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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (13 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider introducing flexibility to casual workers receiving social welfare benefit in Budget 2013 with a hours based rather than days based system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49885/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a student grant application will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he will confirm that as a former recipient of the special rate of grant for disadvantaged students, the person will receive full fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50001/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (13 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all of the categories in order of severity of fisheries offences listed under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006; and if he will outline the sanctions being imposed for such offences. [49767/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (13 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline on a county basis, the number of home help cases that have been reviewed; if he will outline on a county basis the number of cases that have had their hours reduced as a result of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49512/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Expenditure (13 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive paid for taxi services in County Donegal since the patient bus service between Letterkenny and Dublin has been abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49768/12]

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the publication of the Bill and the work done by the Commission on Credit Unions earlier this year, which led to the Bill. It is important that we recognise and acknowledge the importance of the credit union movement in Ireland. We have more credit union members per head of population than any country in the world. On a relatively small island, 2.9 million people have accounts in...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: We never claimed that we would not do it.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: They are getting paid.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: This is November.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health the extent of staff shortages in acute hospitals; if the bill for agency staff in acute hospitals has reduced; the other alternatives to agency staff that are being used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48924/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make health service employees work longer hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48937/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been refused the maintenance element of the student grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49063/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (8 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo may expect their 2011 agri environment option scheme payment to be finalised; the reason for the delay in processing and paying out the outstanding element of their application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49161/12]

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: What is "medical assessment" in English?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Applications (7 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a suckler cow grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will issue; the reason for the delay in processing this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48915/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Service: Discussion with Employment Appeals Tribunal (6 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: Mr. Dorney's objection to the single person is specifically in regard to unfair dismissal and not anything else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Service: Discussion with Employment Appeals Tribunal (6 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: I was unfairly dismissed before we got a chance to implement it. I did not go to the rights commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Service: Discussion with Employment Appeals Tribunal (6 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: I wish to declare an interest in that I commissioned the original business review when I was Minister of State with responsibility for labour affairs. I noted the query in the written submission about the reduction of resources in the Employment Appeals Tribunal. I checked with the Department and I am informed that the number of administrative staff at the tribunal had increased from 33 in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Service: Discussion with Employment Appeals Tribunal (6 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: I make that point by way of clarification in case officials in the Department were inclined to ignore me, but Ms Kate O'Mahony was not ignored.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Service: Discussion with Employment Appeals Tribunal (6 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: Mr. Dowling suggests the delay in hearing cases does not reflect a fault in the current structures but rather is directly due to the failure to provide the Employment Appeals Tribunal with adequate resources. He also points to the increase in the number of hearings. I pay tribute to Ms Kate O'Mahony, the former chairperson. If civil servants were inclined to ignore me, they certainly were...