Results 7,721-7,740 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions. (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: This is the first time the EFSM is being used, but it is not the first time money has been made available to members of the European Union through various EU mechanisms. The EFSM operates under Article 122 of the European Union treaties, which provides that the EU can assist a country "in a spirit of solidarity" where that country is facing exceptional financial difficulties. When money was...
- Leaders' Questions. (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government has allowed the country to be ripped off.
- Leaders' Questions. (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: It is correct. No one else was charged the penal rate.
- Leaders' Questions. (15 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government got a bad deal.
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the way the proposals contained in the National Recovery Plan, 2011- 2014 will impact on his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45172/10]
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the way it is intended to achieve the savings in his group of Votes set out in the National Recovery Plan 2011-2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45173/10]
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he has drafted an action plan under the Croke Park Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45954/10]
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his Department's estimates for 2011 [46961/10]
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: In respect of the proposed savings in the Department of the Taoiseach and its associated group of Votes, are reductions in staffing levels envisaged? The Taoiseach should outline the position in respect of both the Department and the other offices. The annual report for 2009 for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions was published today. The DPP stated in the report that his...
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I note there is an allocation of â¬6.7 million for the Moriarty tribunal for 2011, which is a slight reduction on what was provided in 2010. Why is the allocation almost as high in 2011 as it was for 2010 if, as we have been told, it has now completed its public hearings? When does the Taoiseach expect the tribunal to complete its work and present its report?
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party recommended less tax cuts than the Government implemented.
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government did more in relation to tax than we were recommending.
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: It is correct.
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach should read again what it says in regard to income tax.
- National Recovery Plan (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Bring it on.
- Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to develop the Irish language in an organic fashion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46052/10]
- Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the discussions he has had with the Department of Education and Skills regarding simplifying the grammar of the Irish language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46053/10]
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: It is not agreed. The Labour Party cannot agree to the Order of Business. It is not unusual in the final sitting week before the Christmas break that the Government would seek to use the guillotine and ram through many proposals but, by any standards, what is proposed for this week is extraordinary. Today a social welfare Bill is to be passed by 9 p.m. and the Government has produced 30...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Tomorrow we have been told we will have a vote on the memorandum of understanding relating to the agreement between the Government and the IMF and the European institutions. We have not yet been supplied with the text of the motion, which we are to debate tomorrow. Four hours are also being allocated tomorrow to deal with complex legislation on banking, the Bill for which was only...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The only people who are not showing respect to the Irish parliamentary process are the Government parties in the context of the volume of business they want to do in a short time, the fact that they are not providing notice or documentation and legislation on time to the Opposition parties and then giving us minimal time to debate them. In these circumstances, we do not agree to the Order of...