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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 717. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the ECG machine at a community hospital (details supplied) in County Mayo; when he expects the machine to return to service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22147/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 841. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on physiotherapy services in County Mayo. [22812/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Repayment Scheme (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 884. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the nursing home repayment scheme ceased. [22985/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 960. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason County Mayo does not have a facility for the renewing of taxi plates in view of the fact that there are 323 taxi plates renewed in the county each year and that the Road Safety Authority is located in the county. [22150/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 961. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received an application for funding from Mayo County Council for road improvement works at a designated cycle track at Sheffrey, Louisburgh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22151/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Services (27 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 962. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans his Department has for investment in a Coast Guard unit station in County Mayo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22152/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (29 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will revise the budget 2012 changes he introduced for small schools in view of recent comments he made on the need for some communities to retain such schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23377/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (29 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his response to the closure of international language schools; the measures he is putting in place to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23378/14]

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for giving us the opportunity to discuss this issue. There is no need for us to be kicking this around the place, so to speak. Everybody on all sides of the House agrees with the phenomenal success of the community development sector since 1991, when the then Commissioner, Mr. Ray MacSharry, initially rolled out the Leader model which has developed into many...

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: We should have a European model which supports local development. It should not be lost for the sake of some tendering rules which are utterly unfair and disregard the success of that model in the first place. The Minister has made an argument concerning administration costs. There have been leaks to newspapers about the salaries of various CEOs, but moving them into county councils will...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 86. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 27 May 2014, if he will specifically answer the question regarding a feasibility study for Castlebar; the terms of reference of that study; the precise date on which the study was sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23788/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their outstanding agri-environment payment processed; if he will expedite the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23705/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that due to staff shortages and cutbacks, District Court lodgments are being made just once a week; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this is affecting the lodgment of maintenance payments to recipients' bank accounts; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that this is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his views on the fall in the rate of growth in employment in the first quarter of the year as highlighted in the quarterly national household survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23849/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: The quarterly household survey published last week showed a dramatic slowdown in the level of job creation. I seek the Minister's views on the matter. I imagine Deputy Tóibín would agree with me in respect of my next question. With leniency from the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I call on the Minister to update the House on the current situation at Bausch and Lomb. We have sought to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: Of the 14 sectors which provide data for the quarterly household survey, a total of nine recorded quarter-on-quarter declines in seasonally adjusted terms, four showed increases and one showed no change. It shows a particularly big hit for under 35 year olds and for the lowest age cohort. The Minister referred to retail. Fully 5,000 jobs were lost in retail in the first quarter. I got a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: That confidence is not translating through. The difficulty is that people are getting very frustrated when they continue to read about it. There is also difficulty when the chief executive of a job creation agency, a man for whom I have a good deal of regard and an organisation for which I have superb regard, comes out as a rallying agent for pay and wage reductions. That represents money...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the operation of the credit guarantee scheme to date; when it will be re-vamped to improve its take up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23850/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: As I introduce my second question of the morning, I ask the Minister to have some respect for the Chamber and to update Members on the Bausch and Lomb issue. We have been trying to raise the matter but it was too late to table a question for this morning's business. It is a serious industrial issue and perhaps the Minister can update the Chamber. With regard to the credit guarantee...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: We tried to raise it as a Topical Issue matter.