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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services (12 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 594 of 27 November 2012, if she will expedite this reply (details supplied) in view of the delay experienced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6696/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (12 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: Is there any indication of how much will be saved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister and his officials and compliment them on their work to date, in particular on the Leader programme and its fantastic collection of projects throughout the country. The Minister referred to the issues being faced by small towns in particular. Small towns have borne a huge brunt of the economic downturn. Does the Minister have in mind any specific initiatives to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: One of the downsides of the national spatial strategy is that towns defined as hubs are excluded from accessing Leader funding. Does the Minister propose to engage around that issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: Will the Minister ensure that?

Magdalen Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: Former Deputy Tom Kitt.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (13 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the impact that Budget 2013 has had on children and youth affairs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7318/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (13 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the payment arrangements in place in respect of yard supervision carried out by two teachers at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; if he will explain the reason these teachers still have outstanding payment due for 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7665/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (13 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Social Protection to explain if Garda Clearance is needed for all new recruits to community employment schemes or just for those working in certain sectors; if clearance is required for existing participants on all schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7707/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (13 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a disadvantaged area scheme derogation appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo [7653/13]

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: Go on.

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I will deal with the previous contributions towards the end of my remarks, but I start by acknowledging that this is a very important deal and the effort put in by the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform and the staff of the Department of Finance and the Central Bank in achieving it. It is only fair that this be done - a fairness lacking on the other side of the House on...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I think the Taoiseach defined and christened the then Minister for Finance as Scrooge because he was not spending enough money. The 2007 general election was characterised by the now Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources planning to spend so much money like a child on Christmas morning. There was no notion of fiscal responsibility or discipline in advance of that election.

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I will talk to the Deputy later. The fiscal issues remain. There is a notion that they have been resolved by the deal, but it is not being propagated by too many. The need for fiscal discipline continues and we must abide by the guidelines of the ESM. Critics maintain that the deal should have been better. Clearly, they do not understand how the process works. Prior to the last general...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to reduce the burden on non-consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7501/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance (14 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health when the White Paper on Financing UHI will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7486/13]

Other Questions: Road Maintenance (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that is available to improve road networks in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8556/13]

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: This time last week, I asked the Taoiseach to give a voice to the voiceless and tonight he did so. I welcome the heartfelt and genuine apology he made as the Taoiseach and a citizen of the State. His apology is owed to all of the women concerned. He has given a voice to those whose voice was stolen from them and in finding their voice, the survivors of the Magdalen laundries and their...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Alcohol Advertising (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position on sports sponsorship by alcohol companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8536/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process that applies to student grant applications in the event of a separation maintenance agreement being in place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8074/13]