Results 7,821-7,840 of 9,994 for speaker:John Gormley
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason tax breaks for private hospitals represents good value for money and if he will make a statement on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41446/06]
- Written Answers — Airport Security: Airport Security (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: Question 281: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 7 December 2006, if there is information in his Department regarding the boarding and searching of Warsaw Pact planes landing here during the 1960s and, in particular, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, as reported (details supplied); if these searches did take place, the basis on which...
- Health Service Reform: Motion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: I wish to share time with Deputies à Caoláin, Gregory, McHugh, Cowley, Catherine Murphy and James Breen.
- Health Service Reform: Motion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: Deputy Callanan said we have a good health system in that people in other countries must pay for care. Perhaps the Deputy will point out where that applies in Europe. Ireland is unusual in the European context in having a peculiar hybrid system. Essentially, the public sector pays for the private sector. Only 10% of the funding comes from health insurance; the rest is publicly funded....
- Health Service Reform: Motion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: We need more than monitoring; we need action.
- Health Service Reform: Motion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: This voluntary agreement was put in at the behest of the alcohol industryââ
- Health Service Reform: Motion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: The alcohol industry tells us not to put health warnings on bottlesââ
- Health Service Reform: Motion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: ââbecause they say it does not work. The industry recommendation on every bottle is to drink sensibly. If it does not work, why do they put it on bottles? I will conclude by saying that the privatisation agenda must end.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, once again mentioned climate change and, while I dealt with a number of issues in my opening remarks, I would like to return to this topic. What is the position of the Government on the Commission proposal to set a mandatory limit on CO2 emissions of 130 g per kilometre on all new cars from 2012? Does the Government support this...
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: Nobody would say that.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: The Government has a responsibility.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: It is completely untrue.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: I know because the Minister has said it before and it is in his stock literature.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: It is handed around all the time and it is not true.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: It is nonsense.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: The statement is untrue.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: That is nonsense.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: It is nonsense. It is completely untrue and the Minister should withdraw that.
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: Is that a gesture?
- European Council: Statements. (7 Feb 2007)
John Gormley: I did recently.