Results 1-20 of 191 for cork speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (1 Feb 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of eligible claims currently being made for the rent tax credit made in counties Limerick, Clare, Tipperary, Waterford, Cork and Kerry, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4253/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (23 Nov 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of earners in counties Limerick, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford who will benefit from the USC reductions announced in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51218/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Nov 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers in counties Limerick, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford claiming the rent tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (14 Dec 2022)

Willie O'Dea: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position on the M/N20 Limerick to Cork road scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62401/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Willie O'Dea: ...University Hospital Limerick. The Taoiseach indicated in previous replies to me that he had some sympathy with the notion of an elective-only hospital for the mid-west along with the hospitals in Galway, Cork and Dublin. The cause of the problem is the shortage of beds. The number in University Hospital Limerick is insufficient to meet the needs of the population. I want to find out...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Willie O'Dea: In view of yesterday's announcement, I want to ask about an essential piece of infrastructure, namely, the proposed Cork-Limerick or, as I prefer to say, Limerick-Cork, motorway. I am as wise today as I was yesterday. What I seek is an assurance that this will actually happen. If it is to happen, can the Minister give us a clue or his opinion as to what year it might start? I am inundated...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wage Subsidy Scheme (25 Mar 2021)

Willie O'Dea: ...jobs in Rehab Logistics are not even in my constituency. The factory is located in my constituency but most of the staff are from parts of County Limerick that I do not represent, as well as from Cork, Clare and Tipperary. I have a personal interest in this because I know those people. I have gotten to know them and their families over the years. They are beautiful people to whom life...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects (19 Feb 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the construction of the proposed motorway between counties Limerick and Cork; the projected date it will be open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7663/19]

Pathway to Redress for Victims of Convicted Child Sexual Abusers: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2018)

Willie O'Dea: ...away from the legal distinctions for a moment and talk about the victims. As the Minister knows, they are real people. John Allen was abused at the age of nine in the famous North Monastery primary school in Cork, as he cried for his mother. Many years later when the perpetrator of that abuse, the man that ruined his life was brought before the courts of this country, John Allen went...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (17 Nov 2015)

Willie O'Dea: ...risks not stemming the constant flow of 70 to 80 families a month losing their homes and becoming homeless in Dublin alone. This problem is also rising now in other major cities nationwide such as Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford". Rent supplement has not been raised in three years despite rents rocketing by 30% to 40% in this period. We need to close the gap between this payment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have been transferred from rent allowance to housing assistance payment in Cork County Council, Waterford City and County Council, South Dublin County Council, Kilkenny County Council, Monaghan County Council and Louth County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42827/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (5 Dec 2013)

Willie O'Dea: ...500. As Members will know, Pfizer is employing, very gainfully, more than 3,200 people in this country. It recently made 177 people redundant in its plants in Ringaskiddy and Little Island in Cork. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, expressed confidence that this does not reflect any wider problem within the pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless,...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...whereby these committees, which were set up to provide pay and conditions for particular workers, had a lot of powers. They could recommend rates of pay, that certain conditions which applied in Cork might not apply in Limerick or that different conditions might apply, etc. Consequently, the principal case put by counsel on behalf of the plaintiff in this case was that these powers were...

Job Losses (7 Jun 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The job losses in Cork represent a quarter of the Pfizer jobs force in the county. Our first thoughts must be with the workers who are displaced. It is incumbent on us and on the Government in particular to ensure those workers get the best possible deal. They are going out into one of the worst labour markets in the history of the country. It will be very difficult for those generally...

Haulbowline Island (8 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Defence the input he has had on the proposed clean-up of Haulbowline Island, Cork; if he specified the areas of the island that should be dealt with; his plans for the future of the island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6729/12]

Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)

Willie O'Dea: ...services. The major Defence Forces commitments included: transportation of health care personnel to and from hospital and clinics and to patients in outlying areas such as Galway, Drogheda, Cork, Tullamore, Naas, Donard, Enniscorthy, Tiglin, Wicklow, Tullow, Gorey, Harolds Cross Hospice, Blackrock Hospice and the Drogheda House Hospice in Kildare; transportation of patients to hospitals...

Defence Forces Deployment. (20 Jan 2010)

Willie O'Dea: ...and clinics; the distribution of food and supplies in a number of areas; the delivery of water supplies in a number of local authority areas; the provision of transport for the Garda Síochána in Cork; and the provision of a number of air ambulance missions across the country. An Air Corps helicopter was utilised to transport RTE engineers to repair a transmitter at Kippure Mountain in...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (17 Dec 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...INF BN - A COY 36 34 RES INF BN - B COY 48 34 RES INF BN - SP COY 19 31 RES FAR - HQ BTY 24 31 RES FAR - NO 2 GUN BTY THURLES 27 31 RES FAR - NO 3 GUN BTY NENAGH 30 31 RES FAR - NO I GUN BTY CORK 31 31 RES CAV SQN - SQN HQ 45 31 RES FD ENGR COY - COY HQ 26 31 RES FD CIS COY - COY HQ 11 31 RES FD MP COY - COY HQ 39 31 RES LSB - BN HQ 1 31 RES LSB - TPT COY 36 31 RES LSB - MED...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (17 Dec 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...Artillery Regiment (RAR). They have also informed me that as a sub-unit of 31 Reserve Artillery Regiment, No 1 Gun Battery will continue to parade at their current location in Collins Barracks, Cork and that they will be included in training plans for the 31 RAR.

Written Answers — Ministerial Travel: Ministerial Travel (16 Dec 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...19/01/2009 19/01/2009 180 Baldonnel - Brussels - Baldonnel Finance 22/01/2009 22/01/2009 40 Baldonnel - Derry - Baldonnel Foreign Affairs 23/01/2009 23/01/2009 120 Baldonnel - Derry - Baldonnel - Cork - Baldonnel An Taoiseach/ Tanaiste (Enterprise, Trade & Employment)/ Foreign Affairs/ Education/ Transport/ Finance/ Health/ Social & Family Affairs/Agriculture/Arts,Sports & Tourism...