Results 15,261-15,280 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Deputy.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: It is no discomfort at all.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: That is not true.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: That is right. The county manager does it.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The charge had already been levied.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: What section of the Act was that in?

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Deputy give way?

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I have thought it through better than the Deputy when——

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Transport if the promised safety barriers along the middle of the M50 have been fitted; if these barriers will be permanently in place along the motorway; if they are a temporary measure; his plans to fit such safety barriers on other major roads throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4783/05]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to new figures from research carried out by a company (details supplied) that fewer than half of motorists are now driving more carefully as a result of the penalty points system; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the absence of any high visible Garda fear-factor enforcement, random breath...

Written Answers — European Year of Citizenship: European Year of Citizenship (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 474: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action and initiatives which are being undertaken by her Department, for the European year of citizenship through education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4691/05]

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister should try practising it.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: They had no say in the scheme.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The Deputy's party is in government and it should introduce it.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I move: That Dáil Éireann: —calls on the Government to introduce a uniform national waiver scheme for domestic refuse charges in view of: —the way in which the decision of the Government in 2003 to transfer responsibility for setting waste charges from democratically elected councillors to local authority managers has led to a very significant increase in the level of charges; —the...

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: The purpose of this motion is to persuade the Government to introduce a national waiver scheme for domestic waste charges, to apply to households with low income. Tens of thousands of households have refuse collection bills they simply cannot afford to pay. These include pensioners, the widowed, people dependent on social welfare, workers on low wages, large families or parents of children...

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Was that the programme for which the Minister failed to appear?

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: I heard the Minister was invited to appear.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: That is not correct. The Minister is misleading the House.

Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion. (15 Feb 2005)

Eamon Gilmore: Will the Minister give way?