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Eamon Gilmore

Eamon Gilmore

Eamon Gilmore is the current Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and trade. He is the Leader of the Labour Party and a TD for the Dun Laoghaire constituency, a seat which he has held since June 1989.

# eamon-gilmore - Monday 12 November, 2012

‘Day of the week didn’t cause low turnout,’ insists TD who backs weekend voting

Alan Farrell hopes to introduce legislation that would see all elections and referenda held on weekends or rest days and insists he has not been deterred by Saturday’s low turnout.

# eamon-gilmore - Sunday 11 November, 2012

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PHOTOS: Enda Kenny lays wreath at Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen

It is the first time the leader of the Republic of Ireland has attended a ceremony in Northern Ireland on Remembrance Sunday.

Gilmore: Children’s Referendum “never really took fire”

Meanwhile, Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald defended her role in leading the referendum campaign.

# eamon-gilmore - Friday 9 November, 2012

Taoiseach and Tánaiste to attend Remembrance Day ceremonies

Kenny will participate in a service in Eniskillen while the Tánaiste is due to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph in Belfast.

# eamon-gilmore - Thursday 8 November, 2012

Gilmore says €500,000 salaries for bank executives is “not acceptable”

The Tánaiste’s comments follow the release of figures that show six current executives at the former Anglo Irish Bank earn over half a million euro a year.

# eamon-gilmore - Monday 5 November, 2012

Uganda commits to repaying €4m in misappropriated Irish Aid funds

Two senior government officials are on remand facing prosecution, while 17 have been suspended without pay while investigations continue into the misappropriation.

At last: Constitutional Convention to hold first meeting in December

The first meeting of the Constitutional Convention was delayed as the Government searched for a chairperson – but it’s now set to meet at the start of December

# eamon-gilmore - Saturday 3 November, 2012

Prospect of future Saturday voting determined by Children’s Referendum turnout

The Tánaiste has urged young people to vote in the upcoming referendum.

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Poll: Should voting in elections and referendums be held on Saturdays?

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said future Saturday votes will depend on the turnout in next week’s referendum. Do you support holding votes on Saturdays?

# eamon-gilmore - Monday 29 October, 2012

Public Accounts Committee member wants probe into Irish overseas aid

Fine Gael TD Simon Harris has called for the powerful Dáil committee to investigate Irish overseas aid following the misappropriation of millions of euro sent to Uganda.

# eamon-gilmore - Sunday 28 October, 2012

Ugandan prime minister: ‘I didn’t receive misappropriated Irish money’

Amama Mbabazi says while some Irish funds were “fraudulently paid to private accounts”, some was used for its intended aims.

# eamon-gilmore - Saturday 27 October, 2012

Here is the week’s news… skewed

Breaking via The Mire wire: Ice-cream for children’s votes? Tayto Park as possible children’s hospital site? European ‘Rear of the Year’ award for the Taoiseach?

# eamon-gilmore - Friday 26 October, 2012

Tánaiste to discuss Irish bank debt with German foreign minister

Gilmore will spend a number of days in Germany, where he will speak on the topic of ‘Moving beyond the crisis – a shared future in Europe’ at a German political foundation.

# eamon-gilmore - Thursday 25 October, 2012

The Evening Fix… now with beheaded Halloween trickery

Here are the things we loved, learned and shared today.

Ireland suspends aid to Uganda after report suggests €4m fraud

Eamon Gilmore has launched an immediate investigation amid suggestions the office of the Prime Minister misappropriated funds.

Government “considering legal advice” over mobility allowance

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said today that the government will be seeking legal advice before it proceeds on acting on the “illegal” upper age limit for the allowance.

# eamon-gilmore - Wednesday 24 October, 2012

Drumroll please: Chair of the Constitutional Convention is…. Tom Arnold

The Constitutional Convention had been due to begin meeting this month but had been delayed due to the search for a chairperson.

# eamon-gilmore - Tuesday 23 October, 2012

Decision on children’s hospital due ‘in two or three weeks’ – Kenny

Enda Kenny says he hasn’t yet met with James Reilly and Eamon Gilmore about the site, but will do so soon.

