Results 7,081-7,100 of 12,590 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Ministerial Travel (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for his reply and I am sure he works very hard. The cost of these trade missions should be kept to a minimum but I must question why no official from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade accompanied the Minister. As he said in a response to an earlier question, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is central to trade promotion. Is this a form of branding...
- Ministerial Travel (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I have never been in favour of big entourages. I asked the Minister how many officials have been seconded to his Department from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to deal with trade. The Government made a specific commitment that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade would be centrally involved in the promotion of foreign trade. How is this reflected in the deployment of...
- Job Creation (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I deduce from the Minister of State's response that the most extraordinary situation now exists and that something which is central to the Government's job creation programme will only involve the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in a peripheral way. He will be a member of the Cabinet sub-committee which will discuss these issues in a general way and sign off on them, but the...
- Job Creation (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I am glad the Minister of State has confirmed that the jobs target has disappeared. When this programme was first mooted in November 2009, the proposed expenditure was â¬18.2 billion. It subsequently dropped to â¬7 billion and it is now at â¬2 billion or 10% of what it originally was. The funding for this appears to come from the sale of strategic State assets. The troika has not yet...
- Job Creation (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister of State should guess.
- Proposed Legislation (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: The court case in question took place more than a year ago, since which we have been in something of a vacuum. There are thousands of jobs at stake, including 1,600 in Xtra-vision alone, not to mention all the other jobs in related areas. Moreover, looking to the future, it is the centrepiece of the Government's economic policy to create jobs in the digital games area and so on. It is ten...
- Proposed Legislation (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I understand the Minister of State has had a meeting with the organisation representing ISPs. Is he prepared to meet representatives of the Irish Recorded Music Association, IRMA?
- Employment Levels (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons employed in the economy at the end of quarter four in 2010; the number employed at the end of quarter one in 2011; the number employed at the end of quarter two 2011; the estimated number of persons that have emigrated in each of these quarters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28951/11]
- Employment Levels (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: It would appear from the figures given by the Minister, in which he takes a great deal of satisfaction, that fewer people are in employment now than when the Government introduced its jobs initiative. When the initiative was introduced the rate of unemployment stood at 14.2% while now it stands at 14.4%. What percentage of those on the live register have been unemployed for more than a year?...
- Employment Levels (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister make an educated guess as to the figures?
- Employment Levels (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister accept his jobs initiative has failed? In net terms, no new jobs have been created while the unemployment rate has gone up. Will the Minister agree it is not too far off the mark to say one in two on the live register has been unemployed for more than 12 months? Am I far off the mark saying youth unemployment now stands at over 30%? Will the Minister agree every...
- Employment Levels (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: They are not jobs, however.
- Industrial Development (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce the home to export programme, local trade and investment teams to develop better trading relationships with emerging economies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28952/11]
- Industrial Development (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I am very interested in what is happening in Enterprise Ireland. The reason I raised the question is that the programme for Government contains a number of specific commitments to improve our export performance with particular reference to the BRIC countries, such as the establishment of an export trade council, a home to export programme, a...
- Industrial Development (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for acknowledging the success we enjoyed as a country during the administration of the previous much maligned Government with regard to building up trade with the BRIC countries. The latest figures available to me for July - the Minister of State may have more recent figures - show exports were worth just over â¬7 billion which is a decrease of 10% compared with...
- Industrial Development (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: There was a dramatic drop in July.
- Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: When will the legislation for a temporary credit guarantee scheme be introduced?
- Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: It is urgent yet the Government has already had eight months to deal with the issue and still has done nothing.
- Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: There is no noise in Mullingar Barracks now.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2011)
Willie O'Dea: A nice one.