Results 12,961-12,980 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Commemorative Events. (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the way the money allocated by his Department for commemoration initiatives during 2008 will be allocated; if he is considering allocating any of this money for a national commemoration of the Famine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29414/07]

Commemorative Events. (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I welcome what the Taoiseach said about the plans to commemorate the Great Famine. That is appropriate and the way he proposes to go about it is the right way. Does he anticipate that preparations will be sufficiently advanced to have a commemoration of the Great Famine in 2008? In respect of the commemoration of the flight of the earls, it is quite interesting to hear the Taoiseach's...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach indicated he would agree to a debate in the House on the MacEntee report on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. When will that take place? In reply to a question I posed earlier, the Taoiseach referred to the Fines Bill. What is the current position vis-À-vis that legislation? Will the Taoiseach also indicate when the promised domestic partnership Bill is due to be published?

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I wish to raise a different law enforcement issue. Last Wednesday, my Labour Party colleague, Deputy Broughan, asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for the numbers of warrants which have been issued by the courts for the arrest of persons throughout the country. The reply he received is amazing. According to the reply Deputy Broughan received there are 111,453 warrants...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I note the Taoiseach finds it difficult to believe the figures, for which I do not blame him. However, the figures on which I rely were provided in response to a parliamentary question. That reply from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform stated: "The number of bench warrants, penal warrants and committal warrants which were recorded on the PULSE system as being on hand on 25...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: That is a separate issue.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not the bench warrants; it is the penal warrants.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the degree of progress for the completion of his Department's technical review of the social welfare code to examine its compatibility with the Equal Status Act 2000; the cost of the project to date; the reason this review is being handled in part by parties outside his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of recipients of rent allowance by the duration of the claim with a breakdown for those under 12 months, above 12 months and at six monthly intervals above that. [32203/07]

EU Issues. (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Taoiseach for that reply. In connection with the agenda for the summit, is it intended that there will be a discussion on relations between the EU and Russia? Does he anticipate that consideration will be given to the unease expressed by election monitors about the conduct of the recent Russian elections or will there be space on the agenda for consideration of that matter?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Does the Taoiseach accept that what we have heard over the past week further undermines his credibility and erodes his authority? We heard Mr. Padraic O'Connor last week giving sworn evidence which tears apart the carefully constructed accounts of the dig-outs that the Taoiseach gave to Brian Dobson on RTE in September 2006. We have heard claims from the former chairman of the national...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I did not, I raised an issue about 2007. What dates will the Taoiseach appear before the tribunal?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I did not ask the Taoiseach about 1994. The Taoiseach will have plenty of time to answer about 1994 when he goes to Dublin Castle.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: I did not.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not appear to have a good memory either. What days will he appear before the tribunal?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach is running for cover.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: Put it on the record of the House.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: That is not the question

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: We seem always to get only half answers from the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Eamon Gilmore: He now tells us he gave some type of half-hearted approval for the casino.