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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed timescale for completion of a new national cancer strategy, the proposed membership of the review group, if he will consider including a patient advocate on the review group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14855/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was initially informed that the person would receive the special rate of student grant, only to have this offer withdrawn one month later; her views on the fairness of this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14763/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes that have been introduced to Special Education Support Services; the rationale behind these changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14914/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 817. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the checks he has in place to ensure that each local authority is in compliance with Government rules on procurement; if his Department carries out inspections or audits of local authority procurement practices; if so, the local authorities where breaches have been observed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Legal Services (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 818. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the names of each firm of solicitors that has been appointed by each county council to provide legal services since 2010; the names of those firms that subsequently were retained by each of the councils; the reason there is a practice of appointing firms to a panel and subsequently...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Legal Services (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 819. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of money spent by each local authority in the State on legal fees and services in each of the years 2010 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14776/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission: Chairperson Designate (14 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I welcome Dr. de Buitléir and wish him well in the task ahead. I suspect that being on the board of management of the local national school was probably the toughest of all the jobs he has held. During the hearings on the Low Pay Commission legislation I expressed a concern that there was a lack of direct employer representation on the body, but I have had discussions with Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission: Chairperson Designate (14 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I asked about the issue of a living wage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission: Chairperson Designate (14 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I have another question. I am conscious that the deadline for the receipt of submissions was yesterday evening. Does Dr. de Buitléir know yet how many were received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Community Partnership Mobilisation Programme: ConnectIreland (14 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I welcome Ms Murphy and Mr. Dowling and congratulate them. I commend this initiative. The figure of 2,500 that Ms Murphy gave came as a bit of a shock - a good shock. They are companies with which the IDA had not engaged. What kind of companies were they? Were they 2,500 connectors? That is a huge figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Community Partnership Mobilisation Programme: ConnectIreland (14 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: Super. As regards the community action plan, as Ms Murphy said, we published a report recently on reviving towns. Can she send us on her own thoughts of how that would fit in to the report? It is something I was not aware of and that is probably my fault. I would be interested to see how that plan is working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Community Partnership Mobilisation Programme: ConnectIreland (14 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: We regularly have discussions at this committee about the IDA not servicing large parts of the country for whatever reason, and ConnectIreland is potentially the alternative for many communities, so we would love to work together on that.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form and on a county basis, the total amount of moneys spent by each local enterprise office and-or county enterprise board in 2014 on grants to new start-ups, and on grants to existing small and medium enterprises; the total amount of jobs claimed to have been created; and if he will make a statement...

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I commend Deputy Michael McGrath for raising an issue that is important to mortgage holders and the banking system. If the Minister, Deputy Noonan, who has joined us, told 300,000 people that he would give them back between €992 and €4,000, the benches would be full of cheering backbenchers rushing to the radio talking about the great Government. Yet the benches are empty....

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: So did Deputy Joan Burton.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (1 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the European Commission staff working document (2015, 27 final) - Country Report Ireland 2015, which states that lending to Irish businesses declined by 8.1% year-on-year in October 2014 while interest rates for new corporate loans of up to €1 million to small and medium enterprise are higher in Ireland than in most other countries in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Fund for Strategic Investment (1 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of Irish projects which the Government has identified for drawing down funding from the European Commission’s €315 billion European Fund for Strategic Investment, which fund promotes job creation, long-term growth and competitiveness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12090/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (31 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on a payment under the 2014 disadvantaged areas scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [13181/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (31 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 368. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce changes to parental leave rules to allow parental leave be taken for all children up to 18 years of age; her views that parents who have not taken parental leave for children up to 13 years of age should be allowed to take it, while those children are teenagers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13346/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (31 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 655. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow local authorities to re-open the tenant purchase scheme; the reason the scheme has been closed for 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13132/15]