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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The current Government is going into its third year and it is still prating about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We will table a few amendments and we will see if Deputy Butler votes for them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: They were voting Fine Gael.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Government has been in office for three years. How many such houses have been built in the past three years? Another broken promise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Are we here to talk about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Deputy should not bring politics into this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I outlined what people have----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Can Mr. O'Connor put a figure on how much the Government will have to commit by way of matching funding for the European youth guarantee scheme? Has that been calculated as yet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I have been trying to make the point to the Minister at Question Time and in various debates that the changes are a disincentive to lone parents to go out to work. This has been confirmed. Do the delegates agree with this point? I do not understand why, if they can engage in equality proofing in Tanzania and Uganda, we cannot do so here. It goes a long way to explaining why we are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I thank both organisations for their compelling and succinct presentations. I have a few questions for Mr. McCafferty regarding social welfare. It is chilling to reflect on the fact that the expenditure the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has had to incur to make up for the shortfall in State support increased by over 56% between 2008 and 2011. That is a shocking figure, particularly at a...
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Yesterday, Deputy Martin raised the timing of legislation for an open competition for the appointment of a Secretary General and Clerk of the Dáil and the overhaul of the top level appointments commission, TLAC, system. Deputy Martin wrote a comprehensive letter to the Taoiseach on 12 July-----
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: -----about the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013. This Bill can be amended to ensure there is a competition on merit-----
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: -----to appoint an officer of this House. Does the Taoiseach intend to take this opportunity to amend that legislation, to bring the appointment of officers of this House into the 21st century?
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Can I-----
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Just to clarify, a Cheann Comhairle, I am not trying to reflect on you in any way.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I regret that and I am not directing my remarks at you in any shape or form. I am simply asking the Taoiseach if he will take the opportunity to amend the legislation, so-----
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: There is a commitment, as I understand it.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: There is legislation which can be used to amend the system. I am simply asking the Taoiseach-----
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I understand that.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2013)
Willie O'Dea: There is legislation which enables this issue to be dealt with.