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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his views on the fall in the rate of growth in employment in the first quarter of the year as highlighted in the quarterly national household survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23849/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: The quarterly household survey published last week showed a dramatic slowdown in the level of job creation. I seek the Minister's views on the matter. I imagine Deputy Tóibín would agree with me in respect of my next question. With leniency from the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I call on the Minister to update the House on the current situation at Bausch and Lomb. We have sought to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: Of the 14 sectors which provide data for the quarterly household survey, a total of nine recorded quarter-on-quarter declines in seasonally adjusted terms, four showed increases and one showed no change. It shows a particularly big hit for under 35 year olds and for the lowest age cohort. The Minister referred to retail. Fully 5,000 jobs were lost in retail in the first quarter. I got a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: That confidence is not translating through. The difficulty is that people are getting very frustrated when they continue to read about it. There is also difficulty when the chief executive of a job creation agency, a man for whom I have a good deal of regard and an organisation for which I have superb regard, comes out as a rallying agent for pay and wage reductions. That represents money...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Manufacturing Sector (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that is being made towards the goal of increasing employment in the manufacturing sector by 20,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23793/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 122. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in County Mayo will have their full medical card restored in view of the recent announcement that reviews of discretionary medical cards is to be suspended; his views on whether a child suffering Down syndrome should be automatically entitled to a full medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24075/14]

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: We should have a European model which supports local development. It should not be lost for the sake of some tendering rules which are utterly unfair and disregard the success of that model in the first place. The Minister has made an argument concerning administration costs. There have been leaks to newspapers about the salaries of various CEOs, but moving them into county councils will...

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for giving us the opportunity to discuss this issue. There is no need for us to be kicking this around the place, so to speak. Everybody on all sides of the House agrees with the phenomenal success of the community development sector since 1991, when the then Commissioner, Mr. Ray MacSharry, initially rolled out the Leader model which has developed into many...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 86. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 27 May 2014, if he will specifically answer the question regarding a feasibility study for Castlebar; the terms of reference of that study; the precise date on which the study was sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23788/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their outstanding agri-environment payment processed; if he will expedite the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23705/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that due to staff shortages and cutbacks, District Court lodgments are being made just once a week; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this is affecting the lodgment of maintenance payments to recipients' bank accounts; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that this is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (29 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will revise the budget 2012 changes he introduced for small schools in view of recent comments he made on the need for some communities to retain such schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23377/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (29 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his response to the closure of international language schools; the measures he is putting in place to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23378/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review capital acquisition tax thresholds in view of the impact of rising property prices on the amount of inheritance tax many persons now face; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23038/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Deposit Interest Rates (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the current penal tax regime that applies to deposit and pension savings is discouraging persons from making provision for future financial needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23039/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Debt (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the employment prospects for the small and medium enterprise sector would be enhanced by more comprehensive action to tackle SME debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17456/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Training Programmes Provision (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a two year FÁS course (details supplied) has ceased after one year. [22388/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Mayo which faces the prospect of losing a teacher from September 2014; the options that may be available to the school management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22148/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to incorporate Chinese into the leaving certificate curriculum; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22201/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that FETAC course operators must run their courses in FETAC-accredited centres; his views on whether this is a restrictive rule; his views on whether local community centres and civic centres would be ideal locations for the hosting of such courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter....