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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the implications of the Supreme Court ruling on Registered Employment Agreements; his plans for legislation following the ruling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24550/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: Can I make a general comment about questions today? I tabled eight questions about the serious issue of SME finance and finance for business and its implications for job creation and enterprise growth. All of the questions were transferred to the Department of Finance for answer by the end of June. I am writing to the Ceann Comhairle on the issue. SME finance is a major issue for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: I want to put it on the record of the House. It is unacceptable that we are not allowed to raise SME finance and the various challenges surrounding it with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: In his response, the Minister outlined that the key challenge is that new employees can now be taken on by existing companies and others under the minimum wage. That gives such companies a huge competitive advantage over those companies that are part of the REA and have contractual obligations to it. As long as there is some sort of doubt over this, that competitive advantage will grow and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: I emphasise that there is a serious lacuna here for companies adhering to their contractual obligations under the REA system and who will continue in good faith despite the striking down of the REA as opposed to other companies who will now use the competitive advantage open to them while that space is there. The Minister said the REAs are not enforceable in law and there is now a huge...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether a target of 20,000 additional manufacturing jobs can be achieved by 2016; the measures necessary to achieve this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24405/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: We have placed a great deal of attention in recent years on the service and pharmaceutical industries but it is important to remember that approximately 206,000 people are employed in manufacturing. In 2012, manufacturing companies exported €79 billion of merchandise and sourced €14 billion of produce from within the island. It is a hugely important sector and I welcome the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister's confidence. Has he given the increase in labour costs in what were previously developing economies to which a great deal of manufacturing was outsourced in the middle part of the last decade and identified any competitive advantage that may be derived from that labour cost increase and quality issues in those countries that may assist him in reaching the target?...

Other Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: The innovation vouchers were there long before the Minister was appointed.

Other Questions: Credit Availability (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: Some of my transferred questions were to seek the Minister's views on whether the Credit Review Office had sufficient resources to fulfil its mandate. What are the Minister's views on the success of the office to date? One of my questions sought clarification on whether the Minister agreed there should be formal targets for the banks in respect of debt resolution for SMEs similar to those...

Other Questions: Credit Availability (22 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: Another issue is the delay in approvals from the time an application is submitted. While it is still a problem that applications are not being submitted, the review of a submitted application may be dragged out for months such that the project for which finance is originally sought may no longer be viable. The business may actually have moved on. Will the Minister put turnaround targets in...

Other Questions: Private Sector Investment (23 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: 6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the way that private sector investment including the European Investment Bank can be best used to complement public expenditure to maximise economic growth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24644/13]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: At least it is not an Alan Shatter novel.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Minister could read John Grisham.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: Or introduced to Dublin 4 by somebody from rural Ireland.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: How did he treat the garda?

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: Except for the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation of resource hours he proposes for children with Down syndrome designated as mild on the ID spectrum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25477/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (28 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain if, in the circumstances of two or more children from one family attending third level education who are entitled to the special rate of grant based on their parent's earning, the rate is divided between the students or are each eligible for the full amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25595/13]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Dara Calleary: Which book?