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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (12 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if quarries which are currently operational will continue to operate during the Substitute Consent Process contained within the Planning and Development Amendment Act 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28362/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (12 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason funding which was previously sanctioned by his Department is not being made available for a project (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28363/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Expenditure (12 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 184. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form on a monthly basis for 2013 the total cost of sending soldiers from the military barracks in Dundalk, Athlone and Donegal, namely the 27 Infantry Battalion, 6 Infantry Battalion, 28 Infantry Battalion and 2 Field Artillery Regiment, to carry out routine regimental duties(details supplied) in a tabular form on a monthly...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Correspondence (12 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 187. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is in receipt of information (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28395/13]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 13: In page 7, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Cost benefit analysis of changes to Science Foundation Ireland 11. The Minister shall within 12 months from the passing of this Act prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on a cost benefit analysis of the measures provided for by this Act, setting out the costs incurred, and the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I am amused when the Department comes back and says that a proposal is "resource intensive". In other words, the Department does not want to do it and will resist. The same reply is given for parliamentary questions and so on. The remit has been extended but the budget is being reduced, so some areas will lose core funding. Has the Department conducted an analysis to determine which...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I will withdraw my amendment and will table a similar amendment on Report Stage because it is fundamental to our key concern about the Bill. I ask the Chairman for some leeway. The Minister of State mentioned stem subjects, education and maths. He is also the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, so if it is inappropriate for him to comment then he can tell me so....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: All right.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 9: In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 14 of the Act of 2003 6. Section 14 of the Act of 2003 is amended by adding a new subsection after subsection (3):"(4) Where the Director General has responsibilities outside of the work of the Foundation assigned to him or her by the Government in relation to science policy the Director...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 10: In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: "Amendment of section 23 of the Act of 2003 6. Section 23 of the Act of 2003 is amended by adding a new paragraph after subsection (2)(c):"(d) detail the balance of expenditure between basic and applied research, including where no such distinction is possible, and between the different strategic areas of...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 6: In page 5, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:“(b) to any cross-border institution established within the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, or”.I welcome the all-Ireland approach to this Bill. There is a practical concern that Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, funding goes beyond universities and institutes of technology. It has also...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I am thinking of future bodies. If any existing bodies were to develop a research remit - one does not know where they will go - or if we were to establish future all-Ireland bodies, we would not need to change legislation in the future just for the sake of a word in the existing legislation here.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: Could Deputy Sherlock name those sections he referred to again?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 8 of Act of 20036. Section 8 of the Act of 2003 is amended by inserting the following after subsection (7):“(8) In appointing members of the Board the Minister shall seek to ensure that it contains a balance of expertise in the areas of academic research, industrial...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I accept that, but established practice has a habit of being changed by those with less honourable intentions than the Minister. If we put it into legislation we will ensure the integrity of the board going forward, but I will not press the amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 8: In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 9 of the Act of 20036. Section 9 of the Act of 2003 is amended by deleting subsection (11) and replacing it with:“(11) The Minister shall ensure that there are not fewer than four men and four women in the composition of the Board,”.”.I am conscious that SFI has...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I accept the issue on cultural change and I used to think culture might do it, but it has not in many areas of public of life. At some stage legislation must force a culture change and then maybe with that change made we can repeal the legislation but in the meantime legislation is a good place to start. I will not press the amendment now but will do so on Report Stage. We need to start...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: If we are to change the remit of SFI, the amendment would require a Minister to provide the Oireachtas with a justification to change any future remit of SFI in the way it occurred when energy was added to the remit. Future Ministers may seek to broaden the role of SFI into areas that funding will not cover, with associated weaknesses, but amendment No. 5 in particular would prevent that...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, lines 14 to 16, to delete all words from and including "or" in line 14 down to and including "practice" in line 16.There is a concern that in extending the standard by which SFI will award funding to a more general "any other review process equivalent to relevant international best practice", we are watering down peer review. Peer review is a gold standard...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: Will the Minister of State consider for Report Stage some sort of grading of activity in peer review? I accept that conferences, etc., do not need peer review but the vast majority of SFI's work would require peer review status. Will the Minister of State consider some kind of amendment for Report Stage requiring specific elements of SFI's work and funding to have a peer review element as...