# willie-odea - Sunday 19 May, 2013
Both Richard Bruton and Brian Hayes say Shatter’s comments added context to complaints about the penalty points inquiry.
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# willie-odea - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Deputies Willie O’Dea and Mary Lou McDonald spoke about the issue during Leader’s Questions in the Dáil today.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton said the department received 4,339 claims for domiciliary care allowance in 2012.
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# willie-odea - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Reports suggest the property tax will cost homeowners between €200 and €400 a year – but Eamon Gilmore would not discuss the figures in the Dáil this morning.
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# willie-odea - Saturday 10 November, 2012
Consumer confidence has plummeted as we worry about the forthcoming budget and retailers say they’re feeling the pinch but will the government do anything to stop the leaks and speculation?
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# willie-odea - Saturday 20 October, 2012
Figures released by Joan Burton show 4,169 are appealing a refusal, with 321 of them waiting over a year for it.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Speaking in the Dáil last night the Minister said the fall in consumer confidence was probably due to Ministers talking about issues like child benefit and property tax.
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# willie-odea - Monday 1 October, 2012
Fianna Fáil wants Social Protection Minister Joan Burton to honour a pre-election promise and say that child benefit will not be cut in the forthcoming budget.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
The Irish Times cited an unpublished report from KPMG that indicated the State was facing a massive pensions and social welfare shortfall by 2066 in a story today that the government has played down.
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# willie-odea - Friday 7 September, 2012
It has emerged this week that the scheme is the subject of a review by an interdepartmental group ahead of December’s Budget.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
Fianna Fáil TD said the Minister for Social Protection should be upfront about changes to criteria for the allowance and explain application refusals and delays.
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# willie-odea - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
The Minister noted a surge in applications for disability allowance, but denied any changes in criteria or conditions.
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# willie-odea - Sunday 29 July, 2012
“I am not guilty of these charges.”
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# willie-odea - Thursday 26 July, 2012
Former FF minister says proposals target higher-ranking bankers and their work performance.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
Willie O’Dea’s new proposals would see bankers have bonuses deferred for five years, and forfeited if the bank loses money.
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# willie-odea - Thursday 12 July, 2012
The former deputy leader of the party had resigned in February but is now back on the party’s front bench.
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# willie-odea - Thursday 7 June, 2012
Figures from the CSO’s Quarterly National Household Survey put unemployment at its highest level since the financial crisis.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
The former Green Party chairman says the current environment minister is “as good an anti-Green as we could get”.
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# willie-odea - Thursday 3 May, 2012
Eamon Gilmore said it was his personal view that anyone who did not deal with the scale of the abuse outlined in a BBC documentary this week should not be in a position of authority.
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# willie-odea - Thursday 26 April, 2012
Mattie McGrath, Simon Harris and Willie O’Dea together at last. Say no more.
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# willie-odea - Saturday 31 March, 2012
Former Defence Minister Willie O’Dea has spoken candidly about Bertie Ahern’s evidence to the Mahon Tribunal in 2007.
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# willie-odea - Thursday 8 March, 2012
Seán Gallagher’s Áras bid may have been derailed with or without the tweet from fake McGuinness account. But the point is we need to know who was behind it, says Derek Mooney who knows all about losing a job amid a Twitter controversy…
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# willie-odea - Monday 20 February, 2012
Leo Varadkar says that while a new law allows drivers without Irish licences to get points, the IT isn’t in place to implement it.
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# willie-odea - Tuesday 14 February, 2012
Both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin have heavily criticised what they see as the re-announcement of certain schemes and a lack of targets to reduce unemployment.
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# willie-odea - Thursday 26 January, 2012
Warnings that an exodus of midwives from the HSE will lead to deaths have been branded ‘outrageous’ by Enda Kenny.
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# willie-odea - Friday 20 January, 2012
# willie-odea - Monday 14 November, 2011
Nine things to know this morning…
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# willie-odea - Monday 7 November, 2011
Nine things to know this morning…
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# willie-odea - Tuesday 23 August, 2011
The withdrawal of the party’s most likely candidate all but assures that Fianna Fáil will not nominate anyone for the election.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 1 June, 2011
Nine things you need to know by 9am: Aer Lingus heads to LRC to avert flight cancellations; what US diplomats really thought of Ireland’s politicians and the girl stoned to the death because of a beauty contest.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 6 April, 2011
Junior minister Fergus O’Dowd tells the Dáil that the installation of water meters in every home could take until 2015.
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# willie-odea - Sunday 3 April, 2011
In today’s 9 at 9: Police in Northern Ireland appeal for information about yesterday’s deadly attack on a young PSNI officer; the search resumes for two missing fishermen; and violence continues in Ivory Coast.
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# willie-odea - Sunday 27 February, 2011
Kevin Humpheys has taken the final seat for Labour in Dublin South-East. Check out how the first day of counting unfolded in key constituencies across the country.
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# willie-odea - Saturday 26 February, 2011
Every hour – on the half hour – TheJournal.ie brings you your fix of election tallies, predictions and results. Here’s how the winners and losers of GE11 are playing out so far.
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# willie-odea - Wednesday 16 February, 2011
Nine days to go – our daily round-up of the winners and losers of the day. Who’s been getting the boot in (literally)?
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# willie-odea - Tuesday 1 February, 2011
Limerick TD and former minister says his name was cleared by a detailed investigation and he now hopes he can help Fianna Fáil in the election run.
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# willie-odea - Monday 31 January, 2011
Micheál Martin unveils a team of 21 new spokespersons – including some unfamiliar faces from outside the Dáil.
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The 21 names – including two councillors, and 14 without any cabinet experience – who form Fianna Fáil’s new front bench.
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# willie-odea - Sunday 30 January, 2011
Micheál Martin looks set to bring Limerick TD Willie O’Dea back to the front bench ahead of the general election.
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# willie-odea - Friday 31 December, 2010
In February the underdog won the Superbowl; Willie O’Dea resigned as Minister for Defence; and Chile was rocked by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
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Noonan on emigration comments: ‘I am being quoted out of context’
The Finance Minister’s comments that emigration was in some cases “a lifestyle choice” have been heavily criticised by opposition parties.
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