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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Levels (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 220. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions that have been taken by the south-east economic jobs forum set up by her predecessor; her views that given the figures contained in the Central Statistics Office's quarterly national household survey for the first quarter of 2016 of 12.5% unemployment in the region that more needs to be done; the further actions the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Levels (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 221. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland will take to reduce unemployment and create employment in the south east; if they will prioritise the south east given the Central Statistics Office's quarterly national household survey for the first quarter of 2016 of 12.5% unemployment in the region; the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Levels (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 222. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to implement the recommendations in the south-east economic development strategy published by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13910/16]

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I agree with the points made by Deputy Eamon Ryan regarding the immediacy of the committee's work in the context of budget 2017. While we need to inject ourselves as quickly as possible, in some respects that is a separate issue at this point. We have five weeks within which to agree a framework, which will require an awful lot of work. I welcome the establishment of this committee, which...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I will be brief because I want to hear from the officials as well. We have terms of reference. They have been set out for us. It is clearly set out in the clár. There are five elements to it. We need to focus on those five elements. Issues around future opportunities, past failures and the mechanics of what this future committee can or cannot do will be fleshed out and teased out...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: After my colleague, of course.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Management Structures (2 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 28. To ask the Minister for Health if the new policy strategy and integration unit established within his Department will support in its work the new Oireachtas committee that will be established to develop cross-party consensus on the future of the health service over ten years, as per the programme for Government and Government approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13704/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (2 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 106. To ask the Minister for Health how the ongoing work being conducted by his Department and the Economic and Social Research Institute's three year programme on health reform will support in its work the new Oireachtas committee that will be established to develop cross-party consensus on the future of the health service over ten years, as per the programme for Government and Government...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water (2 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of his commitment to retaining Irish Water in public ownership, and given this, if he will introduce legislation to amend section 4 of the Water Services Act 2013, which refers to the subsidiary, Irish Water, as a private company limited by shares. [14067/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (8 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full cost of reverting to a single-tier pay structure across the public sector. [14620/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (8 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of eliminating the lowest grade on the pay grade scale across the public sector and merging those on the lowest grade on the pay grade scale with the second grade on the pay grade scale; the cost of eliminating the first and second lowest grades on the pay grade scale across the public sector and merging those on the first...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I welcome the secretariat paper which is very helpful and gives some shape to our work. This follows some confusion during the last meeting in which we were all involved. The paper has provided some welcome clarity. The Chairman's paper was also very helpful and I agree with much of what is in it. There are a number of key issues which we need to discuss and consider in depth. First,...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Yes. However, there is still confusion in some respects. Unless we get clarity from the start, we will end up going around in circles. We have terms of reference which were set down by the Government. The problem in the process so far - I am being helpful and constructive in saying this - is that we have not had any outline of what those terms of reference are. The Government has set out...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: We have not had that. If we got that, at least we would know. Obviously, the Government has a view on what it wants the committee to do and on what it wants this costings unit to be. We have terms of reference which are to enable the set up in terms of process, structure, etc. However, we are still operating under terms of reference that we have not gone through.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (8 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: The Oireachtas has mandated us but we have a terms of reference. I am assuming the Government will have its view. The programme for Government deals with some of this.

Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Is it the intention of the Government to provide an update to the Oireachtas on the status of the regional jobs action strategies that were published to much fanfare? The most recent quarterly household survey indicates unemployment in the south east is still at 12.5%, compared with less than 7% in Dublin, less than 6% in the south west and 5.5% in the east.

Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: Unemployment in the south east is still almost twice the national average, which is not good enough. When is it expected to see an update on these regional strategies? They are meant to deal with these issues but, unfortunately, in the south east they have not been dealt with to the satisfaction of people living in the area.

Equal Status (Equality Proofing) (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (9 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to promote equality in the functioning of public bodies, to provide that regard be had by public bodies to the desirability of reducing socio-economic and other inequalities, to provide for the carrying out of equality impact assessments in respect of measures that are likely to have significant impact or effect on the equality...

Equal Status (Equality Proofing) (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (9 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time." I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the time to move this Bill today. It amends the existing legislation and aims to provide for equality-proofing of Government policy, budgets and public bodies through impact assessments. Its aim is to promote equality in the functioning of public bodies and to provide for the carrying...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (9 Jun 2016)

David Cullinane: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to further resource Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to address the heavy caseloads of social workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14829/16]