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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of training places that are available nationally under the Young Farmers Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12227/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Plan (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available to farmers who wish to construct road underpasses to assist in expanding their dairy herds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12228/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the scheme to support national organisations; his plans for the scheme; the reason he has not acted on the appeal reviews submitted to him by Pobal in October 2014; if he will extend the bridging period to December 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12223/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding has been approved and sanctioned for a project (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12224/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Scientific Research (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his policy on capturing the long-term benefits of scientific research, following an open letter by over 900 scientists (details supplied); his strategy for the funding of applied research and basic research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12182/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Scientific Research (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: Over 900 of the country's leading scientists published a very damning letter in The Irish Timeslast week about current Government research policy. They expressed concerns about the commercial focus and highlighted the need to change the balance between basic and applied research. I notice that there has been no response to the letter from the Government. I also notice that submissions are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Scientific Research (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: When over 900 of the leading researchers in the world combine and publish a letter such as this, it should surely ring alarm bells. A number of issues arise. We have supported the Minister in the past in his attempts to focus research expenditure on job-related issues but not at the cost of long-term research. For example, in the 14 areas mentioned issues to do with neuroscience are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Scientific Research (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: If it is so great, how come 900 people came together to write the letter? According to Professor Kevin Mitchell of the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity College Dublin, if we want to have a knowledge economy, we have to invest in knowledge. The letter indicates that the people concerned are becoming "more and more dismayed" by the change in policy, which shifted all of the funding...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Scientific Research (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: The entire infrastructure was put in place during our time in government.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: The Government parties are good at it themselves.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Disputes (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action being taken to address the industrial unrest at Ireland’s largest indigenous retailer; the Government policy on job security for those on zero hours contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12183/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Disputes (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: A week from today, the country's largest indigenous retailer, Dunnes Stores, will be the subject of a strike owing to the frustration of its workers. I had the opportunity last Tuesday to meet some of them to discuss a range of issues relating to the current collective agreement. The company will not engage with the Labour Court. What work is the Government doing? Is anything going on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Disputes (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State. I acknowledge we do not have powers of compellability but we have moral powers. The company has benefited from the security of a Labour Court agreement in carrying out its business since 1996 and it has engaged on six occasions with the court on the agreement over the past 19 years. It is particularly disgraceful, therefore, that it has chosen to ignore it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Disputes (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: I wish Dunnes Stores would turn up the volume and listen to the workers. A total of 70% of Dunnes Stores employees are women and 76% of workers are on flexible contracts. Many supermarkets have reached agreement with trade unions on the matter, but Dunnes Stores seem to be unwilling to do so. We have less than a week to go. From listening to the workers the other day it appears there is a...

Other Questions: Research Funding (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: I asked the Minister earlier to outline the consultation process and who had been invited to participate, but he did not do so. I also think it is significant that the Minister for State, Deputy Damien English, is not here to take this question because he is also attached to the Department of Education and Skills. The fact that the Minister took this question might be proof of what the 900...

Other Questions: Research Funding (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: Who is involved in it?

Other Questions: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12094/15]

Other Questions: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: Will the Minister update the House on the number of staff that are being attached and the division within that staff between the competition side and the consumer protection side of things? There is no doubt that the work on insurance this week was excellent. What will be the follow-up to that work? Who requested more time in respect of the groceries order issue? It is not as if it was...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation under the Action Plan for Jobs, the concrete measures that will be taken to improve the supports for self-employed persons and entrepreneurs following budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12092/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 119. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the details of a jobs announcement (details supplied); the timing of the job creation; the interactions that have been had between any State enterprise agency and the promoter; if his attention has been drawn to these interactions and to the announcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12423/15]