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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association (23 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: In context of the PSO model from Derry, how does that work? It was referred to in the presentation.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason an applicant for a local authority mortgage cannot use social welfare income as reckonable income for mortgage assessment, even in situations in which the payment may be a long term one such as in the case of a daughter or son caring for a parent or a parent caring for a child with additional needs; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply a list of available occupation therapists by county in tabular form; the number of occupational therapists currently unavailable due to leave; the number of occupational therapists on leave that have been replaced; the reason occupational therapists on leave are not being replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25771/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 481. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in County Mayo awaiting occupational therapy appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25772/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the avenues of complaint available for persons mistreated in a private hospital; the controls in place regarding standards of care in private hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25865/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Meetings (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the detail of his meetings and the venues for meetings with airport representatives since his appointment to Cabinet in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25302/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent announcement by the European Commission regarding state aid and regional airports; the implications of this decision for Ireland West Airport, Knock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25303/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (30 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: 579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the capital plan review with regard to regional airport funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25304/17]

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: Are you actually going to answer it?

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: You have about the rest of them.

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: I join in the tributes to the Taoiseach and his wife Fionnuala. Those of us who are honoured to be in the House are tough enough to take it but our families are not. The service the Taoiseach has given both to his party and the country has taken a toll on his family. We acknowledge that and thank his family for that. He made an announcement yesterday extending a strategic development zone...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: I welcome representatives from the Environmental Pillar. Unfortunately they are here on a day when it seems that President Trump is about to declare environmental war on the world by pulling out of the Paris Agreement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: It actually makes our discussion more relevant. I have a number of questions on the aggregates levy. At present there is a serious issue with pyrite around the country. It was confined to Dublin for some time but is beginning to emerge all over the country. Would the proposed levy assist in dealing with that and in ensuring that it does not happen again?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: Obviously the diesel equalisation policy will have the biggest impact on our agricultural sector, which is already facing enormous challenges as a result of Brexit. What would that equalisation cost the agricultural sector? What effect would it have on jobs in that sector?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: The representatives are benign on green diesel, even as an anti-smuggling measure. Is that correct?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: The rush towards diesel began less than ten years ago when changes were made to the car tax system to favour diesel cars. That was lobbied for by the witnesses' predecessors. Was that a mistake and does it need to be changed?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: Is the infrastructure in place to make the kinds of changes the witnesses envisage for electric cars? The main reason for the reluctance among the public to make the switch is that the charging infrastructure and everything that goes with it is not in place.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar (31 May 2017)

Dara Calleary: I was going to expose the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Data (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has compiled data from other European countries on the different ways public sector and civil servant pensions are administered, the amount they pay on average per employee and the rules they have for public pensions and in total; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26201/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions Data (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Calleary: I seek some information from the Minister on the background to pensions and the data his Department is using. I tabled this question in anticipation that we might have some sort of resolution to the current pay talks, so I would appreciate it if the Minister could give the House an update on the status of the talks and when he envisages they will be competed. I understand they will not be...