Results 13,781-13,800 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: If he does not succeed, it must be found somewhere or it must be paid for. Of course, the 3.6 million tonnes a year in allowances which the Minister is already committing to buy will also need to be increased if he does not achieve the reductions of 8 million tonnes a year which he hopes to achieve through all of the various worthy measures he outlined. My difficulty with him not achieving...
- Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: ââthat it really does not matter; we can continue to pollute but because we now have money we can buy the right to pollute from poorer people. Carbon allowances and credits come from a framework whereby we have three worlds on this globe. A quarter of the world's population does not have electricity. These are poor people who are not contributing to global warming through carbon...
- Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund: Motion (30 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government's attitude is to say that since we are not contributing much to pollution anyway, we can buy our way out of it. There are two problems with that, however. The first is that buying our way out of it will cost Irish taxpayers a lot of money. At a conservative estimate it will cost â¬500 million between now and 2012, which might otherwise be available for hospitals, schools,...
- Written Answers — Food Safety Standards: Food Safety Standards (29 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if Ireland's 2006 annual residue monitoring plan was approved by the European Commission on 18 October 2006; and if she will provide this Deputy with a copy of same. [40545/06]
- Noise Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish to share time with Deputies Naughten, Gormley and Eamon Ryan.
- Noise Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party supports the Bill. I compliment my constituency colleague, Deputy Cuffe, for bringing it before the House. It is not the first time this has been debated here. I recall a number of occasions during debates on planning and environmental protection Bills when amendments were proposed to provide for some form of regulation of noise pollution. My most recent efforts were on...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (29 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: I wish to express my appreciation to the Minister for holding the fort yesterday when I was unavoidably absent and, thus, unable to move amendment No. 30a. I wish to speak to that amendment now, however, along with the others being taken with it. For some time, the Labour Party has sought an extension to the deadline for people submitting amendments to the draft register. Given the...
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will continue to pay home tuition grants to parents of children with autism who wish to use those grants to provide an ABA educational programme for their children delivered by persons with ABA, rather than education qualifications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40135/06]
- Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to her Department of buying and leasing prefabs in the 2005 to 2006 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40136/06]
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, line 20, to delete "place" and substitute "constituency". This amendment arises from a submission that the Labour Party received from the Irish Penal Reform Trust. The submission drew my attention to the possibility that many prisoners were homeless before they were committed to prison. The Bill currently proposes to deem, for the purposes of registering...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: I am disappointed the Minister has not agreed to accept the amendment. I foresee that there will be practical difficulties in this regard. As homeless people do not have addresses, we cannot know the addresses at which they will be registered. When the Minister speaks again on this amendment, perhaps he will indicate whether it is intended to require that any given prisoner will be on the...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: Is it not the case that a person does not have to be registered at his or her own address?
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: It could be that, or it could be an inadvertent discovery.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: I will accept the promise on guidelines and I will not press the amendment.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: I move amendment No. 16: In page 4, line 46, to delete "shall" and substitute "may be required to". This amendment deals with the documentation. There is a degree of overkill in requiring all imprisoned applicants to submit all of their documentation, as many of them will not be in a position to do so. The amendment would make the furnishing of such information discretionary rather than...
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: I agree with colleagues that this matter should be debated in the House. It is proposed to refer this for consideration by the Select Committee on Environment and Local Government tomorrow following which there would be a 20 minute debate on Thursday morning. Perhaps a way to deal with this would be to extend the 20 minute debate on Thursday morning to allow the House an adequate debate....
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: The schedule on Thursday is not exactly overloaded with legislation. We are not overburdened with legislation from the Government at present. If the morning period were given to it, then that would probably deal with it.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: The motion asks permission from the House to bring in last minute legislation to deal with a mess created by the Government, particularly by this Minister. The amendment we are being asked to allow to be debated tonight is so late that its request to extend the deadline dates for registration must be backdated to 25 November. The irony is that the amendment the Minister is now asking the...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: What does the Deputy mean by "successive" Governments?
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee (28 Nov 2006)
Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy should stop cosying up to them. He should stop cosying up to Fianna Fáil as a prelude.