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Written Answers — Job Protection: Job Protection (3 Mar 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action she will take to protect jobs at a company (details supplied) in County Louth; her views on the recent job loss announcement at this plant; her plans to provide additional jobs in Dunleer, County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10652/10]

Written Answers — Long-term Leasing Initiative: Long-term Leasing Initiative (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 176: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a detailed statement regarding representations made by him to banks, financial institutions and the National Asset Management Agency and other Departments on some banks refusing to agree to support his Department approved schemes from local authority and housing associations for the leasing...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: On the Dr. Neary issue-----

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: -----I also am deeply concerned.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: My office has been inundated with calls from victims of his butchery in Drogheda, from very upset mothers or those who cannot be mothers because of him. I fully concur that there ought to be a prosecution of this man. His insulting contemptuous remarks on television were appalling.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Regarding the industrial development Bill, it is a year since Michael O'Leary put on the record to the Minister's office his offer of 500 jobs to this State. A year later 200 of those jobs have gone to Scotland. He said 300 are still on the table. He wants the Tánaiste to call his bluff on this matter. Notwithstanding the difficulties on all sides, will the Tánaiste make one final...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister for Transport, Deputy Dempsey, will not even talk to him or meet with him.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: His laissez-faire attitude in the Department of Transport is disgraceful. He is asleep on the job while jobs are going to other countries.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: It is not a lie. Withdraw that.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister must withdraw that remark, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: There is no truth whatsoever in that.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: The truth is that in answer to a parliamentary question this week the Minister said he did not meet with Ryanair to discuss the proposal for jobs.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: You sit on your butt and you do nothing.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: The aviation industry is in crisis and the Minister is doing nothing about it.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Tánaiste and the Minister should be drummed out of office.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: You are some fairy tale, Minister.

Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: On the same issue, what has happened in my constituency office is that while members of staff in the Department of Social and Family Affairs staff will answer the telephone, they will not talk to me, although they will talk to my constituents. A political decision has been made by the unions not to co-operate with Members of the Oireachtas. It is a critical issue which needs to be urgently...

Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: In response to Deputy James Reilly, the Taoiseach said that the Government is committed to sorting out its issues with Ryanair. The Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, has refused to meet Ryanair or to get involved in this serious crisis in the aviation industry. Some 1,000 redundancies may take place in Aer Lingus-----

Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will finish by mentioning that Ryanair has arranged a press conference for 3.30 p.m. today to put the facts of this case on the public record. There is a serious difference between the Government's version of the truth and Ryanair's interpretation of the facts.

Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister is not intervening. The whole thing will collapse around us. This laissez-faire attitude to aviation jobs in Dublin Airport is not at all acceptable.