Results 761-780 of 4,915 for speaker:Jim O'Keeffe
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the future of FÃS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7194/09]
- Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (24 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she expects the new adoption agreement with Vietnam to be in place by 1 May 2009; and if not, if she will arrange to postpone the closure date on the existing arrangements until the new agreement is in place. [7546/09]
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (19 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if staff will be redeployed within the Health Service Executive to ease the burden on community welfare officers struggling to cope with the surge in applications from people seeking assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6680/09]
- Written Answers — Financial Institutions Support Scheme: Financial Institutions Support Scheme (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that businesses are getting satisfactory lines of credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6278/09]
- Written Answers — Public Sector Review: Public Sector Review (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance the reports which have been presented to him by the McCarthy Spending Review Group to date; the activities involved; the changes proposed; and when they will be presented to Dáil Ãireann for consideration. [6277/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of her Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in a reply to a parliamentary question reply of 27 January 2009. [6408/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Transport the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of his Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in to a reply to a Parliamentary Question of 27 January 2009. [6412/09]
- Written Answers — Prison Committals: Prison Committals (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people who were committed to prison in the past five years for non-payment of fines following court proceedings initiated by An Post for not having a television licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6380/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of his Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in to a reply to a Parliamentary Question of 27 January 2009. [6410/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 182: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of his Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in to a reply to a Parliamentary Question of 27 January 2009. [6405/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of his Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in to a reply to a Parliamentary Question of 27 January 2009. [6406/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of her Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in to a reply to a Parliamentary Question of 27 January 2009. [6411/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 203: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of his Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in to a reply to a parliamentary question reply of 27 January 2009. [6409/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of his Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in to a reply to a parliamentary question reply of 27 January 2009. [6404/09]
- Written Answers — Official Travel: Official Travel (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: Question 250: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the agencies, offices and bodies within the remit of his Department in respect of which details of foreign travel for 2008 were sought and not furnished in to a reply to a parliamentary question reply of 27 January 2009. [6407/09]
- Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: In our current situation of economic meltdown, this legislation is daft. I use the word "daft"ââ
- Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: I am glad to have support from Deputy O'Rourke in this regard and Deputy Mattie McGrath's previous remarks were along similar lines. I have been in this House for a long time and have always tried to be moderate in my approach to legislation and to affairs in the House. However, I feel like raising the flag of revolution about legislation of this nature. Are Members living in the real...
- Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: I am giving the Minister of State my view. I am long enough in this House to feel entitled to do so.
- Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: I am concerned at the attitude of a Government that proudly trots out yet another agency of this type. I read the review the Minister launched with great fanfare some weeks ago. It included no balance sheets or costings and no indication of staff numbers. I discovered in the explanatory memorandum to the Bill that we are talking about a figure in the order of â¬14 million or â¬15...
- Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Feb 2009)
Jim O'Keeffe: If additional inspectors are required, they should be appointed within the Department and instructed by the Minister on how the job should be done. This quango must be eliminated. It is entirely unnecessary and a total waste of taxpayers' money. I speak not from a party political perspective but as a Member of long standing who wishes genuinely to advise the Government in this matter. I...