Results 14,641-14,660 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: With regard to the projected cost, is the cost of €55.5 million per year the worst case scenario? The Minister stated that we must close a gap of 8 million tonnes of carbon to meet our Kyoto Protocol target in six years' time. Hence, will we achieve an annual reduction in the order of 1.5 million tonnes of carbon between now and 2012? Will the Minister indicate to the House how that will be...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Is that the worst case scenario?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I have simply asked a question.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: While I am aware that this is a commitment period, its final year is now only six years' away. We have a gap of 8 million tonnes of carbon to close. We have not done very well in the past five years since the climate change strategy was published. The Minister has avoided answering the question on the worst case scenario for the obvious reason that he does not want to admit what I have...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Including buying its way out of it.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: With taxpayers' money. How much taxpayers' money will be spent?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: How will the Minister be able to look his UK counterparts in the eye and lecture them about nuclear energy when this country, under his stewardship, is failing to meet its commitments on carbon reduction under the Kyoto Protocol?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: They are increases. We are 25% over the target level and the rest of Europe is 7% under.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: We have one of the worst records in Europe in regard to carbon emissions.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 9: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the UK Government has cancelled all it plans to run trials of electronic voting in advance of UK local elections in 2006; if, in view of this, he intends to abandon the electronic voting project altogether; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36644/05]

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a great relief to hear the Government has appointed consultants to examine the security of electronic voting and to conduct a risk assessment.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: It will reassure the country. The British Government sensibly decided to carry out tests of electronic voting before committing itself to using electronic voting in elections. The last tests were in 2003 and more trials were scheduled for 2004, but these were abandoned on the advice of the electoral commission. They have now abandoned the whole idea. Whatever the Minister may think of the...

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: They are used in Florida.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: If only the Minister had listened to me in the first place.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: We could sell them. Is there a market for electronic voting machines?

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: How much are the services of the consultants who have been appointed to check on the machines, see if they are affected by damp and ensure that nobody is trying to steal or copy the patents, which would cost the taxpayer on top of the other wasted funding for these machines?

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: That is true.

Election Management System. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Deputy O'Dea will look after them.

Litter Pollution. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I was surprised that this question was not answered by the Minister of State with responsibility for environmental protection, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. I was interested to note his comments at the weekend opposing incineration. As this question relates to waste matters and as the Minister of State has not had an opportunity to contribute during Priority Questions today, will the Minister, Deputy...

Litter Pollution. (29 Nov 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: There was one message in Ringaskiddy and another in Ringsend.