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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: The intention is not to create an extra layer of bureaucracy but to provide a final arena for assessment in which all of the checks the Minister of State has outlined could be considered by an independent person to ensure they were all covered. The consequences for the status of someone who loses a permit are significant.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: If someone’s application is turned down, there could be a final court. I could include a time limit if the Minister of State wished and resubmit the amendment on Report Stage. The process takes such a long time and the consequences of losing an existing permit are so severe that this would cover all of the angles.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: Yes.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: It would be a higher officer in the Department, somebody with a fresh eye but with a knowledge of the system. I would be happy to return to this issue on Report Stage and clarify it in the meantime.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: There is always a first.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: How many Report Stage amendments in total are envisaged and when will we see them?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: There will be a handful of amendments to every section, by the looks of it. Is it a Kildare handful or a Cork handful?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons in receipt of fuel allowance who only have oil heating may receive their payments in two lump sum payments rather than €20 per week. [28037/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 333. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reintroduce the tenant purchase scheme to allow tenants in rented local authority houses to purchase their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28354/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turbary Rights (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 350. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the allocated turbary history of a plot of bog in County Sligo; the present position regarding a person (details supplied) in relation to the right of turbary over said plot; the options that exist for the person named to establish the history of the allocated turbary; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 556. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in County Mayo will have their medical card reinstated in view of the Government decision to reinstate medical cards that were removed between July 2011 and June, 2014; his views that children with Down syndrome should have an automatic entitlement to a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28387/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [28537/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 593. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Mayo. [28538/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 644. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the area manager position will be filled at the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, local area office in County Mayo; if this position is being advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28394/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) ISME and New Generation Development (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Chairman and Mr. Fielding for his input. I agree with most of his prescriptions. Internet shopping is an issue on which we need to focus. There is a generation probably just behind us who might never use a shop to buy anything. They will go in to fit something on and then buy it online. What work is ISME doing with its members in engaging with them and getting them to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) ISME and New Generation Development (1 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank Mr. Moran for his input. Where do New Generation Development and the marketing company, which are great ideas, fit into the existing structure? Our Leader partnerships are doing similar work.

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 1:In page 8, after line 35, to insert the following:“(3) The Minister shall make provision under this section whereby it shall not be a breach of this Act (or any statutory instrument relating to competition law), for the State to negotiate fees in relation to professional contracts for services from members of professional bodies, and a list of such services and...

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: The State enters into consultation and discussion with the power of this law behind it, and this restricts the ability of organisations to negotiate fully on the part of their members. I do not support, and am absolutely against, price fixing and collective price fixing, but the State is in a monopoly situation. For instance, only the State gives out a GMS contract. Earlier the Minister...

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: Legal fees also.

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Report Stage (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 6:In page 10, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(2) Any resources used by the Commission shall be allocated by application of a set of priority principles in the public interest.”.The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that in the operation of its duties and the carrying out of its tasks, the new competition and consumer protection...