Results 6,701-6,720 of 12,590 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Like me, Governments Deputies are meeting people who are worried they will lose their houses, lose their jobs and wonder how they will pay their mortgages. I am in the unusual position of trying to justify the Government and trying to explain to people-----
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: -----that the Government has not yet introduced necessary legislation. I try to explain that, even when the legislation is in place, structures must be put in place to implement it. We are perhaps 12 months from anything being put in place. Thankfully, for reasons that have nothing to do with the Government, very few people have lost their homes in this country but the Minister of State is...
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: -----and the Government is doing zero, zilch, nothing about it.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Government's proposals-----
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I do not recall coming in here and interrupting the Minister, with his last minute arrival to cover the absence of the Minister.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Keep chasing the stags. When I promised my electorate I would vote against the Government I did so, unlike you, Sir.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Government's proposals on the credit crisis is the longest running farce in the west end.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I have counted them and 19 times the Government publicly promised a partial credit guarantee scheme, which is a carbon copy of the English scheme, yet it has not produced it. It promised a micro-finance scheme and the princely sum of â¬10 million a year for the small and medium business enterprise sector. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation said that would enable loans of up...
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Stags are irrelevant. What is relevant are the people of this country who are consumed with anxiety and distress-----
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: -----and are going to TDs in their clinics every day because of the inaction of this Government.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: My message to the Government is-----
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: ----that it is time to stop the prevarication, the delay, the platitudes, the excuses and the alibis. The time for action has long since passed.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister has been sitting on it for the past 13 months looking out at stags.
- Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: They were the bondholders-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: He is talking about moving parts.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Members of the Taoiseach's Cabinet did.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Just like the Taoiseach's now.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy Martin is wasting his time.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I believe the Taoiseach wants to answer.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his liberality.