Results 9,361-9,380 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the Goldstone report on the conduct of the Gaza war. [7142/10]
- Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Is the Ceann Comhairle not giving us an opportunity?
- Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Ceann Comhairle is way ahead of himself.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I agree with Deputy Kenny that an opportunity should be provided in the House to discuss the financial situation in Europe with particular reference to the difficulties in Greece. When my colleague, Deputy Burton, asked the Tánaiste about this on Thursday, she indicated that while normally there are not statements after an informal EU summit, perhaps on this occasion, given the gravity of...
- Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Is that the Year of the Tiger?
- Order of Business (Resumed) (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: We have seen the back end of the Celtic tiger and we will see the back end of the Year of the Tiger for the holding of the by-elections.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is a repeat offender on this issue. Last spring, when SR Technics announced it would close down, the staff of SR Technics made a proposal whereby a package was put together which would continue aircraft maintenance and servicing. On 1 April 2009, I put it to the Taoiseach in this House that 900 of the jobs at SR Technics could be saved if the Government supported that proposal...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: That is all gobbledygook.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: It is gobbledygook.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: TEAM Aer Lingus separated from Aer Lingus a long time ago and was subsequently sold to SR Technics. It is nonsense to suggest now that some kind of property legacy remains through which Aer Lingus has a hold on hangar six.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The bottom line is that almost 1,200 people lost their jobs in a business that was viable. I acknowledge that certain issues had to be addressed and overcome and there was a necessity for modernisation. Everybody accepted that at the time. The maintenance and servicing of aircraft is a viable business but we have lost it. The Government lost it last April and it had ten months to conclude...
- Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I understand from the replies given by the Taoiseach during Question Time that it is intended the Minister for Defence will make a statement later this evening on this issue. I also understand that it is not intended that there would be any opportunity for questions to be put to the Minister for Defence or for any statements to be made in response to his statement to the House. That is not...
- Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not talking about the statement, a Cheann Comhairle. I have not heard the statement and I do not intend to talk about it until I have heard it. What I am talking about is the Order of Business the Taoiseach has put before us for today. I am explaining to you why I am opposing the Order of Business the Taoiseach has put before us. The reason I am opposing it is because there is a...
- Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: On that occasion the Government proposed a formula to the House. It was part of the Order of Business. The formula proposed was that a personal statement would be made by the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, which would not exceed 20 minutes, "after which the Minister shall take questions". Then there was a provision by which the questions would be brought to a conclusion.
- Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: The case I am making is that the Taoiseach should make a similar provision on today's Order of Business. There should be a proposal that the Minister for Defence makes a statement and takes questions for a time. Perhaps, having heard all of that, we might not have any need for the motion the Ceann Comhairle is inviting us all to table about the Minister.
- Order of Business (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: We might not be disposed at all to table a motion about him but we would like to hear what he has to say and to have the opportunity of putting questions to him. The House should be given that opportunity but an arrangement whereby the Minister comes in at some hour later tonight, makes a statement and then disappears without question or comment from anybody is not an acceptable way of...
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the projected cost of his Department's communications unit for 2010; if he is planning a change in the role of the communications unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3177/10]
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: In response to Deputy Kenny, the Taoiseach stated that he does not recall the communications unit bringing the issue of the Minister, Deputy O'Dea, to his attention. Did the communications unit bring this issue to his attention at any time? His response related to 21 December when the matter first appeared in newspapers. If he does not recall the communications unit bringing it to his...
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: No.
- Departmental Expenditure. (16 Feb 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: I am not-----