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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jan 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm when the Five Year Schools Building Programme will be updated and published. [4430/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services Provision (29 Jan 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the creation of the new Workplace Relations Service; and if he will indicate when this service will be operational. [4427/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (29 Jan 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the progress made in the planned merger of the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency; his plans to ensure the new body is as effective as possible in promoting fair competition among businesses and in upholding the rights of consumers, both of which are central to our country's economic recovery. [4428/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Merger of State Bodies (29 Jan 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps being taken to ensure, while acknowledging the need for the State to secure savings, the continued existence of An Comisinéir Teanga and the effective performance of the functions ascribed to this position as set out in the Official Languages Act 2003. [4524/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Secretary General and officials from the Department and wish them well in the Presidency and in their efforts on job creation. Youth unemployment is a Europe-wide problem. We have heard about it in countries like Spain and Greece but the figures from Sweden are a surprise, where there is up to 24% youth unemployment. The issue is clearly linked to the global problems in...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Seán Kyne: Of all Government responsibilities, health is perhaps the most significant. The provision of health services is a vital aspect of any functioning and compassionate society and one of Government's most important tasks. Everyone requires health care at some point in his or her life. Ensuring that all who need care receive it depends on careful planning, the allocation of significant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made to ensure that doctors and medical professionals in the health service, such as non-consultant doctors, are employed on contracts with suitable rest periods and time off which is vital for the well-being of the medical professional as well as for upholding the high standard of patient care [5005/13]

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)

Seán Kyne: With the agreement of the House, I will share my time with Deputy Anthony Lawlor. Can I be the first Government backbencher to welcome the announcement by the Taoiseach and Minister for Finance and commend them for their great work in the last couple of years to get a deal on the promissory notes? This is a great step for the country. I am pleased to speak on this important topic. Few...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2013)

Seán Kyne: It is difficult for people my age and younger to comprehend that places such as these laundries existed as institutions. It is extremely difficult to believe that people ended up in such places, stigmatised by society, forgotten, and abandoned in some cases by family. For too long Governments have not adequately addressed the plight of the women in question. This Government, following an...

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

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister and his officials to the committee. I acknowledge the level of reform the Minister has initiated across a range of sectors, much of which is positive. Having read the rural challenge group's report, I realise it is difficult to consider rural areas in isolation from urban ones because there is a huge interconnection between both. My own constituency of Galway West...

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

Seán Kyne: Some of them would be at the lower end of the scale, such as Comhairle Ceantar na nOileán Teo.

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

Seán Kyne: It was there as a local voluntary group since 1989.

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

Seán Kyne: It has a long history and was operated through Galway Rural Development at the same time.

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

Seán Kyne: We have the advantage of a vibrant Gaeltacht and offshore islands.

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

Seán Kyne: We do not need any extra. It is just a question of protecting the ones we have.

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

Seán Kyne: They are all very much supported by the local community. It is all very positive.

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

Seán Kyne: The groups that have benefited are hugely impressed with the hands-on approach of these companies, irrespective of the lower than average pay the chief executive officer has achieved compared with some of the other companies in other areas.

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

Seán Kyne: They have a genuine concern that were Galway County Council - which as a former member I respect - to get its hands on this money, it would not flow out to the peripheral areas.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (13 Feb 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm if the number of intern places for graduates of medical colleges here will be increasing in view of the fact that there has been an increase in the number of medical students in recent years in view of the immense benefit such intern places are to graduates for gaining valuable practical experience. [7669/13]

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

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans to intensify the use of the railways in promoting tourism such as rail tours which are an exemplary way of attracting tourists and visitors Dublin to the regions outside of Dublin. [8378/13]