Results 7,001-7,020 of 12,590 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Export Trade (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: On the last day I raised this question the Minister told me "an exporters' unit was being operationalised within Enterprise Ireland". Has that taken place yet and, if so, how is the new unit performing? The programme for Government contains a number of specific commitments on this section, including creating a new home-to-export programme to share the expertise of exporting companies with...
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will announce measures to tackle the credit shortfall faced by businesses here, particularly the small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36212/11]
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister of State referred to the recapitalisation of the banks, but does he realise that it is not working, that there is a credit famine and that the financial institutions are once again trying to hoodwink the people with their figures, many of which are accounted for by restructuring and replacing existing funds? In the programme for Government, the Government made a significant...
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: What lack of demand?
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: How much will be guaranteed?
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Yes.
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: What is the total figure for the amount to be guaranteed?
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I heard what the Minister of State said about the last Government but the problem is that businesses starved of credit are worried about what this Government will do for them. Deputy John Perry is in government now and people are looking to the Government to do something to make financial institutions lend some of the capital stuffed into their coffers. The Minister of State said it is...
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: What the Government proposes to do now will be worse than useless.
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: This Government has promised it for a year.
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: People want to know what this Government will do. What will this Government do? Will the Minister of State focus on that?
- SME Sector (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Government is taking its time.
- Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I welcome the establishment of the technology centre and the implementation group. In the programme for Government, it is stated that the Government will make Ireland the leader in the emerging IT market of cloud computing by promoting its greater use in the public sector. How can that be done when it is fairly widely known that a significant section of the public sector, including those...
- Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: It would be ironic if cloud computing were at the centre of our innovation policy while the Government could not buy cloud computing services. There seems to be a particular problem with CMOD, which is now part of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: There seems to be a particular problem among certain people in the centre for management and organisational development, which used to be part of the Department of Finance but is now in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I would be happy to share them.
- Credit Guarantee Scheme (22 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: When a decision needs to be taken as to whether a loan will be guaranteed, what sort of person will take the decision? Will it be taken by a bureaucrat in the Department or by somebody in the private sector?
- Written Answers — Public Service Appointments: Public Service Appointments (17 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the number of outstanding applications for public service appointment replacements when the post is deemed necessary; the number that have been deemed necessary to fill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35142/11]
- Written Answers — School Refurbishment: School Refurbishment (16 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the minor works grant payments will issue to schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34785/11]
- Written Answers — Capital Spending: Capital Spending (16 Nov 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net impact on jobs of changes agreed for capital spending in his Department and the nature of all studies which he has undertaken on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35051/11]