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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (8 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concern amongst persons with a disability in Cork who have been dependent on Cork Accessible Transport for transport services which were co-funded by her Department and Popal and if she will ensure that an appropriate service is retained for these persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Order of Business (9 May 2013)

Michael Creed: Are you backing it?

Other Questions: Road Projects Status (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Macroom town bypass, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22668/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry Issues (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way his Department proposes to address certain skill shortages in the catering sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22669/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the considerable concern amongst parents of children with down syndrome regarding access for their children to resource hours under the terms of the Special Education Circular 02/05; if in particular he will address the issue whereby children with Down syndrome who have a mild learning disability currently...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the outstanding balance of the 2011 agri-environment options scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23113/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing an agri environment option scheme payment to a person (details provided) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23131/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Mortalities (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted any analysis on the level of animal mortality over the past number of months due to the extended winter and poor quality feeding; if there is any analysis into the prevalence of fluke in the national herd; and the steps he proposes to take to address this matter. [23291/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: I cannot anticipate what the Minister of State will say about this matter, but all of us would like to see a situation whereby people finishing their apprenticeships are facilitated. In addition, we also want to see unemployed young people getting an opportunity to work and long-term unemployed people getting a chance to re-enter the workforce, particularly in a sector where they may...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: I welcome the Minister of State's contribution on this. The headline stories on the collapse of the construction sector were all about the big players and I do not need to recall their names for this committee. On closer examination, it transpired that most of those companies had very few, if any, direct employees. The real workhorses of the sector, and the people we came in contact with,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: Yes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: As a lay person, my understanding of an implicit element of the law is that, if I am subcontracted on a major construction project and fear that I will not be paid, I have the right to withdraw my labour and terminate my contract, be it written or not, for the works involved. Given the fact that the Bill envisages a resolution process, I take it that there is nothing implicit in the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: Deputy Fleming has identified a real problem of cowboy companies re-inventing themselves legally and getting new State contracts. This legislation is about providing solutions where a contract has gone wrong. The State, however, should be preventing these issues arising in the first place. While I am not sure the amendment would stand up to a legal challenge, the Department should get a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: Every school principal.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: Every board of management.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: I have two observations regarding the amendment. A constituent who is a subcontractor on a State contract contacted me recently. The State was about to pay the main contractor but there was a significant danger that if the cheque was paid to the banking institution dealing with the main contractor's banking arrangements, the funds would not be released subsequently to pay anybody because of...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: Perhaps the Minister of State would examine the idea of a main contractor being obliged to register all his subcontractors with the Department.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: Will the Minister of State consider this for Report Stage?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Michael Creed: They are all taking a cut.

Other Questions: Undocumented Irish (16 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the negotiations which he had recently had in the United States regarding the issue of the undocumented Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23106/13]