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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (9 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider the method by which casual workers are means assessed for receipt of jobseeker's payments, that is, where a person can lose social welfare entitlement for a full day when working only for one or two hours of that day, thus acting as a deterrent to those wishing to return to work; if she will consider permitting a jobseeker...

Order of Business (8 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: When is it proposed to introduce an amendment to the Medical Practitioners Act? In that context, will the Minister comment on the status of the contract the HSE has offered to doctors to provide free health care for children under six years of age? I note that the Minister of State at the Department of Health said this morning that it was an opening offer. Is that the position?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (8 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 44. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons aged 16 to 25 who are not currently engaged in employment, education or training; the percentage of the population between 16 and 25 this represents; if he will provide in tabular form the primary status education, unemployed, training, employed, none of the above of those under 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16704/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (8 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the progress of the Gateway initiative scheme; her views on the progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16479/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Court Recommendations (8 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review her response to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 15 November 2011 in view of the fact that the Labour Court did in fact consider submissions made to it by FÁS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16705/14]

Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to introduce a petitions system in this Parliament along the lines of what happens in the European Parliament. What is the position in that regard? There is a proposal in the programme for Government to have at least a fortnight's delay between different Stages of legislation. What is the latest status of that given it will require a...

Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This was promised three years ago.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: What about the petitions?

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: -----telling us there was nothing to see and we should move on? Why are there now no less than four inquiries into alleged maladministration, all centring on how the Minister handled these vital issues? Perhaps the clue can be found in an article in last Saturday's Irish Independent by Fionnan Sheehan in which he stated that not a member of the Opposition, a journalist or other outside...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The problem is that the Minister, Deputy Shatter, does not deal with people on an equal basis. He sees everybody at a distance from the towering heights of his own regard.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister's name has become a watch word for hubris, arrogance, intellectual superiority and the inability to admit even the slightest mistake.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The history books tell us that Joan of Arc was influenced by voices. The only voice to which the Minister, Deputy Shatter, ever listens is his own.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: He does not do humility either. He cannot even fake that. Having refused for six months to apologise for the slurs on the characters of two honourable men, which he deliberately cast across the floor of this House and repeated elsewhere, an apology was dragged out of him by his colleagues in Government of both parties, who made it clear to him that he apologise or else. Reluctantly, the...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I sat here while the Minister was delivering those words. He delivered them with all the enthusiasm of Munster supporters cheering on Leinster in a Heineken Cup final. I know that my colleagues on this side of the House intend to appeal to the almost absent Labour Party - the only member of that party here is a former member of Democratic Left - to do the decent thing.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I do not wish to dissuade them but I do not intend to hold my breath either.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I cannot help feeling like the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who, when found begging alms from a statue said that he was practising disappointment.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I recall the febrile atmosphere of December 1993 and the ferocious head hunters arriving in the Taoiseach's office saying they would be satisfied with nothing less than a head. They had no intention of leaving the building without a head and did not particularly care whose head it was.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: It is sad to see the ferocious head hunters of 1993 have been reduced to the chinless wonders of 2014.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The Labour Party tells us it must be satisfied in relation to the timelines. When stripped down, this means that it does not matter what the Minister, Deputy Shatter, did or did not do once he did so or did not do so within the timelines mentioned. For example, the Minister has told us that it took four months from the time the Attorney General received the information for it to be reported...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: What a pathetic position for a once proud party.