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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a critically low level of medical nursing manpower at Letterkenny General Hospital; and steps that are being taken to address this situation. [28613/12]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give details of any discussions he or any of his Cabinet colleagues have had in relation to a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; the funding currently in place for the progression of this project; the potential sources of funding for the project; if he is in receipt of an application for funding from any of...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: I thank my colleague, Deputy Niall Collins, for giving us the opportunity to have this debate. We had two days debate following publication of the Mahon report. Much of the focus of that debate and in other fora was on the personalities involved in the Mahon tribunal, the amount of money involved and the disciplinary action that followed. No one focused on the recommendations on planning....

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: We took very tough action and we are continuing this process.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: I did not mention the Labour Party.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: What I am saying is that we have faced up to this as a party and dealt with it in the most severe way we could. We have a right to stand here and make suggestions on the future of planning in the country. For Deputies in the Labour Party to throw across the floor that it is all our fault is wrong.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: We have taken action and it must be acknowledged that as a party we took very strong action as soon as the report from the Mahon tribunal was available to us.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: There is a thing called justice, Deputy Dowds.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: There is court procedure. As I stated at the outset, we need to consider where we are going with regard to planning. Let us forget about the personalities and everything else. We must consider what to do to repair the damage that has been done and give those living in unfinished estates throughout the country some idea that their investments will be protected and the estates will be...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Yours too.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: The Minister has started very well.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: The Moriarty tribunal, for example.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: What about big extensions for Ministers' houses?

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Cheered on by Fine Gael.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: We have to get the facts correct.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: She is afraid.

Public Sector Staff (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28294/12]

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: My party will support this motion. I wish to pay tribute to the Garda for its work in this area during the past 12 months. Anybody who read about the case in Galway last Monday, to which the Minister referred, will look at the detail and the work that had to go into the prosecution of that case on the part of gardaí. Although some of the provisions of the Act overall enabled the...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: We are all agreed that one of the challenges of this sustained period of peace on our island is complacency. We cannot assume that it will always be this way. For this reason, Fianna Fáil will be supporting renewal of this legislation. The Minister outlined seven incidents, all of which were serious and had the capacity to maim, damage or, in some instances, result in mass murder. I...

Written Answers — Job Initiatives: Job Initiatives (12 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made in developing the pathways to work plan; if a decision has been made on the use of private contractors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28092/12]