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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (18 Sep 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid retrospectively in 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 for claims of jobseeker's allowance and one parent family payment which were originally rejected but were then subject to a successful appeal. [39205/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (18 Sep 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form the total number of jobseeker's allowance and one-parent family payment applications, rejections, appeals and subsequent rejection or acceptance of the appeal in 2009 ,2010, 2011 and 2012 to date. [39206/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve Strength (18 Sep 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Defence if it is proposed to shut down the Reserve Defence Force entirely until some unspecified time in 2013. [38354/12]

Written Answers — Energy Resources: Energy Resources (19 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the independent assessment of the efficiency of the electricity and gas sectors here will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35814/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (19 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 380: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for community employment schemes; when her Department's reports will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36416/12]

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Nobody believes that nonsense.

Written Answers — Straitéis 20 Bliain: Straitéis 20 Bliain (18 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 27: To ask the Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cé na cruinnithe atá i gceist a bheith aige leis an Roinn Oideachais mar gheall ar an nGaeilge a mhúineadh ag an gcéad leibhéal agus an dara leibhéal; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [35392/12]

Written Answers — Industrial Production: Industrial Production (17 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the industrial production in the first quarter of 2012; the same figure for this time in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27533/12]

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (17 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had a request for a meeting with the Postmasters Union; if so, if he intends to meet them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34654/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (17 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reasons Enterprise Ireland invested in the Pilot Training College in view of what has now transpired. [34358/12]

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (17 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 451: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has had a request for a meeting with the Postmasters Union; if so, if he intends to meet them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34653/12]

County Enterprise Boards (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: My question is somewhat different, in that it is more direct. I have spoken to the staff of a number of CEBs and to businesses that have engaged with CEBs previously and intend on doing so again. To be frank, no one has a clue as to what is happening. The Minister stated that he established an implementation group that would devise an implementation plan. I am trying to ascertain - in a...

County Enterprise Boards (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: My experience of city and county managers is somewhat mixed. I have a brief question. I do not want to pre-empt the work of the implementation group but I welcome the information communicated by the Minister that one of the matters it would deal with is the processing of the microenterprise loans at local level through the structure outlined by the Minister. Will the Minister give the...

County Enterprise Boards (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: It will provide a link.

Information Technology (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Do I take it the last meeting of the group was in March and it submitted its report in June?

Information Technology (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: So the Government must decide on how to take the matter forward. Is this where we are?

Information Technology (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: We are all familiar with the Goodbody report and the potential of cloud computing for employment creation. Will the Minister of State ensure the usefulness of cloud computing as a mechanism to reduce costs in the public sector is fully taken into account? The impact of cloud computing on e-learning in schools is very uneven and depends on the extent to which broadband has reached an area....

Jobs Initiative (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will prepare and publish an evaluation of the jobs initiative for its effect on jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34010/12]

Jobs Initiative (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I apologise for my late arrival in the Chamber. I note the Minister's response but the figures are pretty damning. The recent official statistics which, if anything, understate the case, point to a level of unemployment which is the highest in 20 years. They also indicate that half those people who are now unemployed have been unemployed for a year or more and one third are unemployed for...

Jobs Initiative (12 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Everything seems to be turning the corner and going ahead, but the problem is growing. Allied to that, as has been mentioned, approximately 200 people per day are leaving the country. If one takes the statistics for the number of people who were employed in this economy from the time the Minister's party left office in 1997 to when it returned to office last year, a total of 325,000 more...