Results 15,301-15,320 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not agree.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: There is a significant difference between the estimated figure of 73,000 and the rate of output achieved by the Government.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I have one final question. The Minister of State has said this is a matter for the Government. When does he expect to bring his proposals arising from the NESC report to Government?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Does this mean the Minister of State has read the report?
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: It sounds like the Minister of State has read it and not agreed with its recommendations. Now he seems to be trying to find a way to avoid implementing them.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: That is an energetic plan.
- Social and Affordable Housing. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: We will return to this issue.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister should give an answer.
- Departmental Procurement Policies. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: There is our answer.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm the statement he made on a recent television programme (details supplied) that it is intended to proceed with the construction of a municipal waste incinerator at Poolbeg, Dublin; the planning or approval process which is envisaged for this process; the approximate date by which the...
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: I thank the Minister for his reply which sets out the procedures that will need to be followed to allow an incinerator to be built in Poolbeg. From his answer, can I take it that the Minister is confirming what he recently told Ursula Halligan on her television programme that the incinerator in Poolbeg will proceed?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: We know all that.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: From the Minister's reply, can I take it that no political decision has been made by the Minister or the Government not to build the incinerator in Poolbeg?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Will it be included within the remit of the legislation to fast-track infrastructure projects?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: The Minister has announced that he will shortly introduce legislation to fast-track infrastructural projects. Has a decision been made, as reported, to exclude the Poolbeg incinerator from the remit of that legislation?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Based on what the Minister has said, am I to understand that the long planning process and the licensing process which will inevitably surround the proposed incinerator in Poolbeg would be completed before we see the legislation on critical infrastructure?
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Does it then follow that every project, incinerator, road or whatever that is already in a planning process will not be covered by the infrastructure legislation? The newspapers have reported that at the insistence of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the Government has decided to take the proposed Poolbeg incinerator out of the scope of proposed infrastructure Bill. I will...
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: That is why I am asking.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: From what the Minister is saying, it looks like or seems it will be built before the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform leaves office.
- Waste Management. (9 Feb 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: Not if we have anything to do with it.