Results 7,321-7,340 of 14,797 for speaker:Dara Calleary
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: The Acting Chairman missed a question.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Deputy David Cullinane's question was a priority question.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: There was another question, Question No. 35.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: I have two questions. Does the Minister have plans for other disposals of State assets during the lifetime of the new Government? Second, has all of the money associated with Aer Lingus, BGE and various other assets sold off, including the national lottery, been drawn down from the various purchasers?
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Currently.
- Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Yes.
- Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: That is fine. Will the Minister confirm that the template used for the fire service was used by the Teachers' Union of Ireland in negotiations? Will he reaffirm that only trade unions that have signed up to the Lansdowne Road agreement and their members will benefit if a similar template were used for other professions? Could this template, with its changes in allowances and so forth, be...
- Other Questions: Programme for Government (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Can the Minister provide a date for when the costings for the various proposals within this large document will be published? Surely every Minister, now they are three weeks in office, has had a chance to establish the position. The only specifics in this document relate to housing. The document proposes year one actions and ongoing action but there is no consistency in it at all. It has...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: In regard to the public service pay commission, to which the Government agreed as part of Fianna Fáil facilitation, the Minister mentioned he will have discussions with the parties involved in the Lansdowne Road agreement. Will the Minister provide a timeline in regard to those discussions and give us some indication of when he will come back with proposals? The Minister also spoke...
- Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: I asked about the timeline in regard to the new commission. The Minister said earlier he was having discussions with the various signatories of the Lansdowne Road agreement.
- Other Questions: Lobbying Data (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: There is an obligation to review the Act this year and I want to give an idea of some of the inconsistencies within the Act. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, had meetings with the banks last year on variable rate mortgages. Two of the banks with which he met declared them as part of their lobbying returns but two others did not. Even at that level, there seems to be...
- Other Questions: Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: When does the Minister expect the changes to take effect? During the period of the last Government, only 20% of some 1,200 State board vacancies were filled through this public process. What target does he have for the new process?
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Give us a flavour.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: One gets used to it after five years.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: We spent five years learning-----
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: It is more like Dougal.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: They wanted to abolish the Seanad.
- Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: No, Deputy Daly may speak.
- Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: Guím gach rath ar an mbeirt Aire Stáit nua. Tá jab an-tábhachtach le déanamh ag an mbeirt acu. Guím gach beannacht orthu. When one lives in a town that has a river running through it, the sound of the search and recovery chopper coming over the town brings fear into every house. The closer one lives to the river, the more clearly one can see the Air Corps...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (31 May 2016)
Dara Calleary: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is giving consideration to an application by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo under the emergency funding scheme; if the application will processed in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13489/16]