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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (11 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: Will the EU public consultations go ahead?

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: The Bill will build strong new structures to continue a long tradition of local community centre delivery of education and training. The new structures will be built on a remarkable foundation, that is, Ireland's proud tradition of vocational education. The new structures which the Minister is proposing are necessary. These measures will ensure the structures are fit for purpose. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Minimising Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (17 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: Since the committees were reconfigured I am a member of the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and am no longer a member of this committee. I wished to be present for this vitally important debate and contribute some ideas. The community employment scheme has been one of the most significant interventions in social policy in the past 30 to 40 years. It has been able to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Minimising Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (17 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: - - - - - and a whole range of services as well as the individual advancement of the participant. We are in a position to stake stock and we should do that before the scheme is irretrievably damaged. I welcome the campaign by SIPTU on community employment schemes. In its vision, community employment is a social policy intervention, which it wanted restored. That was its role and it can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Minimising Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (17 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: I sent a letter to the Minister. I will supply the name.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Minimising Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (17 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: I do not know why the ESRI is being listened to above these two academics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Minimising Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (17 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: I wish to raise the issue of the status of the social economy and the lack of any strategic thinking about how dynamic a good social economy could be. We have had people over here from Scotland speaking about the social economy there and the huge contribution it was making to employment and personal development in that country. I do not want a direct answer but I would like some strategic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Community Employment Scheme: Discussion with SIPTU (17 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: I welcome the delegation and their ongoing campaign. I hope they will continue the campaign. It is invaluable for public representatives. Has SIPTU done any assessment on the quality of the education and training elements of CE? I would have been sceptical about them. How was the quantity and quality of the education and training elements measured? Does Mr. O'Connor have a view on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (23 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the proposed sewerage schemes in respect of the Glenties and Dungloe areas of County Donegal. [46265/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (23 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the proposed sewerage schemes in respect of the Glenties and Dungloe areas of County Donegal. [46265/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (23 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the proposed sewerage schemes in respect of the Glenties and Dungloe areas of County Donegal. [46265/12]

Prospects for Irish Economy: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: When the Government took over, Ireland was a sinking ship. The then Taoiseach was lampooned internationally, portrayed as a drunk at the wheel. Nobody would lend us money, apart from the troika which had been called in under cover of darkness by the Fianna Fáil Government. The Government has gone to great lengths to restore and rebuild confidence in our nation, set the ship of State...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (25 Oct 2012)

Michael Conaghan: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 496 of 19 July 2011, and follow up letter from the Health Service Executive on 29 July 2011 regarding the number of inspections, in tabular, that have been undertaken under the national tobacco control inspection programme in 2011 and to date in 2012 to ascertain compliance with smoke-free workplace legislation, sales to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (6 Nov 2012)

Michael Conaghan: To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Walsh report on the practice of symphysiotomy here to be completed; when this report will be published; and the action he proposes to take following on from the report. [48179/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received: P00036/12 and P00043/12 (7 Nov 2012)

Michael Conaghan: So justice has not been done? The person does not qualify as the scheme stands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received: P00036/12 and P00043/12 (7 Nov 2012)

Michael Conaghan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received: P00036/12 and P00043/12 (7 Nov 2012)

Michael Conaghan: We considered a number of petitions at the previous meeting and came to various conclusions. Is there a steady flow of petitions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received: P00036/12 and P00043/12 (7 Nov 2012)

Michael Conaghan: I think we looked at ten.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga maidir le Comórtais Inmheánacha sa Roinn Coimirce Sóisialaí: Mionphlé (7 Nov 2012)

Michael Conaghan: Am I right in thinking Mr. Patterson's interpretation is that Irish is but one among other criteria and is given due weight but that it has no absolute right over other criteria in terms of the profile of the job, and that the commissioner should see it in that practical context, as part of custom and practice established over a very long time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Tuarascáil an Choimisinéara Teanga maidir le Comórtais Inmheánacha sa Roinn Coimirce Sóisialaí: Mionphlé (7 Nov 2012)

Michael Conaghan: How much Irish is required?

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