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Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It is not normal to sit until 5 a.m.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 136. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes which failed to submit proposals to meet the required funding standard by 30 June deadline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34131/13]

Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I seek further clarification on a matter raised by one of the Taoiseach's backbenchers, namely, the consumer and competition Bill. It is a very important Bill, as the Taoiseach has often acknowledged, dealing as it does, among other issues, with media monopolies. The Taoiseach has indicated on several occasions that it would be dealt with in this session. With only five sitting days...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: That has nothing to do with the Waterford case.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Government is dragging it out.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: How many of them will have gone under by then?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 241. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 23 May 2013, the reason the Health Service Executive has not contacted me to outline the specific locations of staff recruited under the national integrated care diabetes programme in the mid-west region; if the HSE will do so as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33675/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It does not make any difference.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Nothing is going to be done.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister's response, which is obviously a script from the Department of Social Protection, is not unfamiliar because we have heard it here several times previously. I could quote it by heart. It will give no comfort whatsoever to people who will be affected by this. Everybody knows, including the Minister and her colleagues, that a number of defined benefit pension schemes will close...

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: They are unlucky not to be retired already. The Minister knows what I meant. He should address the subject

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Government has been promising to address it for two and a half years. When is it going to do something?

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Stick to the subject and answer the question. The Minister should not be here at all on this.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister suffered from amnesia about a certain incident when he insulted the Garda and would not take a breath test.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I do not like it when I do not get an answer to a specific question.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I am concerned for people in Limerick and down the country on whose behalf I am asking these questions. Address their concerns.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It does not matter, as I am not going to gain much by staying in the Chamber.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The problems facing the pension system in this country are manyfold. Unfortunately I will only have time in the two minutes available to me to focus on one of these problems. I suspect the reason the Minister for Social Protection is not here is that less than one month ago we told her in unmistakable terms that the 30 June deadline for the trustees of defined benefit pension schemes to...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I read in the programme for Government, with some disbelief, a commitment to expand eligibility for the back to education allowance. In view of the fact that eligibility for this allowance has been restricted twice - the opposite of expanded - do I take it this commitment has been abandoned? I also notice there is a specific commitment to exempt from VAT service companies that export more...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: These are specific commitments in the programme for Government. Three budgets later, is this a case of another one biting the dust?