Results 7,001-7,020 of 12,596 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister agree that the new planning guidelines announced by his colleague, the Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, will have a devastating impact on retail businesses in town centres throughout the country and will not create any new jobs?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: He voted for it.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I am not that good.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: So the Taoiseach has a brief.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Has the Taoiseach made a choice?
- Export Trade (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will list the measures he has introduced to increase exports to BRIC countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36029/11]
- Export Trade (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: On the last day I raised this question the Minister told me "an exporters' unit was being operationalised within Enterprise Ireland". Has that taken place yet and, if so, how is the new unit performing? The programme for Government contains a number of specific commitments on this section, including creating a new home-to-export programme to share the expertise of exporting companies with...
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will announce measures to tackle the credit shortfall faced by businesses here, particularly the small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36212/11]
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister of State referred to the recapitalisation of the banks, but does he realise that it is not working, that there is a credit famine and that the financial institutions are once again trying to hoodwink the people with their figures, many of which are accounted for by restructuring and replacing existing funds? In the programme for Government, the Government made a significant...
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: What lack of demand?
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: How much will be guaranteed?
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Yes.
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: What is the total figure for the amount to be guaranteed?
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I heard what the Minister of State said about the last Government but the problem is that businesses starved of credit are worried about what this Government will do for them. Deputy John Perry is in government now and people are looking to the Government to do something to make financial institutions lend some of the capital stuffed into their coffers. The Minister of State said it is...
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: What the Government proposes to do now will be worse than useless.
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: This Government has promised it for a year.
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: People want to know what this Government will do. What will this Government do? Will the Minister of State focus on that?
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Government is taking its time.
- Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I welcome the establishment of the technology centre and the implementation group. In the programme for Government, it is stated that the Government will make Ireland the leader in the emerging IT market of cloud computing by promoting its greater use in the public sector. How can that be done when it is fairly widely known that a significant section of the public sector, including those...
- Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: It would be ironic if cloud computing were at the centre of our innovation policy while the Government could not buy cloud computing services. There seems to be a particular problem with CMOD, which is now part of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.