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Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Charges Review (26 Jun 2013)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy will be aware that under Irish law there is a distinct separation of function between the valuation of rateable property and the setting and collection of commercial rates. The valuation of commercial properties for rating purposes is the responsibility of the Valuation Office. The rate payable by a ratepayer in any calendar year is a product of that valuation multiplied by the...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Charges Review (26 Jun 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I should have apologised on behalf of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, who is unavailable as he is in the Seanad taking Committee Stage of a Bill. His Minister of State is away.

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Charges Review (26 Jun 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I will not even reply to that. I understand where Deputy Deasy is coming from. As a public representative, I speak to people daily who fear the closure of their businesses. It is something of which we must take cognisance when town councils are abolished and the time comes to set rates. The Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill is on Committee Stage in the Seanad. I hope the Minister will...

Topical Issue Debate: Overseas Missions (26 Jun 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I agree with the Deputy's comments on our peacekeeping operations abroad. The reply I gave was explanatory and the Deputy welcomed it. I assure him that when the Green Paper is published it will initiate a broad public consultative process. We hope all Members of the House and the general public will get involved in that process. I can also assure the Deputy that nobody will be driving...

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (26 Jun 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I apologise on behalf of the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, who is unable to be here this afternoon. I thank Deputy Breen for raising this important issue. The Labour Court recommended in July 2008 that an agreed pension scheme be introduced for CE scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors, and that such a scheme be adequately funded by FÁS, which was then...

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (26 Jun 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I compliment the people on CE schemes and the supervisors on their work. There are currently 1,373 supervisors on 1,089 CE schemes across the country. This year, there are 25,000 involved, including supervisors, assistant supervisors and those on placements. There have been 25,300 places available. This includes an additional 2,000 places allocated by the Government in the budget for this...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Paul Kehoe: They know where the safes are.

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: First Stage (27 Jun 2013)

Paul Kehoe: No.

Business of Dáil: Motion (1 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the order of the Dáil of 27 June 2013, the Dáil shall sit later than 7 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn not later than 9 p.m.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (2 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 9 March 2011, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, or in the Order of the Dáil of 18 June 2013, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Education and Skills, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Competitiveness (2 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: The following table provides details on GVA at basic prices for the years 2006-2012. To assist the Deputy the CSO has included data on Northern Ireland and the UK using data from Eurostat and the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the UK. GVA at basic prices Year Northern Ireland (£ millions) Northern Ireland (€ millions) converted to Euros United Kingdom (€...

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy changed membership of a fair few committees in his time.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy Martin's party tore up its programme.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: Imagine what I said about the Deputy.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy is trying to save his own skin.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: Deploring?

Membership of Committee: Motion (3 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That Deputies Peter Mathews and Billy Timmins be discharged from the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and that Deputies Regina Doherty and Paschal Donohoe be appointed in substitution for them.

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: The Opposition signed off on this.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: Motion (9 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That the Order of the Dáil of 4th July, 2013, referring the Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 Seanad to the Select Sub-committee on Health be discharged and that the Bill be considered in a committee of the whole Dáil on Wednesday, 10th July, 2013.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (9 Jul 2013)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 9th March, 2011, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister for Justice and...