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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Insolvency Act (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on developing a new structured non-judicial debt-settlement system in view of the report submitted to him by the Company Law Review Group in September; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3404/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their appeal for invalidity pension processed; if she will expedite the appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3372/13]

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Tánaiste wrote the book on that.

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I do not think the Tánaiste read his brief this morning.

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: There is a degree of confusion with regard to the status of the reports of the interdepartmental committee into the Magdalene laundries. The Taoiseach answered questions from both Deputy McDonald and me this week, in which he stated the Government has yet to receive the report and yet. at the beginning of January the Minister for Justice and Equality stated he expected to receive it within...

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: Has it been received by the Government?

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue, about which we have all probably received representations since Christmas and particularly in the past week, as correspondence has arrived from Eircom and Electric Ireland in particular relating to another of the bombshells from the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton. It was sneakily announced in the budget but it is...

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State is a businessman. If 405,000 customers were to contact him tomorrow seeking a deal, he would fall over himself to give them a discount. Some 405,000 people are in receipt of the energy allowance, with a further 397,000 in receipt of the telephone allowance. The Minister of State referred to the increase in the costs of these schemes, which is also a reflection of a...

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: Older people do not switch.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his assessment of the impact to date of the Action Plan on Jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3563/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I wish the Minister and his two Ministers of State every success over the next six months during the Presidency. The Department has ambitious targets and a significant work programme. On behalf of everyone, I wish them well. I tabled a parliamentary question to every Minister earlier this month to ascertain what they had delivered under Action Plan for Jobs and, more important, how many...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Minister is in charge of the line Department for job creation and, therefore, one would assume the Department would be in a position to crack the whip. The Minister for Finance's reply to my parliamentary question about his Department's job creation targets and implementation plan was that it was a matter for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. He was not overly worried...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has any plans to change either consumer or employment legislation in the view of recent events at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3564/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: This is the second January in a row where workers have been forced to occupy premises. In this case, the workers involved heard about their fate on the media, which is completely unacceptable. I am not sure about the Minister's faith in the receiver when it was the National Consumer Agency that found that HMV Ireland was a separate operation from HMV UK. We did not know that until the NCA...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: On the role of the company during the Christmas period, does the Minister intend to ask the receiver to pursue the issue that the company continued to trade knowing it may not have been able to honour the purchases?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: That advice changed.

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The difficulty is that we are fighting a major fire with a water pistol. I welcome all of the worthy initiatives referred to the Minister of State. I would also welcome if the Minister of State could - I accept he might have this information with him now - update me on the microfinance fund, the pricing of which we are receiving some negative...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: There is something else we can do. This became apparent over Christmas. The difficulties being experienced by people who sign off to take a temporary or three-day week job over Christmas and the nightmare it is for them to sign on again needs to be addressed. Surely the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation could bring its will to bear on the Department of Social Protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a retired teacher (details supplied) in County Mayo paid emergency tax on pension arrears and after retirement working as a temporary teacher; if their days worked would be included for pension purposes. [3697/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Numbers (29 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the number staff in her Department and the number who have transferred to other Departments excluding former FÁS and Community Welfare Officers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4089/13]