Results 1,221-1,240 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The plan was submitted on 25 November and the Minister for Health has 21 days in which to consider it. My understanding is that the period of 21 days will expire on 16 December and between now and then I expect the Minister to bring the plan to the Government with his recommendations for what he intends to do with it. Thereafter the plan will be published and I expect that there will be...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That is something we can consider. The plan must first be considered by the Minister and then by the Government. As it must then be published, let us cross that fence when we come to it.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I cannot because we do not have the------
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There may well be grounds for reviewing the Government's jobs strategy. We are ahead of the job creation target we set in the Action Plan for Jobs - 100,000 jobs. We are now two thirds of the way through the period of that plan which is to last until the end of 2015 and are ahead of our targets. Obviously, I am concerned about the announcement made this morning in Newbridge and my thoughts...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The inland fisheries (modernisation and consolidation) Bill will modernise and consolidate existing provisions of legislation governing the inland fisheries sector. A working group, comprising the Department and Inland Fisheries Ireland, is developing the heads of that Bill which is expected next year.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy should not rush to judgment; one would never know what one might catch.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Angling requires a degree of patience.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The gambling control Bill is due late next year. I am appearing before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade this afternoon and if the Deputy cares to turn up and ask me the questions about the Ukraine, I will be happy to answer them.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill was published on 19 July. As it is awaiting Second Stage, it just a matter of arranging time to debate it in the House.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill is due next year, but the heads have not yet been considered by the Government.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister is to bring forward a revised scheme for the health information Bill in view of policy developments. It is not possible to indicate when the Bill will be published, nor am I in a position to indicate its contents.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Donnelly used two phrases that registered with me. First, he described banks as acting rationally, and second, he said that this is the banking model. I disagree with him in this respect. I believe that was the banking model. That was the approach one would have expected from banks acting rationally. As he knows, and as we all do, when the banks were acting rationally in that way,...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We are in a situation, therefore, in which the banks, largely because of the commitment made to them and the fact that they were bailed out by the State using taxpayers’ money, have a community responsibility, a social responsibility - call it what one will. I believe that responsibility is in large part measured - Deputy Donnelly gave some of the figures earlier - by the amounts...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 19, Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Report and Final Stages (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that in the event a division is in progress at the time fixed for taking Private Members' business, which shall be No. 128, motion re electricity infrastructure (resumed), the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. and Private...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: As the Leas-Cheann Comhairle stated, there is a procedure for raising issues when a Deputy is unhappy about what has been put on the record of the House. I urge Deputy Martin to use that procedure. I cannot have a photographic memory of everything said on 20 November and every figure given. I encourage the Deputy to go down that road.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: ----saying what he has said. Regarding the proposal from Sinn Féin for dealing with the past, a process is now under way, under Dr. Haass, and we should all participate in that.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have discussed this directly with Deputy Adams in meetings I have had with him in his capacity as leader of Sinn Féin. Sinn Féin should engage fully with the process-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: -----as I know it is doing.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Yes, I know it is engaging fully in the Haass process. This Government will also engage with it. We need to deal with the past, comprehensively. We should see the Haass process through. A number of proposals have been put forward as to how to deal with the past and we should all engage conclusively with that. The most important point is that while we have to deal with the past, we should...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister for Finance, on behalf of the State, has concluded negotiations on the sale and redemption of preference shares in Bank of Ireland. This transaction will see the State recouping a premium on the initial €1.837 billion investment. A press release was issued this morning to mark the start of the sale process. The sale and redemption processes are currently under way and...