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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: 790. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the damage caused to a facility (details supplied) in County Mayo during recent storms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11676/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Community Enterprise Centres (7 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: 805. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the 2017 plans for the Enterprise Ireland community enterprise centre initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11462/17]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: What would the total cost be of - to use the phrase - equalising pay for those post-2011 entrants? It is difficult for people to share the same staff room or for members of An Garda Síochána to share the same beat while on a lower pay scale yet subject to the same demands and risks. There are various challenges in terms of the public service pay bill, but this issue is one of...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: In the context of the talks, will the Minister give us the most up-to-date timescale that he has with regard to the finalisation of Kevin Duffy's work and his anticipated timescale for talks this year on a Lansdowne Road successor to get under way?

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: 7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of equalising pay for new entrants and existing public sector workers; the steps being taken towards the equalising of pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10594/17]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: Many pay issues have been resolved in the past number of weeks beneath the surface, of which doctors are the most recent group in terms of their allowances. The ongoing issue of the new entrants is still up in the air and is the cause of some contention. Is any work underway inside or outside of the public sector pay commission to address or engage with this issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Planning Framework (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: I fear that we are just falling into this capital review and that we are ignoring potential sources of funding outside the traditional sources. The policy on public private partnerships is very conservative and not reflective of modern market trends. I am still at a loss to understand the Government's response to European Investment Bank, EIB, funds. I do not want to know that it has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Planning Framework (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the national planning framework and the mid-term capital review will be integrated in terms of approach, objectives and goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10849/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Planning Framework (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister is currently conducting a mid-term capital review and the Minister, Deputy Coveney, when he is not causing trouble elsewhere, is conducting the national planning framework. He is engaged in a relatively wide regional consultation that is provoking all sorts of interesting proposals. Meanwhile, the Minister is pursuing the capital review. What plans are there to integrate the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Planning Framework (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his response. He spoke about the €5 billion additionally allocated from 2018 to 2021. How much of that is already allocated, for example, for housing? Will that particular allocation reflect the priorities in the 2016 to 2021 capital plan announced in 2015? It is already very outdated in some of its ambitions. For example, it has a broadband speed plan...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Properties (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of properties currently owned by the State or under a long-term lease to the State that are currently vacant; the attempts that are being made to fill them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10593/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Properties (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: I want to get a sense from the Minister of the policy around properties, particularly commercial properties, leased by the State or owned by the State and empty. What work is under way to tidy the situation up? I do not want a list of every vacant property in the State but a sense of the policy, bearing in mind the need to get value for our property portfolio.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Properties (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State might be getting a bit confused. Only one Member of this House has a specific interest in Garda stations at the moment, and that is the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross. The State has been paying rent since January on the Miesian Plaza on Lower Baggot Street. A 25-year lease was agreed but staff are not due to move in until the middle of the year...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Properties (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: I am looking for a sense of what the plan is. Are there areas in the State where empty properties are leased to the State, including to State agencies? Is there a need for property on the part of State agencies in those areas? What work is being done in the Department to root out a waste of money such as this and what is being done to regularise the situation?

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: 171. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the action plan for rural development; the projects that will be eligible for the scheme; if structural refurbishment of existing business premises such as bed and breakfasts will be included in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11117/17]

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: I too compliment Deputy Michael McGrath on raising not only this issue, but insurance generally over a long period of months. It is a matter of enormous frustration, as I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, is picking up, that insurance costs are rocketing. People are shocked when they go to renew their insurance, yet all they see from this House is debates and reports being...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: Get the bus.

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister, Deputy Ross, is persistent? That is a bit of an anomaly.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Over the past number of years there have been a number of incidents, Clerys being one, and now there is Tesco. There are issues with Bus Éireann, Hastings Garage and elsewhere where workers and their rights are being trampled on and they are being treated as a commodity, even though they are the foundation of every business. Deputy Brendan Ryan asked a number of questions and called on...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: In concluding the contributions, it is notable that the House is united on this issue. The workers who are being directly affected are the foundation of Tesco's business in Ireland. As Deputy Broughan said, they are the people who worked in Quinnsworth, the company that Tesco swooped in and bought many years ago. The attempts by management to divide the pre-1996 and post-1996 workers...