Results 1,921-1,940 of 4,491 for speaker:John Perry
- Loan Guarantee Scheme: Motion (19 Oct 2010)
John Perry: My God, the Deputy is getting a conscience now.
- Loan Guarantee Scheme: Motion (19 Oct 2010)
John Perry: Electioneering.
- Loan Guarantee Scheme: Motion (19 Oct 2010)
John Perry: It is doing nothing.
- Loan Guarantee Scheme: Motion (19 Oct 2010)
John Perry: That is not the case at all.
- Loan Guarantee Scheme: Motion (19 Oct 2010)
John Perry: I move: That Dáil Ãireann: - recognises that up to 80,000 small firms employ approximately 800,000 people in every city, town, village and region in the country; - recognises that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are heavily involved in emerging sectors in areas such as green energy, bio-technology, tourism, healthcare, agri-food and creative industries; - notes with concern that 1,132...
- Loan Guarantee Scheme: Motion (19 Oct 2010)
John Perry: I welcome the Minister. The motion is simple and to the point, namely, to introduce a loan guarantee scheme for business. Small businesses up and down the country need help. The motion forms part of the Fine Gael plan to help small businesses survive the current economic crisis. Fine Gael is giving Government Deputies one last chance to provide an essential credit lifeline to struggling...
- Loan Guarantee Scheme: Motion (19 Oct 2010)
John Perry: Hear, hear.
- Departmental Guidelines (13 Oct 2010)
John Perry: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation when he intends to publish Your Business Your Bank; the reason the publication has been delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36684/10]
- Departmental Guidelines (13 Oct 2010)
John Perry: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The document, Your Business Your Bank, clearly is an indictment of the Government's attitude towards business when one considers there will have been up to 1,500 insolvencies by the end of this year and that every closure has a great impact on business. The three critical supports for business are, first, the Government has bailed out the banks,...
- Departmental Guidelines (13 Oct 2010)
John Perry: This is not good enough because the document, Your Business Your Bank, should be the first publication with regard to the criteria for drawing down funds. Credit is not available. The Minister of State should speak to Mr. John Trethowan of the Credit Review Office, who would tell him about the difficulties with banks at present. It is not a case of giving credit to non-viable businesses....
- Departmental Guidelines (13 Oct 2010)
John Perry: The Minister of State should talk to business people and they will tell him.
- Public Procurement Contracts (13 Oct 2010)
John Perry: In light of the contracts being awarded, the credit terms being attached and non-payment within 60 and 90 days, will the Minister of State review the credit terms attached by State entities? Many viable businesses are being closed due to the non-payment of debt by public institutions. Extended credit is given by companies. Something needs to be done about these credit terms. The Department...
- Public Procurement Contracts (13 Oct 2010)
John Perry: The Department opted out of that.
- Public Procurement Contracts (13 Oct 2010)
John Perry: No, it is not. The Minister opted out of the review of that matter. There should be legislation for that.
- Public Procurement Contracts (13 Oct 2010)
John Perry: The Department opted out of it.
- Written Answers — Clinical Indemnity Scheme: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (12 Oct 2010)
John Perry: Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the full cost to the State of funding obstetric claims met by the clinical indemnity scheme for each year since it was first established; the costs incurred by the State meeting claims against obstetricians engaged exclusively in public practice and those with a mix of public/private patients for each of the past three years; the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2010)
John Perry: Question 429: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo [36269/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2010)
John Perry: Question 430: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36270/10]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Oct 2010)
John Perry: Question 514: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding a payment due since 2009 under the suckler cow premium to a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36212/10]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 Oct 2010)
John Perry: Question 519: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding payment under the suckler cow premium payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim since 2009 [36267/10]