Results 12,081-12,100 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: In response to the various questions, the Taoiseach stated the Government has priorities. I want to come back to the two questions I asked about tax issues. Are issues such as the 1% reduction in the top rate and 2% reduction in the standard rate of tax, the promised 2% reduction in PRSI payments and the promised reduction in VAT rates on environmental goods and services from 21% to 13.5%...

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: They are gone.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: No, I am only interpreting it.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Is the Taoiseach saying to all the working people who voted Fianna Fáil in the last election on the basis of its promises to reduce their tax and PRSI payments and to the people purchasing environmental services in response to the many advertisements by Government in respect of our being more environmentally friendly that they should have read the small print?

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: No, it is not.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: May I ask the Taoiseach a simple question? The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance at the time.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Whatever about the rest of us knowing the score in regard to the state of the public finances, the Taoiseach, as then Minister for Finance, had to have had a better knowledge of the situation than the rest of us or anybody else in the country. Why did he allow his party leader at the time to make a promise in respect of, for example, a 2% reduction in PRSI when he knew that there was not a...

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It was a naked political promise designed to cod people. Fianna Fáil had no intention of delivering on it because it knew it could not do so. It was a lie.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It was a lie.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach has abandoned the proposal.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: It has been abandoned because it cannot be delivered.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach, as Minister for Finance at the time, knew it could not be delivered.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach was Minister for Finance at the time.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach, as Minister for Finance, did know more than the rest of us.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach, as Minister for Finance, knew more than the rest of us. He knew those promises could never be delivered.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach knew those promises could not be delivered. He is now, some 12 months later——

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Changed circumstances.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach, as Minister for Finance, was managing the public finances.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Every taxi driver in Dublin could tell the Taoiseach the construction boom could not continue at the rate it was going.

Programmes for Government. (2 Jul 2008)

Eamon Gilmore: Planning applications were falling. The Taoiseach, as Minister for Finance, knew where we were heading.