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Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State has just stated: "The over-riding priority for the State in this area is to ensure pensioners and members of pension schemes are protected and the future viability and sustainability of their schemes is ensured and made safer." We all share that objective but the Government keeps long-fingering it, which is no comfort to those pensioners in schemes where the management...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (7 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the use of the commonly agreed methodology in fiscal planning for budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5444/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (7 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 297. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the first-year cost in 2017 and the full-year cost in 2018 of measures announced in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5445/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: CLÁR Programme (7 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 363. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the eligibility of a sports club for CLÁR programme funding; the application process and criteria used to adjudicate applications; if clubs can use the programme to fund capital projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to change the existing planning laws which restrict planning permission in rural areas to couples and persons with direct links to the specific area in which planning is being sought; his views on whether such a policy is counter productive in view of the fact that there is little or no housing available...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (14 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 475. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card form in respect of a person (details supplied). [7161/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: I could say something about uncertain times but I will not. I would like to raise a couple of points on the report, starting with Brexit which is possibly the most immediate threat to competitiveness. Does Professor Clinch think that we are doing enough first as a country, by which I mean the Government, but second in terms of business and unions, in facing up to how big a challenge it is?...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Reference was made to the capital development plan and also the national planning framework, and its review. The council's report had a lot to say about capital investment and Professor Clinch also remarked that on the value of pre-crash capital investment towards assisting the recovery, our ability to repeat that particular investment is restrained because of fiscal rules. It is very...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: I want to be clear that I do not see it as a competition. It is important that we have a strong capital city but it is not good that we have such an imbalance. Other capital cities do not represent that much of their nation's economy. It is very important that we have a strong Dublin economically, as opposed to anywhere else.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council (14 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: He also points later in remarks to the difficulty of governance and of being Members of the Oireachtas.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Deputy Doherty would know about that.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: I wonder whether the Minister, Deputy Coveney, would do that for the other Minister, Deputy Varadkar?

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: What will the Minister leave for Leo?

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Who?

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: I note that the terms of reference for the Charleton inquiry have been published and that they will be subject to debate later in the afternoon. Subsequent to events last night and based on the line-up of Ministers in front of us, are we looking at an audition here this morning? I draw the attention of the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Richard Bruton, to a commitment the...

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: If, to quote the Minister, "the Minister for Finance is completely cut off", why did the latter meet Cerberus the day before the deal on Project Eagle went through? Why did he say in the House only a few weeks ago that, in his view, there did not seem to be adequate grounds for a commission? That does not suggest to me that the Minister is "completely cut off". The question is one of...

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Sinn Féin wrote the play book.

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: A new emphasis on fairness.

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: There was a report by Daniel McConnell in yesterday's Irish Examiner which stated that Revenue was scouting for locations along the Border to re-establish customs posts. That would suggest the Government is throwing in the towel in respect of a hard Border. Can the Minister deny the report? The Minister will be familiar with minimum notice provisions in the Employment Act. Does he have any...

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Is Revenue looking?