Results 8,101-8,120 of 8,873 for speaker:Batt O'Keeffe
- Written Answers — Departmental Procurement: Departmental Procurement (23 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: My officials would be happy to examine any proposals a business may wish to submit to the Department for consideration but it should be borne in mind that the procurement of goods and services by the Department must comply with the appropriate public procurement procedures.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Due to industrial action on the part of some staff in the Department of Education and Science, I am not in a position to give full details of the project for the school referred to by the Deputy. The progression of all large scale building projects, including the project for the school in question, from initial design stage through to construction will be considered in the context of the...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Due to industrial action on the part of some staff in the Department of Education and Science, I am not in a position to give the full details sought by the Deputy. The progression of all large scale building projects, including the project for the school in question, from initial design stage through to construction will be considered in the context of the school building and modernisation...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (23 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department provides funds for over thirty projects in Local Drugs Task Force areas, including the project specifically referred to by the Deputy. In the context of the budget for 2010 and the difficult fiscal climate, it was decided that funding for these projects was to be reduced from â¬3,643,000 in 2009 to â¬2,461,000 in 2010 and to cease from 2011. While the overall reduction in...
- Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (25 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Neither my Department nor the 8 Offices of my Department are currently leasing any properties to commercial businesses and, therefore, the provision of the information requested by the Deputy does not arise.
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The Department does not provide direct funding to business or start-ups, rather it provides funding to the enterprise agencies. Assistance for small businesses and services in Ireland is delivered by a number of bodies, including the County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) and Enterprise Ireland (EI). If the company in question is seeking to expand and requires the assistance of state...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 79 and 80 together. Work on the general scheme of the legislation to merge the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency is at an advanced stage. My Department is liaising closely with both bodies in relation to the preparation of the legislation. I expect to bring the general scheme of the Bill before Government for its approval in the coming...
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (25 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The Government website for invitations to tender for Public Sector contracts is www.etenders.gov.ie. This is the official website for Public Service contracts and this site can be accessed to view all invitations to tender as well as contracts under consideration and contracts awarded. In line with Department of Finance guidelines all Public Service contracts over â¬50,000 are advertised...
- Written Answers — Companies Registration Office: Companies Registration Office (25 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The Companies Registration Office processed over 380,000 statutorily required documents in 2009 of which 13,320 were new company registrations. The customer service target deadlines of five, ten and fifteen working days for the three company incorporation schemes operated by the Office were consistently met and regularly exceeded during 2009. I can assure the Deputy that every effort is being...
- Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (25 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: My Department and the 8 Offices of my Department do not currently rent or lease any properties from property landlords. All the properties occupied by the Department and its Offices are provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW) without any cost to the Department or the Offices concerned. In many of those cases, the properties are rented or leased by the OPW from property landlords and...
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The Government's actions today are the culmination of painstaking analysis and detailed consideration of the measures necessary to restore our banks to fit-for-purpose institutions that can support economic development and the growth of enterprise. Our actions today are necessary for the longer term economic stability of our nation which has been recklessly undermined by irresponsible...
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: I was supposed to have ten minutes in my slot.
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Work is ongoing on a targeted loan guarantee scheme and we have secured a commitment by central government to pay its debts to businesses in 15 rather than 30 days.
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: We have secured the introduction of a pay-related social insurance exemption for employers creating new jobs this year. Fine Gael wants a national recovery bank which would have no way of generating funds because the good loans it is supposed to buy from the banks are already being used as collateral for funding from the European Central Bank and international markets.
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: No country in the world has established a bank such as that proposed by Fine Gael because it would be folly, even for Deputy Enda Kenny, to set up a bank that cannot fund itself.
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: The question Deputies opposite must answer is how they propose to get credit flowing to businesses and householders. We all know that banks have curtailed lending, mainly because banks are finding it hard to access funds.
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Our banks should be extremely grateful for the resolve of the Irish people to intervene to save the economy and ensure a return to growth.
- Banking System: Motion (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Their forbearance and the courageous actions of this Government is putting this country on the road to recovery. When this period of Irish history comes to be written, it will be recorded in favour of those courageous enough to do the right thing in the national interest.
- Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: When Enterprise Ireland was established in 1998 it became a strategic objective to bring all Dublin based staff together in one location. This was achieved with the move to East Point Business Park in September 2008. Until this time, Enterprise Ireland occupied four office locations in Dublin, primarily as a result of the amalgamation of various state agencies into a single organisation over...
- Written Answers — Public Service Contracts: Public Service Contracts (30 Mar 2010)
Batt O'Keeffe: Any changes to the qualification criteria in respect of prospective tenderers in relation to the Government E tenders website would be a matter for the Minister for Finance.