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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Education Committees (29 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the persons who hold the responsibility for the decision regarding the location of the headquarters for the proposed Mid West Regional Vocational Education Committee; if the headquarters will be located in Limerick city centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4558/13]
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Yes - a change for the worse.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: A hundred people are emigrating each day.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I suppose the Taoiseach believes that.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: When?
- Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Does the Taoiseach really believe that?
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Yesterday a Redemptorist priest, Fr. Michael Cusack, had some things to say about the Government's policy on rural policing. He "urged fresh thinking on policing resources so that people in rural communities do not sleep in their beds in fear, and evil does not triumph over virtue." He went on to describe how, after a garda had been removed from his local parish in County Galway, a...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I did not ask that question.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I asked the Minister a simple direct question and she answered everything but the question I asked. She quoted various data. The number of burglaries is up by 10%, but I suppose if one tortures data sufficiently, one can get them to confess to anything. That is the bottom line. I am amazed to hear the development of the road network is now responsible for much rural crime. I am putting a...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: "Yes" or "No".
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: He was talking about changing Government policy.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Is it by closing Garda stations?
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Are you proceeding with closures? I asked you a specific question.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Yes or no?
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: That is not what people are telling us.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Answer my question. Yes or no?
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister has taken four minutes to fail to answer the question. Are Garda stations being closed? Yes or no?
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I suppose we will have to apologise for it in 17 years time.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: You removed Jerry McCabe.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We were not going to cut child benefit.