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

Dara Calleary: We have been pointing out the difficulties with this programme for some time. The Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is currently discussing SME financing and had the pillar banks in a couple of weeks ago. We got the sense that this was an add-on and that the credit guarantee scheme was not being taken seriously. This was something that was there but the banks were not...

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

Dara Calleary: I have no doubt people have benefited, but €450 million has been budgeted for the scheme. Another scheme I have pointed out to the Minister, which has the support of the joint committee and of many Members in the House, involves crowd or source financing. We have been encouraging the Minister to put a pilot scheme in place. Surely, money is going to waste while we wait for a review...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 10. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made to date on implementing the report of the Entrepreneurship Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23792/14]

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: This question is on the report of the Entrepreneurship Forum, which was published in the usual style, as the Taoiseach arrived and did a press conference, high-fived everyone, and told them they were great. That was on 23 January. It is now five and a half months later and we have had nothing. Will the Minister update us on the implementation of the recommendations and where the report is at?

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He can imagine the frustration of business people and entrepreneurs who are successful, who have created jobs, who have taken the risk and who put their valuable time, which they do not really have, into producing a report. The report was presented in a clear and cogent manner and there is no rubbish associated with it. However, they now are...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: While I genuinely acknowledge the Minister of State's response, the greatest threat to entrepreneurship is an interdepartmental committee. Any sense of entrepreneurship or ambition tends to get parked and choked within such a committee. Were there a commitment that this matter is being dealt with and led at ministerial level and that the Minister of State, together with the Minister, Deputy...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, announced here yesterday evening that some people who have lost their discretionary medical cards will now have them returned. It is still not clear whether all people will have them returned and the process for return has not been clarified. This is a particularly dramatic U-turn for this Government, particularly when its members all spent 18 months denying...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: Can the Minister outline his response to the suggestion, which has been made off the record, that he is the block to a resolution? Second, with this debacle in mind, and granted that he has an overseeing role in the Department of Health, can he express full confidence in the Minister, Deputy Reilly's ability to continue his job as Minister for Health?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: What?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: That is an extraordinary response from the Minister. The Cabinet, according to the Minister, Deputy Noonan, had a long discussion on medical cards - as did all of the Members' parliamentary parties. Some 16,000 discretionary medical cards were cut from January 2013 to April 2014. That is a cull in any language. Those are discretionary cards taken from people in the case I described, taken...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: To return to the issue we just discussed, the danger of an interdepartmental working group is that it drags on and given the complexity of the work at hand, it may drag on beyond the recess. Will the Minister give a commitment that the Minister for Justice and Equality will come into the House within two weeks to give an update on the work of that group and on its findings and that the...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: What about mediation between Ministers?

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: No.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Manufacturing Sector (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that is being made towards the goal of increasing employment in the manufacturing sector by 20,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23793/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 122. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in County Mayo will have their full medical card restored in view of the recent announcement that reviews of discretionary medical cards is to be suspended; his views on whether a child suffering Down syndrome should be automatically entitled to a full medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24075/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his view on whether changes to the school transport scheme, introduced in 2012-13, are causing undue hardship to students in the Castlehackett and Corrandrum areas of County Galway; his view on whether it makes no sense that concessions previously given are now being withdrawn; his view on whether it makes no sense that these rules now mean...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the health and safety supports that are available to teachers in one-teacher schools, in view of the number of schools that will be in position owing to his 2011-2012 budgetary decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24352/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will instruct departmental officials to immediately process an emergency works applications for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24780/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 369. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline his views on whether a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, a national broadband scheme customer, is not receiving an adequate service for the premium; if he will outline the download and upload speeds as recommended by the national broadband scheme provider 3 guidelines; his views on whether the person...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the current agreement on cattle exports to the UK; if he is satisfied that enough is being done to promote this trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24405/14]