Results 9,401-9,420 of 16,746 for speaker:Dara Calleary
- Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: No, Deputy Daly may speak.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: It is more like Dougal.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: They wanted to abolish the Seanad.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Give us a flavour.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: One gets used to it after five years.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: We spent five years learning-----
- Other Questions: Lobbying Data (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: There is an obligation to review the Act this year and I want to give an idea of some of the inconsistencies within the Act. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, had meetings with the banks last year on variable rate mortgages. Two of the banks with which he met declared them as part of their lobbying returns but two others did not. Even at that level, there seems to be...
- Other Questions: Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: When does the Minister expect the changes to take effect? During the period of the last Government, only 20% of some 1,200 State board vacancies were filled through this public process. What target does he have for the new process?
- Other Questions: Programme for Government (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Can the Minister provide a date for when the costings for the various proposals within this large document will be published? Surely every Minister, now they are three weeks in office, has had a chance to establish the position. The only specifics in this document relate to housing. The document proposes year one actions and ongoing action but there is no consistency in it at all. It has...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: In regard to the public service pay commission, to which the Government agreed as part of Fianna Fáil facilitation, the Minister mentioned he will have discussions with the parties involved in the Lansdowne Road agreement. Will the Minister provide a timeline in regard to those discussions and give us some indication of when he will come back with proposals? The Minister also spoke...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: I asked about the timeline in regard to the new commission. The Minister said earlier he was having discussions with the various signatories of the Lansdowne Road agreement.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Currently.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Yes.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: That is fine. Will the Minister confirm that the template used for the fire service was used by the Teachers' Union of Ireland in negotiations? Will he reaffirm that only trade unions that have signed up to the Lansdowne Road agreement and their members will benefit if a similar template were used for other professions? Could this template, with its changes in allowances and so forth, be...
- Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: The Minister is to commit an extra €4 billion to 2021 in the capital programme. Given the long lead-in time for many projects, as we all know, surely it would be appropriate to bring forward a review of the plan in the context of discussions under way in another part of Leinster House on the serious need for urgency in meeting housing commitments. With regard to the commitment in the...
- Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Let us not get carried away by the plan which has been described as lacking in ambition. In 2019 only half of what was spent in 2008 will have been spent. The roads budget, for instance, is purely for maintenance works. In the context of the commitments in the programme for Government and given the overall figure to which the Government has committed, would it not be appropriate and...
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: The Acting Chairman missed a question.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Deputy David Cullinane's question was a priority question.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: There was another question, Question No. 35.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: I have two questions. Does the Minister have plans for other disposals of State assets during the lifetime of the new Government? Second, has all of the money associated with Aer Lingus, BGE and various other assets sold off, including the national lottery, been drawn down from the various purchasers?