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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has adopted as policy the proposed amalgamation of the Church of Ireland Teacher College of Education into a new campus in Drumcondra, Dublin. [8171/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had any direct engagement, or consultations, with principals, teachers, board of management members, or parents of children in primary schools under Church of Ireland, Presbyterian and Methodist control in respect of his proposal to amalgamate the CICE with other colleges on a new campus in Drumcondra, Dublin. [8172/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Directives (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to extend parental leave from 14 to 18 weeks. [8440/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have a decision on their disadvantaged area scheme appeal; if he will expedite this appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8063/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ICT Skills Report: Discussion (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the delegation and thank it for all the work it has done promoting it outside these halls. It has answered many of our requests. We go to meetings everywhere to speak about this issue. The delegation seems happier now in respect of progress on the technology visa than it was previously. Does it think this will be done and dusted by Easter or by the summer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ICT Skills Report: Discussion (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I would not depend on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ICT Skills Report: Discussion (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: There might be something measurable in it. So the delegation is happy it will be in the action plan for jobs but there is no delivery date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ICT Skills Report: Discussion (19 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: If any member of the delegation had a choice to be Minister for Education and Skills or Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and was a dictator and did not have to worry about civil servants or unions, which post would he take? What would be the top three actions that would make an immediate impact on making the technology sector more attractive to graduates and parents? Perhaps Mr....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (20 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the total funding allocated at EU level for development programmes arising from the recent conclusion of discussions on the Multi-Annual Financial Framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8944/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (20 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the progress he has made with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and with the Northern Ireland Executive in relation to the urgent need to deal with recent sectarian violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8915/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Production (20 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action he will take to reverse the recent decline in industrial production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3565/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the next action plan on jobs will be published; if it will align job creation targets with each initiative for each Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9430/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his answer. He stated that the action plan for jobs was a series of broad measures without specific targets, but the difficulty lies in the fact that he and his colleagues in government made a commitment in the programme for Government to create 100,000 new jobs by 2016. The live register figures are not moving. The 400,000 or so people who are on the live register...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: The live register figures are stuck at where they were two years ago despite all of the Minister's talk of job creation. I welcome JobBridge and the other initiatives, but the CSO's end-of-year figures show that just over 5,000 new places were created in 2012 whereas 300,000 people were seeking places on those schemes. This is not a political charge, but a systemic one. What elements does...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made regarding the uptake of the credit guarantee scheme and the microfinance scheme; his views on whether the pricing of both schemes is appropriate to the current economic conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9431/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Acting Chairman. That was a nicely done Dublin South turnaround in the Chair. I raise a couple of issues. The 100 applications to the microfinance scheme is a healthy sign that is to be welcomed but when only 14 have been approved under the credit guarantee scheme it points to a serious problem in terms of awareness of it. When the Minister of State meets representatives of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I absolutely agree with the Minister of State with regard to the banks. In fact, I tabled a question asking for his opinion on the banks which was disallowed so I thank him for giving his opinion here that the banks are not lending enough. The two pillar banks have been recapitalised and given targets. The Minister of State is meeting business people every day and is in touch with what is...

Other Questions: Professional Fees (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: In June 2011, Forfás issued a report, The Cost of Doing Business, which said there was a danger that if structural barriers preventing costs from adjusting are not removed, once an economic recovery kicks in, recent competitiveness gains will be rapidly eroded. The danger is particularly acute on the legal side of things. Various troika reviews have also pointed this out. The...

Other Questions: Professional Fees (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: First, it is all very well to tell people to shop around. Figures from the Central Statistics Office to the third quarter of 2012 show a 2% increase in service producer prices. There is no sense in shopping around when the price curve is going up. Second, there is no Legal Services Regulation Bill. The Minister for Justice and Equality parked it, as though he could not afford to drive it...

Other Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: Who will be in charge of delivering on those 30 actions? Will it be the Department alone or will it be the usual troika of the Departments of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Education and Skills and Social Protection? How will we measure those actions? We all know the decline that has taken place in the sector. The Minister for Social Protection has confirmed to me in reply to a...