Results 7,701-7,720 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I am making a point of order.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I am making a point of order. You are right in saying, a Cheann Comhairle, that when people make points on the Order of Business, they are required to be brief.
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Burton would have been brief if she had been allowed to make her comment, but you did not-----
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: With respect, a Cheann Comhairle, you did not provide her with the protection from the Chair to which she was entitled.
- Departmental Bodies (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the recent work of the working groups chaired by his Department [45951/10]
- Departmental Bodies (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Will the Taoiseach indicate if the working group chaired by his Department has issued a report and, if so, will he indicate the findings of that report?
- Departmental Bodies (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I understood that what the Taoiseach told me in March was that there was a working group that was developing proposals for reducing barriers to information sharing between different parts of the public service. Moreover, I understood that proposals that were being developed by this group would be submitted for consideration by a Cabinet sub-committee on transforming public services. Did...
- Departmental Bodies (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: That is fine.
- Social Partnership Issues (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach when he next plans to meet the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45953/10]
- Social Partnership Issues (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach when the last formal annual meeting of the parties to the Towards 2016 Agreement was held; when the next meeting is due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45955/10]
- Social Partnership Issues (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: In the original Towards 2016 agreement, there were to have been quarterly meetings to review, monitor and report on progress, as well as an annual formal meeting of all the parties to the framework agreement. Do I understand from the Taoiseach correctly that the last quarterly meeting of the full social partnership body took place almost three years ago in February 2008? If that is the...
- Social Partnership Issues (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: On the interview by the Minister for Finance, the Taoiseach has stated that the Minister was referring to those increases in public expenditure that arose from social partnership agreements. Will the Taoiseach confirm that any such increases in public expenditure were agreed by the Government and, therefore, the reference by the Minister for Finance to the effect that social partnership did...
- Social Partnership Issues (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Are there any plans for another meeting?
- Social Partnership Issues (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: It should be done better.
- Social Partnership Issues (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach should tell us what he said himself.
- Social Partnership Issues (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: He should tell us what he said about the bank guarantee.
- EU Summits (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I was interested to hear the Taoiseach say that the wording of the proposed amendment has not yet been finalised. A draft wording has been reported in the newspapers. Is that not to be the wording that is to be presented to the European Council meeting? In the event, when does the Taoiseach expect the wording to be finalised and publicly available?
- Tribunals of Inquiry (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Has clarification been sought from the tribunal on whether public hearings have concluded? We understood that following evidence from the last witness who appeared before the tribunal public hearings would conclude. Has it been confirmed that public hearings are concluded and that it is now only a matter of the tribunal considering the evidence and preparing and bringing forth its report to...
- Leaders' Questions. (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Later this morning, we will be debating the EU-IMF deal. I wish to ask the Taoiseach about one aspect of that deal, which relates to an issue that was the subject of an RTE news report. It concerns the rate of interest which is being charged on one of the components of the deal. As we know, the deal is in three parts: the IMF, the European Financial Stability Mechanism, and the...
- Leaders' Questions. (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: If the entire amount of â¬22.5 billion is drawn down from that fund, the cost to Ireland of the additional interest which the European Union will be charging us will be close to â¬5 billion over the lifetime of the loan. When RTE questioned the European Court of Auditors about this, it confirmed that there is no precedent for the European Union charging a margin of that kind on moneys...