Results 1,301-1,320 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have it here. The vote was taken on 20 November last, so we do not have to go back to 2010. Twenty-five Deputies, including Deputy Joan Collins and Deputy Billy Kelleher, voted against exiting the bailout.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Deputy Finian McGrath was clever enough - he voted the right way. He got it right.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: Down there for dancing, Finian. Well done. However, the rest of them - the troika 25 who voted to keep us in the bailout - I am not taking any lectures from them this morning on economics, blank cheques or anything else.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: They did. Not, Finian. Finian got it right, and Mick and Ming got it right, but the rest of them got it wrong.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 11a, Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013 - Financial Resolution; No. 1a, Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 23, Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 11a shall be decided without debate.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill will be at committee next week. That will give Deputy Kelleher ample opportunity to raise whatever issues he wants to raise in regard to it.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The employment permits Bill is due for publication this session.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: As part of Dáil reform, it is the Government's intention to ensure the heads of Bills go to committee in the first instance. Some Bills are at the heads stage and others are at a drafting stage, so it depends on where Bills are. We are in the transition phase in respect of doing that. The Deputy spoke about three pieces of legislation. Maidir leis an Bille teanga, foilsíodh...
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is intended that this Bill will go to the Seanad in the first instance to get its first reading. It will then be brought to the Dáil. It will come here when it has been completed in the Seanad. It will happen reasonably soon but I do not have an exact date. It is a matter for the other House.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That Bill is expected next year.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The biggest liability people of this country have is the legacy Fianna Fáil left them.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The environmental liability Bill is expected in mid-2014.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: We might replay the All Blacks match. I do not have a date for the publication of the industrial relations (amendment) (No. 2) Bill.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That Bill is expected next year.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I join Deputy Grealish in congratulating the Garda on its success in those cases. I do not have a date for the publication of that Bill.
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I have answered the question about the industrial relations (amendment) (No. 2) Bill. In respect of the threatened strike in the ESB, I hope the discussions that have commenced between management and unions will be successful in resolving that issue.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Financial Resolution (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I move: THAT section 125A of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 (No. 31 of 1999), which imposes a levy on authorised insurers, be amended in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The solution is for an engagement between the bank and the borrower so that a solution can be found as quickly as possible. That is the approach the Government supports and that the Central Bank requires banks to implement.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has extended the deadline for submissions on the pylons issue to 7 January. I encourage the Deputy to submit, as part of that process, the information he has given and the case he has made in the House. It is important the consultative process is full and all the information and cases that people have to make on this issue are made and considered. There is another issue that...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has extended the consultation period to 7 January and I encourage everybody who has an interest in the issue to make their case in advance of that deadline. Nobody should be constrained about what case they make. People who have an interest in this issue, whether public representatives or members of the public, people who are likely to be affected by it or who have an opinion...