report is with the Minister who is taking legal advice on it. It is her intention to publish it shortly.

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The explosives Bill is expected late this year.

Order of Business (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The relevant provision was approved by government in April and the legislation is being drafted. It is intended that it will be part of the local government Bill. While I do not have a precise date for publication, I expect the Bill later this year.

Report to the Committee on Members' Interests: Motion (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: That Dáil Éireann: — takes note of the Report on the Investigation by the Standards in Public Office Commission into contraventions of section 21(1) of the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 by Deputy Arthur Spring which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 22nd March, 2012; — considers that the requirements of the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 that members must provide...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I agree with the Deputy that what we saw and what was reported in the documentary was another horrific episode in the failure of senior figures in the Catholic Church to protect children and report the abuse and rape of children. The rape or abuse of a child is a crime, and it was a crime then. The place for crimes to be investigated, prosecuted and dealt with is in the courts, and by...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Let me deal with this issue very directly. Let there be no doubt in anybody's mind about where the Taoiseach stands on this issue.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Willie O'Dea should not attempt to turn what is a very serious issue into some kind of political whack at the Taoiseach. People up and down the country are rightly horrified about what happened and the failure to report.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: He was the first Taoiseach to come into the House to address in the most forthright and direct way where responsibility lay and where the responsibility of church authorities lay. Everybody who has heard him knows exactly where he stands on the issue.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: The criticism may be made that one can come into the House and make a speech and so on. The proof of the pudding is what we have done as a Government and the follow-up we have given to the Cloyne report. After 14 years when, to be honest, not a great deal was happening in this area, we have produced the first legislation-----

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: We have produced the legislation which will underpin the Children First guidelines.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: That legislation is hugely robust and is before a committee of the Houses at present. In addition, because there has been this ambiguity about what happens where things are not reported, whether they can be reported, or whether there is some kind of a parallel system of justice that operates somewhere under some other system of law, whether it is called canon law or whatever, and that...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: I can do better than that. I can tell Sinn Féin what the Government has already done. The very first decision the Government took was to cut the pay of politicians. We cut the pay of the Taoiseach, of every Minister in the Government and of TDs. What TDs and Senators are paid in this Dáil is considerably less than what they had been paid in the previous Dáil. We also cut the payments...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: Those claims, of course, do not include the rather extravagant claim of ink cartridges that was claimed by Sinn Féin.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the Seanad, the Government is proposing the constitutional amendment-----