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Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I would not like to see him winding up.

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: While I thank the Minister for his attendance, I wish to express a concern. These are very substantial amendments with which I am comfortable only because I am a former spokesperson on justice. Members only received them at 5 p.m. on Tuesday evening and both Deputy Tóibín and I were in the Chamber, together with the Minister, for most of the day yesterday. Consequently, our...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: Can I get clarification first?

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I support amendment No. 23. In recent times there has been a number of high profile cases, in one of which the gentleman came to committee. It is a lacuna in the law that somebody taking an action against somebody who holds his or her permit can be left without any recompense to relief and without any basic costs to live, never mind the cost of taking the court order. If we are to somewhat...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Fifth Stage (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Sean Sherlock, and the officials for the assistance in passing this Bill. I also thank the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, MRCI, and the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, Nasc, for their assistance and input into the Bill. It is an important Bill. We have to keep the system under review....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Remit (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 15. To ask the Minister for Finance the manner in which he believes a state enterprise bank can help boost employment in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23791/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Remit (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 18. To ask the Minister for Finance the role he envisages for the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; the reason it will not have a banking licence; his views that this will inhibit its ability to provide credit in the marketplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28545/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish financial projections in advance of budget 2015 outlining the expected deficit next year under a range of different adjustment levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28544/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (3 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 159. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding agri-environment option scheme and single farm payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo. [28864/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (8 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: 678. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Mayo [29022/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (8 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: Has there been feedback from IDA Ireland and similar bodies or from fund managers and so on regarding the potential impact of this proposal on inward investment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (8 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: Was the organisation asked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Job Creation and Innovation: Startup Ireland (8 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: That was a superb presentation. It is a wake-up call as we have a habit of believing our own publicity about everything being so great. There were some good indications of what we have to offer. Has there been any engagement with IDA Ireland around its strategy? Why are we not getting that side of the investment when we are getting so much other investment? Has there been any interaction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Job Creation and Innovation: Startup Ireland (8 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: Mr. Aherne touched on something. It is not just in our system; in Ireland we celebrate failure. We like to see something not happening, for example, with the Kilkenny or Dublin teams. How does one change that culture, whereby one would says to an entrepreneur, "If it does not happen, it does not happen; just get up and do it again"? Politics cannot do this. It is in every aspect of our lives.

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: The difficulty for the Minister of State and his colleagues is-----

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: -----that they have all come to the Chamber with their scripts and given assurances that the Tánaiste stated this would not happen. I am willing to accept her at her word, but her currency is not good. She told us that the household benefits package, as she depleted it budget after budget, would remain in place. The telephone-----

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I am framing my contribution in the context of the Minister of State's defence, which is that the Tánaiste has stated it will be all right on the night.

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: The household benefits package has been depleted so much that there is no longer a telephone allowance. That was not supposed to happen. The allowance does not just cover telephones, but also, as Deputy Troy mentioned, panic alarms. It provides senior citizens security at night. That pendant is the one item they speak about. The Government was elected to office in full knowledge of how...

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: -----made commitments that, in fairness, were adapted into a programme for Government that reflected the situation. Under the programme, however, prescription charges were to be abolished. Instead, they have been increased substantially. This currency means that we cannot accept the assurances. We have been discussing the medical card situation for 18 months. We have been advising and...

Free Travel Pass: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: I have no doubt that the Minister of State made representations to the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and the Taoiseach-----