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Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (16 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider requesting that the Health Service Executive to extend the clinic opening hours for the donation of blood platelet donations to cover at least one weekend per calendar month in view of the fact that the current arrangements make it very difficult for potential donators to attend on a regular basis; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Staff (16 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will issue contracts of employment to home help personnel throughout the country; if he will acknowledge the benefit of home help personnel to the Health Service Executive; if he will acknowledge that home help personnel assist with budget savings within the HSE; if he will further acknowledge that home help personnel are currently employed...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme Funding (16 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for continued funding for the rural transport scheme; if he has any plans to withdraw the funding or change the scheme in anyway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17319/13]

Other Questions: Overseas Development Aid (28 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to enhance auditing and spending review in Uganda following last year’s misappropriation of Irish overseas development aid funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15581/13]

Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: Will the Tánaiste confirm that legislation relating to the unified patent court will be published in the next session? Does the Government still intend to proceed with a referendum on the issue in the autumn?

Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: Is the referendum still going ahead?

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: Did the Tánaiste sign off on that?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Industrial Relations Issues (28 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update in relation to the ongoing HR and staffing issues at Trinity House; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15747/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Industrial Relations Issues (28 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the problems with staffing levels at Trinity House; if she has acted on reports she has received on this issue and to other HR related issues at the institution; if she is satisfied that the institution is fully in compliance with its health and safety responsibilities to its staff; and if she will make a...

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for tabling this motion and publishing the Mortgage Resolution Bill. I also thank him for the work over the past two years on the issue. In these two years the situation has considerably deteriorated and we have seen a relative lack of action on many fronts to deal with the issue. The 94,000 mortgage holders whose residential mortgages are in arrears of more...

Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: When did the Minister of State learn it?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (27 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps and criteria to be followed by a person to apply for entitlements under the national reserve. [15429/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Upward-Only Rent Reviews (26 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: Will it be this year?

Topical Issue Debate: Upward-Only Rent Reviews (26 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: The judgment yesterday gives us the opportunity to discuss this matter today. I must clarify for Deputy McNamara that I did not make a direct link. Unfortunately, the Minister did not get a chance to address the work of NAMA. Can it be confirmed that any NAMA rent deal will be entered into the new property leases database? Will the Minister give us an idea as to when that database will be...

Topical Issue Debate: Upward-Only Rent Reviews (26 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing us to raise this issue which follows a very significant court judgment yesterday on the lease for Bewley's café on Grafton Street. I recognise there is a specific component in that lease, at which people are looking. However, for the first time, the issue of protection and property rights has been challenged in the courts. This is a chance for...

Topical Issue Debate: Upward-Only Rent Reviews (26 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: We did, actually. We brought forward the legislation. The Minister was very vocal in opposition on so many issues, including this one. He is now in government and had the chance for two years to do something about it, but he has sat on his tail and the retail industry has been left like so many other groups he courted. On this occasion he should be conscious that it is not only me who is...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: They were represented by trade unions.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Taoiseach is not showing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Skills Development: Discussion with Skillnets (26 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: I welcome Mr. Nuzum and the team. I have always been a fan of Skillnets. It is close to market. Mr. Nuzum's organisation is responsible for much of the shake-up in education and training in the past few years. I am interested in two matters. ManagementWorks is probably a departure from Skillnets original core mission. How many have gone through it at this stage and what is Skillnets...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (26 Mar 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his proposal on internal convergence is still on the table for the Common Agriculture Policy negotiations; if this proposal has been modified, and if so, the way it has been modified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14646/13]