<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Willie O&#039;Dea &#187; News</title>
	<atom:link href="http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&#038;cat=3" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://willieodea.ie</link>
	<description>Working for You</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:37:16 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>It was Fianna Fail who made real progress on pensioner poverty</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1168</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1168#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around this time last year Minister Paschal Donohoe became very upset at me when I called for a €5 increase in the old-age pension. He was furious. He claimed that I wanted to &#8220;…create the kind of politics that has created the cost and difficulty that we want to put behind us as a country [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1168</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Varadkar will win but his patchy record makes it hard to predict if he will be any good</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1163</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1163#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 14:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past 12 months people have been asking my prediction as to who will win the Fine Gael leadership contest: Simon or Leo. I&#8217;ve been telling them all the same thing: Leo is a certainty. Firstly, Leo Varadkar has been actively campaigning for at least two years. Simon Coveney appears to have been campaigning for only [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1163</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Brexit misadventure can end only on a discordant note</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1158</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1158#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The British government&#8217;s handling of Brexit is like a comic opera but without the cheerful denouement There are moments when the British government&#8217;s handling of its Brexit misadventure seems to come straight out of the libretto of a Victorian comic operetta. Less than a week after sending her Article 50 letter, one of Theresa May&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1158</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Community supports are vital, so Government&#8217;s move to regionalise them would be a change for the worse</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1153</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1153#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Citizens Information Board, at the behest of the Government, is proposing to abolish all local Money Advice and Budgeting Service (Mabs) centres and Citizens Information Service centres throughout the country and replace them with eight regional boards. The excuse for this radical change is that, at present, there are 93 such local boards and [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1153</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Topical Issue Debate: Creagh Lane N.S. Survivors &amp; Residential Institutions Redress Scheme 31-01-17</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1146</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1146#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Deputy Willie O&#8217;Dea:  I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. I thank Deputy Paul Murphy for raising it also. We are here this evening to seek justice for the victims of sexual abuse in Creagh Lane primary school, Limerick city. That the abuse happened is undeniable. The perpetrator has been convicted [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1146</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The EU Commission has not taken legal action against others who do not levy water charges, writes Willie O&#8217;Dea</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1141</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1141#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Fine Gael&#8217;s night of the rubber knives has passed off without incident, the great pretenders must spend another month or two courting support on the rubber chicken circuit while they wait for Enda Kenny to hand over the written permission slip required to allow them to actually challenge him. Last week&#8217;s most watery [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1141</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>If we don&#8217;t address the looming pension crisis, taxpayers will foot bill for funding retirements</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1137</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1137#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last 10 years, three out of every four defined benefit pension schemes in this country have been closed down. The defined benefit pension scheme, in which members pay in an agreed amount each year and are guaranteed a defined pension on retirement, is the best form of protection against penury in retirement. The [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1137</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Older people to be empowered to stay in their home under my legislation passed by Dáil</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1132</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1132#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 10:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[State policy is that elderly and infirm people should be catered for, in so far as possible, in the comfort and security of their own homes. At present, if this is not an option, and additional support is needed, two options are available: the state, or the family, provides support in the home or in [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1132</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Caring for the elderly in their own homes isn&#8217;t just the right thing to do, it makes financial sense too</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1125</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1125#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We owe it to our older people not only to find the best way of supporting them in their old age, but to make sure that this support is delivered in the way that allows people the maximum dignity, comfort and security. That means that elderly and infirm people should, where it is humanly possible, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1125</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Older people to be empowered to stay in their home under FF legislation passed by Dáil – O’Dea</title>
		<link>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1121</link>
		<comments>http://willieodea.ie/?p=1121#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://willieodea.ie/?p=1121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Social Protection, Willie O’Dea has said that his bill, the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment Bill) 2016 which was passed last week by the Dáil has the capacity to dramatically change, and improve for the better, the provision of care to older people in Ireland. Willie O&#8217;Dea said, “State policy is that elderly [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://willieodea.ie/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1121</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
