Results 1,901-1,920 of 15,491 for speaker:Eamon Gilmore
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill will be introduced after the budget. The content is a budgetary matter and nobody could expect me to talk about the detail of it.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is going to committee in October.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The question concerned secondary legislation and I do not have a note on the issue. I will ask the Minister for Finance to respond to the Deputy.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: There is pyrite levy Bill due for publication this session. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is bringing a submission to the Government on the issue next week.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Road Traffic (No. 2) Act 2011 is already part of law.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I do not have a date for the publication of the Bill.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources completed a value-for-money policy review on the proposals earlier this year and the Minister launched a public consultation on the proposals on 27 August. The consultation will run until 8 October, and following that the Minister will bring legislative proposals to the Government by the end of the year.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I understand the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, is working on the Charities Act. The international tax agreements legislation is expected next year. The Minister, Deputy Shatter, is also working on the preparation of the bail Bill and it will come before the Government when he completes the preparation.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Bill to provide a revised scheme for compensating gardaí maliciously injured in their work is expected to be published early next year.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: That legislation will come before the House this session.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I understand the tenant purchase issue is to be part of housing legislation to be introduced next year. There is an electoral (amendment) Bill due later this session but my understanding is it will address boundaries for European elections.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Whips regularly consider the various proposals on the Order Paper to see when they can be moved, and that is why we have Private Members' time. Every Member has the right to speak in this House and every Member has the right to attend any committee.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The heads of the Bill were approved by the Government in July and we expect to have it this session.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I want to answer it in that fashion. The Deputy says we have targeted medical card holders. He wants to give the impression that the Government is taking medical cards from people. I have told the Deputy that it is a fact that more medical cards have been issued under this Government than has ever happened before.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: I cannot deal with specific cases unless the Deputy provides me with the detail. If the Deputy wishes to give me the detail of specific cases-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: If the Deputy wishes to give specific cases we will deal with specific cases but that is not what he is doing; he is making a political charge. He also has made a wild charge about losing jobs. The jobs were lost by the previous Government at a rate of 250,000 in the three years before this Government took office. In the past 12 months alone, over 30,000 additional jobs have been created...
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: It is proposed to take No. 14a, motion re referral to joint committee of the fourth programme of law reform; No. 15, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013 (Commencement) Order 2013; No. 22, Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Order for Report, Report...
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: This is an area about which Deputy Martin is knowledgeable because this was the area related to the brief which he did not read.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The HSE has committed in the national service plan to maintain the home help and home care package. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, has brought forward a range of initiatives in this area. I do not think there is any specific area of legislation promised. The programme for Government is being implemented and will be implemented and completed in the lifetime of the Government.
- Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)
Eamon Gilmore: The Government has not changed its mind with regard to collective bargaining legislation. The programme for Government commitment on collective bargaining legislation will be delivered on. That is the reason the Bill is listed in the legislative programme-----