Results 5,401-5,420 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Since taking office the Government has been working hard to lessen the cost to the taxpayer of rescuing the banks.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: This has involved a long process of building trust and confidence with our partners in Europe.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government has committed itself to informing the Dáil about any significant development in the payment of the promissory note at the end of the month. The Minister for Finance brought the Dáil up to date on the issue last night.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: In recent months the Government has been involved in technical discussions to reduce the burden of debt associated with the recapitalisation of the banks. In particular, its focus has been on the promissory note arrangement made to fund the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, formerly Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society. This is an arrangement that requires the...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Mary Lou McDonald is correct: I have been consistent on this issue, as have the Taoiseach and the Government. Since its formation, it stated it would proceed to renegotiate the terms of the bailout arrangements which it considers to be too onerous on the taxpayer. It has been consistent in this regard. The Minister for Finance has brought the House up to date on the progress made on...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: She was wrong when she assumed, first, that the Government would not succeed in negotiating a change in the arrangements.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Mary Lou McDonald was wrong when she assumed the Government would not secure a reduction in the interest rate. Moreover, as I recall it, she was wrong when she assumed the Government would not secure agreement, for example, to reverse the change to the minimum wage. Her problem is that-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Mary Lou McDonald's problem is that she is disappointed the Government is succeeding.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government is succeeding. I repeat the point that if we succeed - the discussions have not yet been concluded - in getting agreement to the replacement of the promissory note with a long-term Government bond, this will have enormous benefits for the taxpayer and the country.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: In response to Deputy Pearse Doherty, a man who got it so outrageously wrong in September 2008, the taxpayer is due a period of repentant silence from him.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Just prior to entering the Chamber I received a copy of the report of the Mahon tribunal. Obviously, I have not had the opportunity to read it yet. We will all have the chance to read and consider that report during the course of the day and over the weekend. I hope that it will be possible to make arrangements, through the Whips, for the House to engage in a comprehensive debate on the...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: We have made progress on that matter and the Minister for Finance made an announcement in this regard yesterday. I would like the Whips to reach an arrangement whereby, when Members have had an opportunity to consider it, the Dáil will have the opportunity to engage in a comprehensive debate next week on the findings contained in the Mahon tribunal report.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: If we were to follow Deputy Higgins's advice, the country would run out of money.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: That is not an idle comment. The only occasion on which the Deputy's people ran anything was in the 1980s when they ran the city of Liverpool. That city ran out of money. One Friday afternoon, when there was no money to pay the wages of the grave-diggers, the road workers and the other employees of the city of Liverpool, the Deputy's people were obliged to hire taxis to deliver P45s to...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Here is another link for the Deputy.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I have another link for Deputy Higgins in respect of a matter that is not unconnected to the Mahon tribunal. His people in Liverpool were also subsequently found to be corrupt.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Higgins's juvenile economics-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Higgins's juvenile economics-----
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: I am answering them. Deputy Higgins's juvenile economics will not get the country out of the difficulties in which it currently finds itself.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2012)
Eamon Gilmore: It is doing a good job.