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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (19 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 215. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding administrative processes of the Workplace Relations Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11147/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (19 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 216. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she will tackle the severe competitiveness challenges identified by the National Competitiveness Council report, Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2016, and Ireland’s position as a high cost location for business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11148/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (19 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 217. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the projected number of extra jobs targeted in each nomenclature of units for territorial statistics 3 region by 2020, by year, in tabular form, as envisaged under the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11149/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (19 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 218. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the starting period from which the job targets projected up until 2020 will commence as envisaged under the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11153/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Examinership Arrangements (19 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 219. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action she has taken to protect jobs in a company (details supplied) since the appointment of an examiner to it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11154/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (24 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if students availing of the back to education allowance are permitted to work during the summer period when not in college; if, by doing so, they will lose their entitlement to the allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11260/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (24 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 424. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, he will reduce the €2.50 prescription charge for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11307/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Inspections (24 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a mechanism within his Department to request a second review following a farm inspection and subsequent reduction in payment which was upheld in the original review, before proceeding to the appeal process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11289/16]

Adjournment Debate: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (25 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: I thank Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this Adjournment matter and the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, for coming to the House to take it. I refer to the provision of speech and language therapy services in County Mayo, in particular Ballina. A number of parents have brought to my attention that there is a serious deficiency in the delivery of the service. I tabled a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (25 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11993/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (25 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 243. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the waiting times for child and adolescent mental health service in County Mayo; the future plans for the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11909/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Regulations (25 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 355. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will confirm that a sport activity and competition (details supplied) lie outside the remit of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005; if she will confirm that such events are not defined as workplaces in the context of the Act; if she will confirm that the investigation of injuries and fatalities in sport is outside...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax (26 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 104. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will change the motor tax system in certain circumstances (details supplied); if the rules in these circumstances could be viewed as being unfair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12443/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Allowances (26 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 165. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State in the Thirty-second Dáil who are eligible for annual funding under the Leaders' allowance scheme and the maximum amount that can be paid to each in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12264/16]

Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (31 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform how the Office of Government Procurement operates to ensure maximum participation by small and medium enterprises in public contracts; to set specific targets for the proportion of Government procurement to reach these enterprises; to support greater co-operation between groups of these enterprises in bidding for...

Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (31 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: I wish the Minister and Minister of State every success in their new roles. Government procurement costs €8.5 billion per annum, or €23 million per day, and should be used as an employment creation mechanism as well as getting value for money for the taxpayer. Increasingly, it has become the preserve of bigger companies and consortiums which are coming together to tender for...

Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (31 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: Could the Minister of State outline the sanctions for Government agencies that ignore Circular 10/14? In 2014, the Small Firms Association, SFA, made a submission to the Committee of Public Accounts that stated 82% of its members surveyed believed the emphasis in procurement was on price rather than on value for money. There is still a very strong perception among the SME community that...

Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (31 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to bring forward the review of the capital plan to ensure that critical unmet infrastructure needs are addressed, in particular the need to increase the overall share of gross domestic product represented by investment expenditure; if he is considering additional non-Exchequer sources of funding for capital investment; and if he will...

Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (31 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: The Minister is to commit an extra €4 billion to 2021 in the capital programme. Given the long lead-in time for many projects, as we all know, surely it would be appropriate to bring forward a review of the plan in the context of discussions under way in another part of Leinster House on the serious need for urgency in meeting housing commitments. With regard to the commitment in the...

Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (31 May 2016)

Dara Calleary: Let us not get carried away by the plan which has been described as lacking in ambition. In 2019 only half of what was spent in 2008 will have been spent. The roads budget, for instance, is purely for maintenance works. In the context of the commitments in the programme for Government and given the overall figure to which the Government has committed, would it not be appropriate and...