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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Tá a fhios agam gur inniu Lá na Gaeilge agus beimid ag baint úsáide as an Ghaeilge agus an Béarla. We welcome the improvement in the employment figures, but when one looks at the breakdown and the population figures, there were 13,500 fewer people aged between 15 and 34 employed compared with 12 months previously. The number of 15 to 24 year olds in the workforce...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Employment rose by 3.3% but average weekly earnings are down by 0.6%. The income tax figures for the first two months of the year are flat compared with the same period in 2013. If we have the kind of employment growth the Minister is trumpeting constantly, there should be a similar growth in income tax receipts. This shows the jobs being created are paying less and that is still driving...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if part-time jobs are included in the figures provided by the Industrial Development Agency for employment in its client companies; the number of the net jobs created by IDA client companies in 2013 that were part-time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12163/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether regional development goals are receiving adequate attention from the Industrial Development Agency Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12162/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Missions (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans for future joint trade missions with Ministers from the Northern Ireland Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12165/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Staff (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customs and excise officials who work at Ireland West Airport, Knock; if they work there on a full-time or part-time basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12538/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Programme (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 213. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when work will be completed on the adoption information and tracing Bill; her views on whether the current facilities for adoptees wishing to find their birth parents are adequate; her views on whether the inability of adoptees to access their family's medical history is a major health concern for those involved; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria and application process involved for inventors/product developers in having new products added to the list of products available on the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12480/14]

Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Taoiseach pulled a few rugs himself.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Registration of Title (12 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a land registry transaction will be completed (details supplied) as its ongoing delay is causing financial hardship to the party involved. [12449/14]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I raised a question about this on Second Stage. At present, we can see the budget for Forfás, given that it is a separate agency of the Department, and we can decipher how much of the budget is being spent on independent research. Will it still be possible to see how much the Department is spending on independent research and research that might challenge the Department as well as...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Forfás budget for research was approximately €4.5 million when one stripped it out from all the other costs. Will we still see a research line in the Department, that is, what the Department has spent on its internal research? The Department is acquiring a very qualified and talented bunch of people. Will they still be able to do the type of research that Forfás did...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: What is the up-to-date position on Carrisbrook House, Ballsbridge, the Forfás office building in Ballsbridge which has one tenant. There seems to be an inability to let the remaining floors.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Is it not odd when the IDA is citing the lack of office accommodation in Dublin as an issue, particularly between the canals, that a property with four empty floors right bang in the middle of where everybody wants to be is available on lease from the OPW? There seems to be an attitude to this asset that it will be alright on the night. On Second Stage, I had suggested it would be perfect...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Does the existing tenant have a veto over new tenants?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Either formally or informally?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Certification (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a €500 levy is being placed on approved training organisations, ATOs, to register themselves and their trainers with SOLAS/FÁS for one year; that it costs €200 to register each supplementary tutor; his views on whether this is a harsh fee and is restrictive for ATOs; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Data (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form, on a county basis, the total number of applicants to Student Universal Support Ireland for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years; the number of applicants who were awarded a payment; the number who were not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11592/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Data (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fall of 10% in Student Universal Support Ireland grant awards in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11593/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money spent on a proposed new school building project (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he will confirm if capital grant assistance towards a new school or devolved grant assistance was previously offered to the school management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11903/14]