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Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: It relates to promised legislation. It is on the same topic.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: I appreciate the Tánaiste's comment that it is not the practice to publish the advice of the Attorney General. However, will he publish the advice that was given to the Labour Party before this year's general election? That could be done.

Order of Business (15 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: The Tánaiste was making announcements all over the country.

Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: First.

Written Answers — Fishing Industry Development: Fishing Industry Development (14 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has undertaken to review and reform the management of herring fisheries in Ireland to date. [39828/11]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (13 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: Question 238: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be reached on an application claim for redundancy in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [39667/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive is using a taxi service in Limerick which is charging more than double the normal fare to transfer patients from St John's Hospital to the Mid Western Regional Hospital; if he will also outline the exact charges being made to this company by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39252/11]

Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: Is Deputy Broughan allowed to speak?

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: And four Government Deputies.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: I suppose they will believe you.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: I wish to share time with my colleague, Deputy Seamus Kirk.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: I am sorry that the young people in the Visitors' Gallery, whom the Minister for Education and Skills addressed a few minutes ago, have now left. I notice, however, that another group of young people are in the Visitors' Gallery. I would say this them: we have just had a talk from the Minister for Education and Skills who is now leaving the Chamber. He boasted about all he was going to do...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: He brazenly renegued on that promise within weeks of making it. I hope all his fine promises about what he is going to do for education will come to pass. That is the context in which he must be judged.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: The point about it is that he was found deliberately telling lies to the people. When the Government introduced its jobs initiative last spring, it had only just taken office. At the time, I took a constructive approach and I think it will be judged as such. The Government had only just been elected and I wished them a fair wind. I had reservations on how they were going about job...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: That is how detached from reality the Taoiseach has become. The increase in VAT is just one job creation wheeze, and another is the savage cut in capital expenditure as a proportion of total expenditure cut. I will again refer to a person in the media who has no axe to grind, Mr. Dan O'Brien, the respected economic commentator in The Irish Times. On 5 November, referring to the...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: No, it was the current Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: Another equally famous politician said that cuts in capital spending undermine the future capacity of this economy.

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: Guess who it was? He is sitting directly across from me. It is the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton. Could it have been him only a few short months ago? Another fantastic job creation wheeze is the notion of pushing the cost of redundancy on to employers. Companies are downsizing and I know a number of small and medium enterprises which are losing money and reducing costs to survive. The...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: What the Government does not seem to realise, unfortunately, is that the rebate on redundancy payments comes from the social insurance fund, and who pays into the social insurance fund by and large but employers. Employers who pay into the social insurance fund are now expected to pay on the double to the extent of 85% when someone becomes redundant. I cannot calculate the exact sum but it...

Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)

Willie O'Dea: -----because it is anti-competitive.