Results 7,141-7,160 of 12,596 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: When will the consumer and competition Bill be published?
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: It is perhaps not surprising that I support this Bill-----
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I introduced an identical Bill on 19 July.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I did not claim that the Bill I introduced was a panacea which would cure every problem, no more than the Bill before us today can do so. I introduced it because I wanted to save more than 200,000 workers on the bottom of the pay scale from months of uncertainty. The Government decided that these workers should be left to suffer until such time as its own legislation was ready. The...
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: These people are being left at the mercy of contract law and private law, with no option but to seek to vindicate their rights through the agency of barristers at the Circuit Court. The response of Government backbenchers during the debate on the Bill I introduced last July is interesting when one compares and contrasts what was said on each side. Deputy Olivia Mitchell, who represents a...
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: She thinks there should be no protections whatever for the lower paid, except those Fine Gael can afford to vindicate itself.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Back to the days of the Industrial Revolution. Deputy Griffin referred to the "great courage, leadership and determination" of the Minister in hammering the lower paid.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The fact is-----
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Labour Party accepts-----
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I can read what the Deputy said.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Labour Party accepts the Duffy-Walsh report.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Labour Party accepts the Duffy-Walsh report.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Deputy referred to the "great courage, leadership and determination" of the Minister in what he was attempting to do. That is what he referred to.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: A Cheann Comhairle, may I make my speech?
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Deputy said it and he should stand over it now.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I quoted the Deputy referring to the great courage, leadership and determination of the Minister.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I did not refer to the Deputy as using it at all.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Yes.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: He is taking up my time.
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy English referred to the structures, rules, regulations and rates which were a deterrent and were costing business. Apparently â¬288 per week is a deterrent and is costing jobs.