# eamon-gilmore - Sunday 21 October, 2012

Ireland will work to make transgender rights an international issue – Gilmore

The Tánaiste tells a European forum in Dublin that it will use its chairmanship of the OSCE to highlight trans issues.

Automatic service would remind people when their passport is expiring

The Passport Service is looking at the possibility of implementing an automatic reminder service that would alert passport holders by text or email that their document is due for renewal.

# eamon-gilmore - Sunday 14 October, 2012

Gilmore rules out seeking extension to Troika’s deficit deadline

Eamon Gilmore says the public wants an end to austerity – and not to have it dragged out for longer.

# eamon-gilmore - Thursday 11 October, 2012

Gilmore: ‘Individual departments’ to pursue public sector allowance cuts

The Tánaiste says the planned removal of public sector allowances will be done in “accordance with industrial relation procedures”.

# eamon-gilmore - Wednesday 10 October, 2012

New chairman of Finance Committee ‘determined to get stuck in from day one’

The position had been held by Alex White TD, who has taken up the junior ministerial position vacated by Róisín Shortall.

# eamon-gilmore - Tuesday 9 October, 2012

From Business ETC Jobswatch

Kerry Group to create 800 jobs over next three years

The number is set to rise to 900 in 2016 with an additional 400 construction jobs created to construct the new campus in Naas, Co Kildare.

# eamon-gilmore - Friday 5 October, 2012

The 5 at 5: Friday

5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

Canadian working abroad visa to be extended to two years

More than 10,000 visas will be made available by 2014 to Irish and Canadian participants for the newly-extended working holiday programme.

Updated: “Another context” to Shortall resignation explained by Gilmore

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is expected to go into more detail about the events of the past few weeks later this afternoon.

VIDEO, PHOTOS: Eamon Gilmore’s car egged by protesters in Dublin

One man was arrested when the car carrying Eamon Gilmore and Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald was forced to turn back after an Éirígí protest over cuts to child benefit.

# eamon-gilmore - Thursday 4 October, 2012

‘No ministerial involvement’ in selecting primary care sites – Gilmore

The Tánaiste says locating individual sites in towns put forward for primary centres was done by the HSE.

# eamon-gilmore - Wednesday 3 October, 2012

Hillary Clinton among over 50 foreign ministers to visit Dublin in December

The US Secretary of State is set to visit Ireland days after the Budget as Ireland hosts a major conference for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

# eamon-gilmore - Saturday 29 September, 2012

Eamon Gilmore tells UN: Palestinian state is “long overdue”

The Tánaiste also described events in Syria as “an affront to humanity”.

# eamon-gilmore - Friday 28 September, 2012

Over €4.1m in pensions paid to former ministers last year

Most current government ministers entitled to pensions from previous ministerial posts surrendered them last year but Finance Minister Michael Noonan didn’t. Bertie Ahern handed back some of his annual pension.

# eamon-gilmore - Thursday 27 September, 2012

Alex White to replace Shortall as junior health minister

The Dublin South TD will be nominated to fill the vacant junior ministerial position at the Department of Health next week.

James Reilly on Shortall’s departure: ‘Pressure’s only for tyres’

The Minister for Health showed little disappointment at Róisín Shortall’s resignation – who the Labour chairman said had the full support of party leadership.

# eamon-gilmore - Wednesday 26 September, 2012

In full: Róisín Shortall’s resignation statement

The Minister of State for Primary Care’s resignation statement in full.

Róisín Shortall resigns as Primary Care Minister

The Labour Party TD’s decision follows a much-publicised dispute with the Health Minister James Reilly. She has also resigned the Labour Party whip.

# eamon-gilmore - Monday 24 September, 2012

From Business ETC Embassy

Embassy expenditure down almost €1.6m last year

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore also said the decision to close the Vatican embassy will not be reversed in the immediate term.

# eamon-gilmore - Thursday 20 September, 2012

Gilmore challenges Boyd-Barrett to find alternative to property tax

The Tánaiste accuses left-wing TDs of failing to come up with their own proposals for how a property tax should be levied.

# eamon-gilmore - Wednesday 12 September, 2012

Column: We’re dedicated Labour members – but we’re not happy with the party

Labour is ignoring its core values and policies in coalition. A group of members are trying to change that, writes Neil Warner.