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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (8 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: 122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria for a Norwegian citizen to attain a PPS number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39297/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (8 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [39253/16]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: I have a question for the Minister of State. My colleague, Deputy Jim O'Callaghan, raised the notion on Second Stage that this may be the last such revision and that the Minister of State was to reflect on the matter. Is revision going to be an ongoing process? When will the next revision of legislation take place?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: How long will the pause last?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State can send it to me.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: Good.

Flood Prevention Measures: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Eugene Murphy for giving us the chance once again to discuss flooding. I am always reluctant to fight with Deputy Róisín Shortall and do not want to do so. but it is only fair to point out that during our time in government, the CFRAM process was initiated. It now forms the basis of much of the investment being made. Schemes were started and completed in Clonmel,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (13 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an application for naturalisation has been returned to a person (details supplied). [39399/16]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: I thank the delegation and I wish Professor McHale well. I would like to explore the council's proposals for capital spending. The flexibilities suggested may not be flexibilities judging by Professor McHale's exchange with Deputy Doherty. The council proposes a new limit for such spending. Capital spending is becoming a major constraint on the growth of the economy and the current...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: The expenditure ceilings and so on would remain the same but this would be a separate heading, as it were.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: The authorisation and the transition in the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, coincides with the transition in the US. There is a tradition for US presidents to leave a note on the desk of their successor with some worldly advice. Will Professor McHale be leaving a note and what will be in it?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: Dr. Conefrey instanced the health budget and the way we could squeeze for expenditure efficiencies. As he said what I was thinking does he not think we have tried to do that. His health efficiencies are somebody else's essential service. I could find efficiencies in academia that would be holy grails to academics. That may capture the constraints we have as public representatives in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: You can take the man out of lecturing-----

Appropriation Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister. We will be supporting the Bill. There is not exactly a rapt Dáil Chamber here, which is extraordinary given that we are approving the expenditure of so much money. It is important to reflect that this Bill is the end of a process in terms of the scrutiny of the Supplementary Estimates by committees in recent weeks, and the important consideration that was given...

Appropriation Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: I hope the Minister continues to take my advice.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: They are after spending five years together in the Cabinet. Surely the Minister has Deputy's Howlin's phone number.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (16 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: 7. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which she will fund the Labour Court recommendations (details supplied) made since budget day; if she will revise the estimates based on that decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36754/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Appointments to State Boards (16 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the gender balances on each of the State boards under her remit. [40719/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Appointments to State Boards (16 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance the gender balances on each of the State boards under his remit. [40726/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (16 Dec 2016)

Dara Calleary: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the gender balances on each of the State boards under his remit. [40725/16]