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Written Answers — Imports and Exports: Imports and Exports (2 Feb 2010)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 205 and 206 together. Merchandise Trade statistics, by category, are available up to October 2009 and Services Trade statistics, by category, are only available up to end-2008, from the Central Statistics Office. The following data therefore sets out trends for the most significant export and import categories for the five full years of 2004 – 2008 and, in...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 37 and 38 together. The current staff complement of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) is 49.5. These staff include gardaí and officials with accounting, administrative, IT and legal expertise. In addition, the Garda Commissioner has made available in recent months a further five gardaí to support the related Garda Bureau of Fraud...

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: The party wants to cut public sector pay, public service numbers and public programmes, reduce the number of quangos and abolish the IDA and Enterprise Ireland. We must have some coherent policies and I am trying to be helpful. It is important that the Deputies on the opposite benches do not downplay the opportunities and advantages-----

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: -----of the mid-west. It has a wonderful university and a great institute of technology.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: There are great advances in infrastructural development and there is accessibility. Those are key components in attracting inward investment.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: The confusion and noise made by the Deputies will not help me when I am abroad trying to promote Ireland and the mid-west as an area for locational investment.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: We must work together to ensure a future for the mid-west and the people we are talking about, those who have lost their jobs in Dell and the ancillary or embryonic spin-offs from Dell. The globalisation fund will be a key component in that.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: The Deputies should look at the Tánaiste's speech and acknowledge that there is movement on some of the recommendations of the task force.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: Window shopping.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: I remind Deputies opposite that we have experience of regeneration in Cork. It is more appropriate to rehouse people before one demolishes their houses. That is the first step in the regeneration process. Housing people, demolition and rebuilding are part and parcel of the regeneration process.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: He has been doing it since he entered the House.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: Approximately 300 houses have been built.

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: The Tánaiste outlined the responses made by the Government and her Department to the task force recommendations. No Member has a patent or copyright on understanding the difficulties unemployment causes to families and communities. Every Deputy is fully aware of these difficulties and none of us needs a lecture at this difficult time for those who are being made redundant. The problem...

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: While I do not seek to take personal credit, I met Commissioner Spidla more than a year ago to discuss the globalisation fund. The fund is a positive step and an acknowledgement by the European Union of the difficulties created by globalisation, its impact on employment and the problems that flow from it. It should be noted that moneys from the fund are not paid directly to individuals but...

Mid-West Task Force: Statements (28 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: I am trying to be helpful.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to share my time with Deputy Cyprian Brady.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. It is timely that we also discuss the broader issue of industrial relations and wage-setting mechanisms in the context of it being almost 100 years since the Britain and Ireland trade boards were established to give legal certainty to committees in the context of the setting wages and conditions. It was primarily in areas where wages and...

Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: Deputy Gilmore is making allegations to the House.

Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: He is making allegations.

Banking Crisis: Motion (Resumed) (20 Jan 2010)

Billy Kelleher: The Deputy is making allegations about a party.