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- County Enterprise Boards (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: My question is somewhat different, in that it is more direct. I have spoken to the staff of a number of CEBs and to businesses that have engaged with CEBs previously and intend on doing so again. To be frank, no one has a clue as to what is happening. The Minister stated that he established an implementation group that would devise an implementation plan. I am trying to ascertain - in a...
- County Enterprise Boards (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: My experience of city and county managers is somewhat mixed. I have a brief question. I do not want to pre-empt the work of the implementation group but I welcome the information communicated by the Minister that one of the matters it would deal with is the processing of the microenterprise loans at local level through the structure outlined by the Minister. Will the Minister give the...
- County Enterprise Boards (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: It will provide a link.
- Information Technology (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Do I take it the last meeting of the group was in March and it submitted its report in June?
- Information Technology (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: So the Government must decide on how to take the matter forward. Is this where we are?
- Information Technology (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: We are all familiar with the Goodbody report and the potential of cloud computing for employment creation. Will the Minister of State ensure the usefulness of cloud computing as a mechanism to reduce costs in the public sector is fully taken into account? The impact of cloud computing on e-learning in schools is very uneven and depends on the extent to which broadband has reached an area....
- Jobs Initiative (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will prepare and publish an evaluation of the jobs initiative for its effect on jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34010/12]
- Jobs Initiative (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I apologise for my late arrival in the Chamber. I note the Minister's response but the figures are pretty damning. The recent official statistics which, if anything, understate the case, point to a level of unemployment which is the highest in 20 years. They also indicate that half those people who are now unemployed have been unemployed for a year or more and one third are unemployed for...
- Jobs Initiative (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Everything seems to be turning the corner and going ahead, but the problem is growing. Allied to that, as has been mentioned, approximately 200 people per day are leaving the country. If one takes the statistics for the number of people who were employed in this economy from the time the Minister's party left office in 1997 to when it returned to office last year, a total of 325,000 more...
- Jobs Initiative (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Government is making a very poor job of it.
- Sick Pay Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation his liaisons with the Department of Social Protection on possible changes to the system of sick pay and employers PRSI; if he considers that any such changes would impact on competitiveness and employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34246/12]
- Sick Pay Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I take it from the Minister's reply that his officials attended a presentation on an information campaign organised by the Minister for Social Protection. However, I am inundated with correspondence from small employers who are hanging on by their fingertips and who are extremely worried about proposals emanating from the Department of Social Protection, whose Minister is saying there is a...
- Sick Pay Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I agree with the Minister's last point but the answer is surely not to solve the problem by loading more costs on the backs of employers, which will inevitably create more unemployment and put more pressure on the social insurance fund. The Minister said in reply to question No. 2 that one of the centrepieces of the Government's employment strategy is the halving, in certain instances, of...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: We will take a lesson on health history now.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach is wondering all the time.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Look in the mirror.
- Written Answers — Pilot Training Courses: Pilot Training Courses (10 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Question 553: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that up to 80 students from Ireland, some of whom are from Limerick, have potentially lost more than â¬80,000 in fees following the termination of a training contract involving a Florida based college and the Waterford based Pilot Training Centre of Ireland; if he will investigate...
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: When is it proposed to publish the legislation to establish SOLAS? Second, there is a Bill to be published by the Taoiseach's Department entitled "Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of the Seanad) Bill". Has the Government signed off on that Bill yet? Third, when is it proposed to introduce the legislation on Cabinet confidentiality which is promised in the programme for Government?
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I did not receive any answers.