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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (22 Mar 2016)

Dara Calleary: 131. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will introduce a definition of the job of an "au pair" and responsibilities associated with this work in order to avoid any potential exploitation in such roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5260/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (22 Mar 2016)

Dara Calleary: 132. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has examined the regulatory frameworks and codes of conduct regarding au pairs and associated responsibilities with this work in other European Union states such as the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5261/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay (22 Mar 2016)

Dara Calleary: 133. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the preponderance of women in low-pay employment following the recent article by Nevin Economic Research Institute on the subject in its quarterly economic publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5262/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Zero-hour Contracts (22 Mar 2016)

Dara Calleary: 134. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has examined banning zero-hour contracts as has transpired in New Zealand recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5263/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (22 Mar 2016)

Dara Calleary: 135. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason legal and veterinary services are excluded from the recent Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5264/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (22 Mar 2016)

Dara Calleary: 321. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is in receipt of a funding application from an organisation (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he is aware of the urgency of the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4878/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (3 Feb 2016)

Dara Calleary: 41. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his targets to reduce long-term unemployment in terms of specific numbers and percentages in each of the years 2016 to 2020; and the measure that will be taken to achieve this. [4530/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (2 Feb 2016)

Dara Calleary: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the financial support available to a family (details supplied) who have no house insurance and have suffered great financial loss after their house was flooded twice. [4295/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (2 Feb 2016)

Dara Calleary: 200. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his projections for reducing the long-term unemployment numbers and rate in the period to 2020, by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3968/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Levels (2 Feb 2016)

Dara Calleary: 201. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeline for attaining a national unemployment rate below 6%; by year, from 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3969/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Support Services (2 Feb 2016)

Dara Calleary: 215. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to outline the actions he has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4439/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (2 Feb 2016)

Dara Calleary: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected number of new apprenticeship training places that will be created in the period to 2020, by year, by employment sector; her projected target for total apprenticeship training places by 2020, by employment sector; the spend she will allocate to create the additional apprenticeship training places; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (2 Feb 2016)

Dara Calleary: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new traineeship places she will create in the period to 2020, by year, by employment sector; her target for total traineeship places by 2020, by employment sector; the spend she will allocate to create the additional places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3966/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (2 Feb 2016)

Dara Calleary: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why she has declined funding to a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [4637/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (28 Jan 2016)

Dara Calleary: 20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the projected increase in the yield from employer's pay related social insurance, further to the increase in the minimum wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3467/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (28 Jan 2016)

Dara Calleary: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance when disabled drivers will receive their repayment for excise on fuel payments; if these payments are now overdue; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3483/16]

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Dara Calleary: Hear, hear.

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Dara Calleary: I am sharing time with Deputies Seamus Kirk, Niall Collins, John Browne and Michael Fitzmaurice. I wish to pick up on the final remarks of the Minister of State and the usual ráiméis that comes out. From 2007 to 2010, we built 14,581 new social housing units. This was an average of 107 units per local authority per year in that time. During the first three years in office of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (27 Jan 2016)

Dara Calleary: 82. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of farm payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [3347/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Eligibility (27 Jan 2016)

Dara Calleary: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she received and if she will look favourably upon an application from a school (details supplied) in County Mayo under the summer works scheme given the health and safety grounds; when she will make a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3361/16]