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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Data (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: I seek some information from the Minister on the background to pensions and the data his Department is using. I tabled this question in anticipation that we might have some sort of resolution to the current pay talks, so I would appreciate it if the Minister could give the House an update on the status of the talks and when he envisages they will be competed. I understand they will not be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Data (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: On the pension issue, can the Minister clarify if any work was done specifically in advance of this round of talks? Has the Government made proposals in this round of talks around pensions and pension contributions? With regard to the talks, does the Minister have a new timescale in mind? Can he confirm the reports that even though we are ten days into the process, a pay offer has yet to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Data (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: With regard to pensions, changes were made to pensions and all the people involved suffered deductions as part of the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation. I am aware the Minister has an ongoing engagement with the Alliance of Retired Public Servants, but what status will its members have in terms of the pay talks? This affects them. I know they have a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide for equal pay for new entrants into the public service; the timeframe he expects this to become a reality; the cost of implementing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26408/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: 20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to support the passage of the Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017 which passed Second Stage, and was referred to select committee on 22 February 2017; the measures he is taking to ensure that contracts are structured in a way that enables SMEs to compete; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood prevention programme; the key projects that will be carried out in 2017; the key projects that have been completed in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of trips taken by each hospital in 2015 and in 2016 to recruit nurses; the amount spent on each trip and on expenses associated with the trip; the number of nurses recruited on each trip; the number of nurses that subsequently commenced employment in the relevant hospital; the number of nurses still in employment at each hospital to 30 April 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by his Department, by agencies of his Department or by the HSE in recruiting nurses from abroad in 2015 and in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26456/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: I welcome representatives from the Environmental Pillar. Unfortunately they are here on a day when it seems that President Trump is about to declare environmental war on the world by pulling out of the Paris Agreement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: It actually makes our discussion more relevant. I have a number of questions on the aggregates levy. At present there is a serious issue with pyrite around the country. It was confined to Dublin for some time but is beginning to emerge all over the country. Would the proposed levy assist in dealing with that and in ensuring that it does not happen again?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: Obviously the diesel equalisation policy will have the biggest impact on our agricultural sector, which is already facing enormous challenges as a result of Brexit. What would that equalisation cost the agricultural sector? What effect would it have on jobs in that sector?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: The representatives are benign on green diesel, even as an anti-smuggling measure. Is that correct?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: The rush towards diesel began less than ten years ago when changes were made to the car tax system to favour diesel cars. That was lobbied for by the witnesses' predecessors. Was that a mistake and does it need to be changed?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: Is the infrastructure in place to make the kinds of changes the witnesses envisage for electric cars? The main reason for the reluctance among the public to make the switch is that the charging infrastructure and everything that goes with it is not in place.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: I was going to expose the Deputy.

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: I join in the tributes to the Taoiseach and his wife Fionnuala. Those of us who are honoured to be in the House are tough enough to take it but our families are not. The service the Taoiseach has given both to his party and the country has taken a toll on his family. We acknowledge that and thank his family for that. He made an announcement yesterday extending a strategic development zone...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: Are you actually going to answer it?

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: You have about the rest of them.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason an applicant for a local authority mortgage cannot use social welfare income as reckonable income for mortgage assessment, even in situations in which the payment may be a long term one such as in the case of a daughter or son caring for a parent or a parent caring for a child with additional needs; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply a list of available occupation therapists by county in tabular form; the number of occupational therapists currently unavailable due to leave; the number of occupational therapists on leave that have been replaced; the reason occupational therapists on leave are not being replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25771/17]