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

Dara Calleary: The groceries order.

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

Dara Calleary: Where do we start? I noted the Minister's comments about predatory pricing and retention of title, which he read from the memorandum, but when it came to protecting the big beast he was quite passionate about it. I do not know if the Minister really understands what is happening with small producers. On "Planet Richard" all is lovely and everybody gets on well together. It is all fine,...

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

Dara Calleary: The Minister has left out the phrase "having regard to subsection (1)", and that subsection outlines a range of conditions, including "the desirability of the promotion of competitive trade" and "the interests of consumers". There is a range of conditions and this does not give carte blancheto a Minister or supplier. The notion that Kellogg's or similar companies could set the price of Rice...

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

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 52:In page 84, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“(2) Subject to a grocery goods undertaking choosing to enter into a contract, relevant grocery goods undertakings shall have a contract with a grocery goods undertaking for the sale or supply of grocery goods.”.The legislation as framed is very vague on the need to have a contract between a...

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

Dara Calleary: I am happy to withdraw the amendment if the Minister can give me a guarantee that there will be strong provisions within the regulations on contracts, what they should contain and their enforcement. When is it planned to publish the regulations?

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

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 54:In page 84, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:"(a) specify that payments for grocery goods supplied to relevant grocery goods undertakings to be made within 30 days,".It is current market practice that payment terms are being extended to 90 or even 120 days. Many small producers and suppliers cannot afford to sustain this practice, but there is no...

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

Dara Calleary: I welcome the indication that this matter will be provided for in the regulations. It is frustrating, however, that so much depends on those regulations, which we will not see before the legislation is passed. The Minister is saying that regulations cannot be brought forward in advance, but we can safely assume, based on the Government's majority, that what we are looking at here will, in...

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

Dara Calleary: I will withdraw it, pending the regulations.

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

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 56: In page 84, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "(c) specify Retention of Title for goods delivered until such time full payment is received,".

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

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister and his officials for their assistance on the Bill right through Committee Stage and Report Stage. I also thank the various groups that engaged with us. During the course of the Bill we pointed out some important issues that need to be addressed. Perhaps they are outside the remit of the Department but I hope the other Departments will note them. I do not know whether...

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

Dara Calleary: We will wait until tomorrow to wish the Minister well in the workplace relations issues that arise next week.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Economic Forum (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that the Global Irish Economic Forum is realising its full potential in terms of supporting employment growth in the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23794/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County and City Enterprise Boards Funding (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a report in tabular form outlining the funding for each county and city enterprise board in 2011, 2012 and 2013 relative to the population of that area; the detail of each stream of funding utilised by each CEB; and the number of enterprises in each CEB area who received financial assistance in each area. [28706/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the merit of allowing an extension of the JobsPlus scheme to allow for one parent family payment recipients to partake on the scheme; her further views on allowing successful JobsBridge participants the opportunity to avail of the JobsPlus scheme; her further views that such an arrangement would support job creation; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the qualifying criteria for inclusion on the JobsPlus scheme; if she will outline any future Department plans to integrate JobsBridge and jobsplus schemes to ensure that trained interns under the JobsBridge scheme can be employed under the terms of the JobsPlus scheme; her views that such a plan makes economic sense; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 97. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the terms of the jobsplus scheme to allow for persons on one parent family payments to be eligible for the inclusion on the scheme; her views that such persons who qualify for and successfully participate in and complete JobBridge schemes should be accommodated on the jobsplus scheme; if she will acknowledge that huge savings in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are being funded by the Health Service Executive to receive long term psychiatric care outside of the State; if he will provide a breakdown of the cost involved for the past three years; the nature of the specialist treatment abroad and if it is drug lead; if these centres have been inspected by the HSE prior to sending patients...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Debt (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken by the State-supported banks and other banks licensed in the State to deal with the level of small and medium enterprise arrears; his views that the delay in dealing with SME arrears is hurting the wider economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28666/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Debt (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: The question seeks a discussion with the Minister on the level of SME arrears on loans and what plans the Government has to deal with the issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Debt (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister. The Central Bank also published a report about SME debt recently which showed that 26% of SME loans by number and 41% by value were in arrears. This is in spite of the figures the Minister has just quoted to the effect that 90% of Bank of Ireland and 65% of AIB distressed SME loans have been resolved. The issue for the Central Bank is still hugely significant, in...