Results 1-20 of 84 for going forward speaker:Willie O'Dea

Order of Business (11 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach stated yesterday that he intends to bring forward proposals to modify the insolvency regime next month. Will these be legislative or non-legislative proposals? If the are going to be non-legislative, will he give a commitment to the effect that the House will be given an opportunity to discuss them before they are proceeded with?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (13 Jan 2016)

Willie O'Dea: ...of the status of a request for recognition of qualifications obtained abroad, thereby preventing the person from securing better paid employment; if he will ensure that these procedures are improved going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46614/15]

Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I wish to ask about two items of legislation. When can we expect the valuation (amendment) Bill? There is a commitment in the programme for Government to establish a strategic investment bank, which would require legislation. I notice there is nothing current or for further contemplation in the legislative programme about a strategic investment bank. Is it the Government's intention to go...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Deputy Brady is right. The Minister did raise some issues on Report Stage about the fact that this had come in on Report Stage rather Committee Stage. I put forward an amendment on Committee Stage that only provided for a code of practice. It did not provide for legislative protection. The committee took the view that this was not strong enough and I agreed. This is why the amendment...

Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...reply. I heard the Minister talk about the past but we are in the present now and he is a member of a Government which has been given an overwhelming majority by the people as a result of putting forward a policy, the centrepiece of which was to create jobs. The average rate of unemployment in the past 12 months during which the Government has been in office is 14.2%, as opposed to 13.7%...

Defence Forces Recruitment. (12 Oct 2006)

Willie O'Dea: I look forward to discovering the results of the research. I wrote to the organisations and asked for their suggestions on how to attract more women into the Defence Forces. The research will go deeper than this aspect. Women who have served in the Defence Forces will be interviewed about their experience of life there and women who have not served in the Defence Forces will be interviewed...

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (22 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister has been critical of the Millar report but is he aware of the concrete suggestions put forward by Dr. Millar to alleviate some of the problems that arise from the changed system? What does the Minister think of those proposals? They appear to be eminently sensible to me. Is the Minister concerned that the organisations representing single parents have advised large swathes of...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...accidents in the area of childbirth in hospitals last year? The total number of accidents and near accidents is 86,000 which cost the health service €81 million in claims last year. Is the Government going to take action on this research? Will it, at a minimum, organise risk assessments of all staffing levels, or is its concern for the safety of those using hospital services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: ...any of them have been discontinued. I agree with the Chairman in that all the anecdotal evidence coming to me suggests that the LES and the Jobs Clubs have been adversely affected, so I look forward to the Department's list of referrals in that regard. Regarding the data the witnesses have provided, I will tell them straight out that I am amazed at the cost of this: €1.2...

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (11 Feb 2004)

Willie O'Dea: On the other hand, that person may have behaved notoriously badly in another country and the notification may have been sent forward to the Irish authorities. That has happened. It is a matter of discretion for the immigration officer. The immigration provision in the United Kingdom states that an immigration officer must refuse leave to land to a person on confirmation from a medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Willie O'Dea: ..., is we are starting the process of negotiating a budget. We have all been given the figures and they are fairly tight, unfortunately, and that position will not be improved in the event of Brexit going wrong. Various justifications have been advanced over the years for this policy of treating people under the age of 26 differently to normal adults but there has been no cost-benefit...

Other Questions: Fuel Poverty (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: We have all had representations from organisations representing the elderly. They have conducted surveys and have come across people who do not light a fire until the afternoon and who go to bed early in the winter to save fuel. Other people resort to taking public transport or taking shelter in public libraries and other public buildings because they simply cannot afford to heat their...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Willie O'Dea: As everything has been said, I will just make a few brief points. I am looking forward to the publication of the Government's impact assessment of tax and social welfare changes. What period this will cover, I do not know or care, provided it gives a comprehensive account of what we want measured and gives an indication of the priorities for changes in the future. There is no doubt that...

Defence Forces Reserve. (22 Oct 2008)

Willie O'Dea: ...to a rigorous attitude towards the removal of non-active members from the rolls, which was not present previously. Deputy Deenihan's budgetary figure of €10 million is approximately correct. Going from memory, a reason for the declines in 2007 and 2008 was that the numbers coming forward did not necessitate that level of funding. Those figures comprised all of the expenditure incurred....

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (4 Jul 2006)

Willie O'Dea: Deputy Gormley may refer to terms such as "authorised", "endorsed", "supported", "approved" and "otherwise sanctioned", but under this legislation there can be no deployment whatever of Irish troops on peacekeeping missions unless there is a specific resolution of the United Nations which will give rise to that. The Deputy mentioned Iraq. The argument put forward by the US Government, as I...

Seanad: Ombudsman (Defence Forces) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (13 Oct 2004)

Willie O'Dea: I take on board what has been said by Senators about the potential reluctance of people to come forward and make a complaint. We have engaged in a number of initiatives to deal with that into which I will go if Senators wish. In regard to this amendment, it is an essential principle of the legislation that, subject to the provisions of the Bill, the Defence Forces ombudsman may investigate an...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...no job and they wish to get one. Moreover, many of them are taking with them skills expensively acquired at the expense of the Irish taxpayer, that is, those very skills needed to get the country going again. If one measures this in another way, the Government published a stability programme update in April 2011, which is fair enough. It projected that the numbers at work would grow by...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: ...tabled an amendment that pretty much seeks the same thing, except that it looks for the report to be presented within three months. That would allow us to have meaningful discussions on the way forward for lone parents. Whatever it may be - we received various recommendations on the day the committee met Drs. Crosse and Millar - it is not the way we are proceeding. The Bill allows for...

Action Plan for Jobs 2012: Statements (16 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Government has announced a new set of retail guidelines, apparently at the behest of the troika. Does the troika understand what is going on here? Has it considered what the net result of this will be? Major operators will come here to buy greenfield sites at rock bottom prices. They will be able to provide plenty of parking facilities, etc., at a time when we are trying to reverse a...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (23 Jun 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...the fuel situation as it applies to the Irish Infantry Battalion in Goz Beida has essentially been resolved. Sufficient stocks are now in place in Camp Ciara which will provide for the Unit's needs going forward. In addition, extra fuel is stored in the new UN fuel farm adjacent to the Irish camp. The UN also have a facility to fly in quantities of fuel at any stage. The Defence Forces...