Results 12,881-12,900 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: How will they be described in the school accounts? I wish to raise a different issue with the Taoiseach. Last Thursday, after the Order of Business in the House, the Opposition parties were informed of the Government's intention to introduce emergency legislation in the House this week to protect the legal status of 19 agencies established under one of the Health Acts because the Attorney...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: That is not an emergency.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: What is the hurry with the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I will assist the Taoiseach even more with it. I would be quite happy to reinforce the legal underpinning of the agencies in question quite speedily but the legislation that has been published contains an entire four pages that deal with the legal obstacle that arose regarding the transfer of the lands at Beaumont and St. James's hospitals for the purpose of establishing co-located...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: When did the Government receive the original legal advice that there was a legal obstacle concerning the transfer of the lands at Beaumont and St. James's hospitals? I have been told it received it early last summer before it concluded a programme for Government with the Green Party and before Deputy Finian McGrath signed up to it. In order to save their blushes this evening over having to...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: We will agree on those.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: We are dealing with taxpayers' money here. It is wrong in principle that the Appropriation Bill 2007 should be passed without debate. However, dealing with it in circumstances where it has only just been published, if it all, is extraordinary.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: This Bill is being introduced in the form of emergency legislation to provide political cover for its real intent, which is to legislate for the transfer of public hospital lands for the construction of co-located hospitals. If it was a genuine emergency, the Government would have acted on it a while ago, since it received advice from the Attorney General on the issue back in October. There...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: It is the new parliamentary tactic that when a matter is politically tricky, it is introduced as close as possible to Christmas and rushed through by a guillotine motion in the hope that people will forget about it. The Labour Party will not agree to this and opposes the proposal on the Order of Business.
- Northern Ireland Issues. (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his plans for the future of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation. [29415/07]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I have two questions for the Taoiseach arising from his reply. With regard to the North-South parliamentary forum, my understanding of the communiqué issued on 17 July following the North-South Ministerial Council meeting in Armagh was that the two Governments would take the initiative to contact the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Oireachtas with a view to progressing the establishment...
- Northern Ireland Issues. (18 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I fully understand the position in which the Taoiseach finds himself on this matter. I can understand the various signals and messages he must give in this regard. I was pleased to hear what he said, namely, that he was not reflecting in any way on the character of Paul Quinn when he made his remarks. Will the Taoiseach confirm on the record of the House that, as Paul Quinn's family stated...
- Written Answers — Prison Discipline: Prison Discipline (13 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures being planned by the Irish Prison Service for the introduction of mobile phone jamming equipment; the reason this plan is necessary if adequate measures are in place to prevent the smuggling of mobile phones into prisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34526/07]
- Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (13 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the concerns expressed by a person (details supplied) that the building of large scale prisons, such as Thornton Hall, will do nothing to reduce violence in prisons and that smaller units are a better way to minimise violence and provide opportunities for rehabilitation; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Under the Standards in Public Office Act 2001, this House is required to pass a resolution appointing a former Member of the Houses of the Oireachtas to the Standards in Public Office Commission. When this arose six years ago there was agreement in the House and former Member and Minister Liam Kavanagh was appointed to the commission. Yesterday, during Question Time, I asked the Taoiseach...
- Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Second, I object strongly to the fact that there has been no consultation on this matter. I want to make it clear that, when the resolution required to appoint former Deputy Michael Smith as a member of the commission is brought before the House, the Labour Party will oppose it in these circumstances. I say this with some regret because it is a matter on which there should be agreement in...
- Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: Is it intended to move the resolution next week?
- Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: This is not about Deputy Michael Smith's personal suitability or otherwise for appointment. Actually, he is former Deputy Michael Smith. He was a recent Member of the House and I still refer to him as "Deputy Smith". I have the height of regard for him and I do not want to make an issue of him, but a number of elements are the wrong way around. First, the Act requires that the appointment...
- Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: I did not say that.
- Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: No, it does not.