Results 61-80 of 129 for going forward speaker:Dara Calleary

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Feb 2014)

Dara Calleary: .... Accountancy costs and costs associated with examinership are generally too high. We tabled a number of amendments to the companies legislation of 2013 which would require those seeking to serve companies going into examinership to be up-front about their costs and publish them. They were turned down. I ask the Minister to pursue this with the agencies in his Department. This Bill or...

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State for bringing forward this legislation, which we support. Forfás has provided excellent service to the State since its foundation in 1994. As a policy think tank, it has regularly challenged enterprise policy and Government policy generally. I pay tribute to the chief executive officer, Mr. Martin Shanahan, and his team, as well as his predecessors. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority: Discussion with Chairman Designate (19 Nov 2013)

Dara Calleary: I welcome Mr. Horgan and Mr. O'Halloran. I would like to declare an interest. I put Mr. Horgan forward for appointment in 2010 on the basis of his successful track record until then. I am delighted to see that record continue. I wish him well. I ask Mr. Horgan or Mr. O'Halloran to go into more detail on the BeSMART project, which is an excellent example for any State organisation of how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Budget 2014 Proposals: Discussion with IBEC (25 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the team from IBEC. Deputy Seán Kyne and I had a fairly good discussion with Ms Suonperä and IBEC west members in Galway last week, so I will keep my questions relatively brief. I agree with IBEC's, as it were, austerity-lite proposals. What would Mr. O'Brien say to the argument that some would put forward that if we go the way IBEC suggests, it will send out a wrong...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I am not feeling a lot of love for this Bill on the Government benches. If this was Facebook, the relationship status between the Government and the Bill would be complicated at best, and divorced in some instances. Every Deputy should study Deputy Tuffy's contribution before voting on the Bill because she outlined the strengths of the current Seanad and what it can do. A large number...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...faced in the labour market today with those experienced during the Lock-out. We have a lot to be proud of as a State in terms of the evolution of labour law during that 100 years. My party was in government for many of them. I refer to the Adoptive Leave Act, the Carers Leave Act, the Employment Equality Acts, the Industrial Relations Act from 1946 onwards, the Maternity Protection...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...that, but established practice has a habit of being changed by those with less honourable intentions than the Minister. If we put it into legislation we will ensure the integrity of the board going forward, but I will not press the amendment.

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Fleming for putting forward the motion to allow us to discuss this issue this evening. I suspect that I have more sympathy for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister of State with responsibility for public service reform than most people on this side of the House having been in the very early stages of that Department and the Croke Park agreement. One...

Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...decision. Nevertheless, the SFI 2013 annual plan and its agenda 2020 state explicitly that it is operating the new policy. If SFI is implementing the main changes contained in this Bill, why are we going through the charade of having Dáil vote on them? In principle, Fianna Fáil supports this Bill but I must make it clear that I have met many people in the research community...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...and we have seen a relative lack of action on many fronts to deal with the issue. The 94,000 mortgage holders whose residential mortgages are in arrears of more than 90 days look at the effort going into so many other areas of political activity, such as trying to get a deal on debt, the Presidency and the CAP, and see a comparative lack of effort on this issue. The kinds of frustrations...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...than thou attitude on this matter is crazy. I endorse what Deputy John O'Mahony said about the Garda Síochána. Tonight, thousands of members of the force are on duty throughout the country. God knows what situations they will come across as they seek to protect the people of this state. As is the case with every operation, there are a few bad eggs. However, the vast...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...purposes must be examined. I have a certain sympathy for employers who have a right to know about someone's background. They also have the right to know whether something someone did in the past is going to influence or impact on the manner in which he or she will undertake his or her work. Employers have a right to know, but they do not have a right to discriminate. If a particular...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: ..., our education system generally needs to become more adaptable and less resistant to change. That is one message which keeps coming from industry, and this is an appropriate time to reflect that. While going ahead with SOLAS, the Government must continue to protect adult and community education within the new structures. The Minister of State briefly referred to the need to promote...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...ensure that wider electoral areas, and towns and villages on the periphery of these areas, will be at the heart of local government and will continue to have a say in the new set up? On Leader going forward and the bottom-up approach, which has been the foundation of its approach, given that many of the local development companies are to come within the remit of the local authorities,...

An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...feelings. When any garda dies in the service of the State the person who causes that death should be given the full mandatory sentence of 40 years, regardless of the circumstances because such people go out to cause these deaths. I put forward legislation on that matter. It was probably unintentional but a feeling was expressed in the media that gardaí who are shot should be...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: A lot of things happened during that time. The matter actually went the other way. We look forward to proposing an amendment in regard to that constituency on Committee Stage, to the effect that this substantial number of Mayo people be recognised in the new constituency, which should be renamed Galway West-South Mayo to reflect the large input of Mayo people. I have no doubt that Deputy...

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...and confident if those investigations were independent and involved people who had no strategic interest or involvement and could make an independent assessment. There is still time for the Government perhaps to expand the HIQA remit. We have not heard the end of this case and, potentially, other cases. The people who depend on the hospital not just for maternity services, but for...

Education Funding: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: ..., that SUSI executives were brought to account yesterday afternoon. I agree with the Minister of State that the apology from the Minister, Deputy Quinn, is welcome. However, the difficulty we have is that the Government amendment displays the same arrogance that blinded it to the problems of SUSI right up until yesterday when the SUSI representatives appeared at the committee and before...

Statutory Sick Pay: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: ..., is doing, that adds to the uncertainty. I hope we have brought the issue to a head this evening. I would like to think she, in particular, would learn from the debate and the fact that her partners in government are slightly sceptical of her views, and that she would put an end to the consultation and make a decision one way or the other. I noticed all the Labour Party contributions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...does there in addition to the work it does locally. I commend it on the initiative launched yesterday for female entrepreneurs. It is a niche that needs to be developed, and the initiative is a good start in that regard. I am not convinced that the association between Enterprise Ireland, county enterprise boards and, in particular, local authorities, is good. It has the look of a...