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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 369. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the position regarding a proposed new water scheme for a townland (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he will consider changing the criteria regarding the minimum contribution requested from households to enable rural group water schemes such as the one in question to go ahead; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Severe Weather Events Response (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 375. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if moneys allocated towards the repair of flood and storm-damaged infrastructure in County Mayo are being diverted from other funding set aside for other developments such as harbours and slipways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11954/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Establishment (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 488. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the design costs for the new Tusla logo; the tender process entered into for the logo design, that is, was it open or restricted, was it advertised on e-tenders and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11568/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 529. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated diabetes paediatric clinical nurse specialist is to be appointed at Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11729/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if flexibility will be provided on the moratorium on recruitment in order to allow the Road Safety Authority to recruit driving instructors and testers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11730/14]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I raised a question about this on Second Stage. At present, we can see the budget for Forfás, given that it is a separate agency of the Department, and we can decipher how much of the budget is being spent on independent research. Will it still be possible to see how much the Department is spending on independent research and research that might challenge the Department as well as...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Forfás budget for research was approximately €4.5 million when one stripped it out from all the other costs. Will we still see a research line in the Department, that is, what the Department has spent on its internal research? The Department is acquiring a very qualified and talented bunch of people. Will they still be able to do the type of research that Forfás did...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: What is the up-to-date position on Carrisbrook House, Ballsbridge, the Forfás office building in Ballsbridge which has one tenant. There seems to be an inability to let the remaining floors.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Is it not odd when the IDA is citing the lack of office accommodation in Dublin as an issue, particularly between the canals, that a property with four empty floors right bang in the middle of where everybody wants to be is available on lease from the OPW? There seems to be an attitude to this asset that it will be alright on the night. On Second Stage, I had suggested it would be perfect...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Does the existing tenant have a veto over new tenants?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Either formally or informally?

Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Taoiseach pulled a few rugs himself.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Registration of Title (12 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a land registry transaction will be completed (details supplied) as its ongoing delay is causing financial hardship to the party involved. [12449/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which he will address the falling level of employment in the 15 to 34 age bracket shown in the recent quarterly national household survey report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12292/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Tá a fhios agam gur inniu Lá na Gaeilge agus beimid ag baint úsáide as an Ghaeilge agus an Béarla. We welcome the improvement in the employment figures, but when one looks at the breakdown and the population figures, there were 13,500 fewer people aged between 15 and 34 employed compared with 12 months previously. The number of 15 to 24 year olds in the workforce...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Employment rose by 3.3% but average weekly earnings are down by 0.6%. The income tax figures for the first two months of the year are flat compared with the same period in 2013. If we have the kind of employment growth the Minister is trumpeting constantly, there should be a similar growth in income tax receipts. This shows the jobs being created are paying less and that is still driving...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I am not making any thesis that anyone who sets up their own business are inferior. What the Minister read into my argument in his response was that half of those jobs he claimed he created were in fact created by people who have the courage and the ability to set up their own company. If one takes those figures out of it, then 33,000 jobs were created. The fact is that the jobs are lower...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: It should not be abused by the Minister so as to massage the figures, however.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Forfás strategy for the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12293/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: This year's version of the jobs action plan acknowledges that the construction sector has, by international comparison, overcorrected and is now operating below its long-term sustainable level. What is the Minister's plans for employment creation in this area?