Results 5,381-5,400 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I expect the deadline to be kept. The legislation is expected by the end of June.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The foreshore and marine area development Bill has 74 heads and consultation is ongoing with various Departments about the Bill's content. It is expected to be published in 2012. As I stated earlier, I have not yet had the opportunity to read the Mahon report and I have just received a disk with the report before coming to the House. Previous reports from this tribunal made findings of...
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: This Government is bringing forward no legislation to criminalise decent, honest people who have never done anything wrong in their lives.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: We have a debate here every day-----
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: -----on the performance of the Government. Deputies have an opportunity to discuss the issue during Leaders' Questions and Oral Questions to Ministers and through Oireachtas committees. This is the most accountable Government in the history of the State.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Work on the heads of the health insurance (risk equalisation) Bill is continuing and it is hoped to have the legislation published before the end of the year.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The housing Bill is due to be published before the end of the year.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill is expected late this year.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: What is required to deal with people who are committing crimes, whether the theft of lead or a similar crime, is enforcement of the legislation on the Statute Books. These are crimes and do not need to be made crimes again. The Minister for Justice and Equality is focused on ensuring legislation is enforced and those who commit crimes of this nature are brought to justice.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: There are no plans to introduce a Revised Estimate.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: As I stated, the Government is open to discussing the arrangements for next week through the Whips. It is important that we have a full debate on the Mahon tribunal report. When previous reports from various tribunals were presented there were sometimes long delays before the House debated them, which is undesirable. This report should be debated by the Dáil at the first opportunity,...
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: A number of banking Bills are promised. Work is proceeding on the Central Bank (consolidation) Bill following completion of work on the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill, which is awaiting Committee Stage. I referred earlier to a separate Bill dealing with credit unions. The Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) Act has been enacted.
- Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Gaeltacht Bill was approved by the Government on 7 February and will be published later this year. There is normally an assessment carried out on economic growth figures in April, so the Minister's updated version will be published some time after that.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Niall Collins is correct that the Government committed to imposing no reductions in basic social welfare payments.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: We honoured that commitment in the budget. The Government is absolutely committed to defending the position of people with disabilities and their families, working with them and supporting them. That work is underpinned by that being carried out by the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, and the Minister for...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The change to the disability allowance was, as the Deputy says, paused. That position has not changed. I find it remarkable that on a day the Government has progress to report in regard to the promissory note and when we have just seen the publication of the report of the Mahon tribunal, the only issue Fianna Fáil can find to raise during Leaders' Questions is one that has-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is an issue that has already been dealt with by the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: First, to correct the Deputy, the debt did not just materialise in 2010. It materialised in 2008 when her party voted for the bank bailout.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: That is the reason we are in this fix and the reason the Government is trying to fix it. It was landed with the highly expensive method of financing Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society via promissory notes as a result of the disastrous banking policies of the previous Government.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Yes, and we have.