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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will respond to the continuing concerns of thousands of small businesses here regarding the Minister for Social Protection's proposal for a mandatory sick pay scheme; if he has carried out an impact assessment on the effect that a mandatory sick pay scheme would have on small and medium enterprises in terms of additional costs and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: We all share the Minister's wish to improve the competitive nature of enterprise. The difficulty with the proposal is that the Minister for Social Protection has form. Last year, she pushed through substantial changes to the redundancy rebate payment system. She justified this on the basis of the argument that large companies can afford to make the payment. Nobody disagrees with that but...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: We all agree there is a danger of dependency on illness benefit but the Minister is still dodging the question on the rate in the public sector by comparison with that in the private sector. Is the problem far greater in the former than in the latter? In asking this, I am not pitting one against the other but pointing to the nucleus of the problem. The Minister for Social Protection,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: It has been nominated to me.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: I have no objection to that.

Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: The Acting Chairman has been quite tidy for me up to now. The Minister cannot believe the answer he has given. He had a considerable track record going into this Department. We have a 30% youth unemployment rate. The rate in Europe is 23%, the common rate having regard to all labour market conditions in Europe. Therefore, have a serious problem, yet we get more words and verbiage. The...

Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: My question was whether this goes far enough in tackling youth unemployment. Youth unemployment is what I am interested in here. What is being done about it?

Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation following figures in the most recent quarterly national household survey, his views on whether the jobs plan is successful in tackling long term unemployment; the new and additional steps he will take to tackle long term unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41646/12]

Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Perry, for his earlier remarks. The Minister referred to the IDA's record year in 2011. The authority has also had a very successful nine months in 2012. One of its big announcements was of 1,000 jobs, but 500 of those jobs had to be filled from outside the State. Meanwhile, 306,000 people are unemployed, of whom 60% are long-term unemployed. We...

Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: Irish Water will employ existing county council workers. There will be no new jobs.

Other Questions: Industrial Development (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: It is all in Galway. Nowhere else has received it.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: It had nothing to do with the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: I believe it was from inside the Taoiseach's manifesto.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: Like the Taoiseach did not know about the primary care centres.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: No one believes him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the status of a school building project (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41469/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the way in which the jobs plan is creating jobs for the long term unemployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41823/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form a summary of each application received from the Health Service Executive in County Mayo for support from the special delivery unit, to include a summary of the proposal, the amount of money requested, the current status of the application and for those applications under consideration, when a decision will be made; for those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the future management of Mayo General Hospital in the context of his proposed restructuring of hospital groups; the impact of his proposals on services at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41706/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the more than 100% increase in admissions to the accident and emergency unit at Mayo General Hospital between July 2011 and July 2012, the fact that the majority of this increase is due to patients from County Roscommon presenting for treatment at Mayo General Hospital as a result of the curtailment of accident and emergency services at Roscommon...