Results 11,061-11,080 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: It is very specific. We were asked to nationalise a bank while the Government knew that the real financial position of that bank was not as had been publicly stated.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: That does not answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach should answer the question.
- Official Gifts. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the guidelines that exist in regard to the acceptance of hospitality by Ministers from State agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46104/08]
- Official Gifts. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: These questions arose from the controversy that developed following revelations about FÃS involving trips to Florida and the expenses incurred, about who travelled and who paid for what. It emerged that the statutory responsibility for approving the scheme of expenses rested with the Minister. Without going back over the detail about who travelled where, we need to first establish a few...
- Freedom of Information. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information applications received in his Department during 2008; the way these figures compare with the same period in each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1005/09]
- Freedom of Information. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The last time the House discussed this matter on Question Time, I asked the Taoiseach about the Information Commissioner's decision, which was made on foot of a freedom of information request, to release documents that were used during Cabinet discussions on Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions. The Taoiseach told me on that occasion, in October 2008, that it was intended to appeal the...
- Freedom of Information. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: When I asked the Taoiseach about this matter on 21 October 2008, I note the record states that the Information Commission had recently made a decision that documents relating to the Cabinet's consideration of Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions should be released. The Freedom of Information Commissioner considered that European Union access to information rules and regulations, including...
- Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he next intends to visit the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46102/08]
- Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the matters discussed in his recent telephone conversation with the then President-elect, Barack Obama; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46103/08]
- Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the communications he has had with Barack Obama since his inauguration as President of the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3045/09]
- Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he has plans to meet the newly inaugurated President of the United States, Barack Obama. [3046/09]
- Irish-US Relations. (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I heard the Taoiseach outline what he expects his programme to be when he visits the United States on St. Patrick's Day. Does he intend to meet President Obama during that visit? For a number of years there has been a tradition of making a presentation of shamrock in the White House. Will that occur this year? Will it still be presented in Waterford crystal?
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: I support Deputy Kenny's request. I appreciate what the Ceann Comhairle said about the normal procedures that apply in the House. However, the Taoiseach's response to my question earlier this morning was extraordinary. The Taoiseach acknowledged that he and the Government knew about the â¬7 billion transfer of money or loan â call it what one wants â to Anglo Irish Bank, the effect...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: On 30 September the Labour Party stood alone and opposed the blanket guarantee the Government proposed for the banks. We did so because we believed we were not being told the full story and that the taxpayer was not being told what was involved with that guarantee. It turns out we did not know the half of it. It turns out on that very day, Irish Life & Permanent was shuffling â¬4 billion...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The bank moved â¬7 billion by way of a loan into Anglo Irish Bank to make the latter's accounts look good.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: It was effectively a financial three card trick, the dig out to beat all dig outs. Why would it not do so? There was no risk involved for the bank, because the taxpayer was taking the risk. It could lend Anglo Irish Bank billions of euro. It was our money and if it went wrong, we would pick it up. The Government could impose some more levies on working people to get it back. It appears...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: The former chief executive of the Financial Regulator, which was supposed to be keeping an eye on all of this for us, now walks off with an enormous golden handshake. The Government, which presided over all of this, imposes levy after levy on hard working people to pay for this largesse. Does the Taoiseach have any idea of the degree of anger which exists among people, especially working...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: It is unbelievable that at the very time it was introducing a blanket guarantee, the Government was not aware such inter-bank lending arrangements were taking place before our very eyes. The Taoiseach made a very interesting comment on the day of the bank guarantee, to which I refer. The Taoiseach stated he would expect that the banks would help each other out. I remember that comment,...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2009)
Eamon Gilmore: Did the Government encourage the payment of these loans, or what was the extent of its knowledge of the position? When did it first come to the attention of the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance?