Results 5,581-5,600 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- 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.
- Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: There seems to be a particular problem among certain people in the centre for management and organisational development, which used to be part of the Department of Finance but is now in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I would be happy to share them.
- Credit Guarantee Scheme (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: When a decision needs to be taken as to whether a loan will be guaranteed, what sort of person will take the decision? Will it be taken by a bureaucrat in the Department or by somebody in the private sector?
- Proposed Legislation (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: When can Members expect to see the companies Bill?
- Proposed Legislation (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: That is part 1.
- 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?
- Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 555: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm when she expects adoptions from Vietnam to resume; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35504/11]
- Written Answers — Live Register: Live Register (23 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons unemployed for more that one year according to the latest live register figures; the number of persons over 25 years unemployed for more that one year; the change since last year in each of these figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36211/11]