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- Financial Resolution No. 3: Carbon Charge on Mineral Oils (6 Dec 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: This measure exempts solid fuel such as peat briquettes, logs and coal from any increases in carbon tax. I do not understand the argument being made by some Deputies in respect of home heating oil that the measure should be brought forward. We have agreed it will not apply until May 2012.
- Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (27 Apr 2010)
Eamon Gilmore: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the co-firing targets including the three peat burning stations in the midlands and the likelihood of reaching the 30% target set out by him by 2015; if he will give assurances that house material, such as woodchip, would be sourced for these stations indigenously rather than being...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)
Eamon Gilmore: ...productivity and social objectives. There is no better investment, for example, than universal pre-school education but it is also a highly important anti-poverty measure. The Labour Party has repeatedly called for this basic provision for our children. It is not expensive in the greater scheme of things and could be implemented over a number of years. Against that objective, the...
- Planning and Development Regulations: Motion. (29 Jun 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: There is a different reason, which I will come to in a moment. The motion has the potential to cause uproar in rural areas. The proposals before the House relating to peat extraction are a Trojan horse. The Minister may be right in saying that the proposals arise from the judgment of the European Court of Justice and the prospect that this country will face a daily fine of â¬26,000 if the...
- Planning and Development Regulations: Motion. (29 Jun 2005)
Eamon Gilmore: ...to apply for a separate planning permission? I note this is listed in the definition of what is being exempted from the definition of a shop. The second area turfed in, so to speak, with the peat extraction issue which is the reason for this motion, is the Aarhus Convention. What is delaying the implementation of the convention and why is only a portion of it being given effect in these...