Results 14,381-14,400 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy is out of touch.

Rent Supplement: Motion (Resumed). (15 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: It is nearly nothing.

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 116: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average percentage of retail prices of electrical goods which is attributable to the environmental management charge as specified by regulations under the EU WEEE directive; the projected revenue from this charge for the first year of the scheme based on this figure; if the projected revenue exceeds the...

Written Answers — Register of Electors: Register of Electors (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 191: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received a request from local authorities for additional resources to assist in the compilation of the electoral register; the local authorities which have made such a request; his response to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5327/06]

Written Answers — Port Development: Port Development (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 429: To ask the Minister for Transport the new policy for ports which has been agreed by Government; if it is intended to discontinue the appointment of local authority members to the board of port companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4970/06]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 608: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of completed affordable housing transactions to date in 2006 under the 1999 affordable housing scheme, Part V of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2002 and the Sustaining Progress agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5383/06]

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: That Dáil Éireann, recognising that: —due to high house prices, inadequate provision of social and affordable housing, and increased rents in the private rented sector, there are now approximately 60,000 households dependent on rent supplement; and —the rent supplement as currently administered is causing serious poverty traps and disincentive to work; calls on the Government to...

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Spending went up everywhere.

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government changed the way it counted them.

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Pure fantasy.

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The Government changed the way the figures were counted. It juggled with them.

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not working.

Rent Supplement: Motion. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: What will the Government do in the meantime?

Building Control Bill 2005: Second Stage. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: That is unparliamentary language. Is the Minister not obliged to withdraw what he said?

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: I understood the national spatial strategy would have to be driven and I recollect that the Minister's Department was to be the lead engine in driving it. Will he tell us how this is done? I do not see anybody in charge of the strategy. I hear it mentioned from time to time but cannot recall a single decision made by a planning authority or the Government that would not have been made in any...

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Decentralisation——

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: That concentrated development in Dublin.

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: The national spatial strategy was to spread development to the regions.

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: Are we to have an IKEA at every gateway?

National Spatial Strategy. (14 Feb 2006)

Eamon Gilmore: They are moving back into the city centres in the United Kingdom.