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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister for his response but I must say that I believe the Government needs to take emigration seriously and set targets for return. It must be about creating full-time employment and actively encouraging emigrants to return and central to this must be targets.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of meetings that he has had with banks to deal with the issue of small and medium enterprise lending. [42596/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: The SME sector is responsible for more than 78% of all jobs in the economy. We supported the Government when it introduced the micro-enterprise loan and credit guarantee schemes. These schemes were developed to supplement bank lending and not replace it. They are not performing and should be reviewed. Given that the cost of the credit for the microenterprise scheme exceeds the market rate,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister for his reply. Many businesses were told by banks to diversify their investments, including property. Many SMEs followed this advice. The Government moved with indecent speed to support major developers and bail out the banks. What is the plan to secure jobs in viable SMEs which are burdened by legacy loans?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Underemployment Data (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to tackle the issue of underemployment including supporting and promoting full time employment. [42588/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Market Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to tackle the increased casualisation of the labour market. [42589/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister for the overview of the work she has done. I asked a question with regard to the child and family agency which was not answered very clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Yes. I asked whether there will be a place for sectoral representation on the board such as from family resource centres. Will the Minister elaborate on this? Unlike Deputy Ó Caoláin I was lucky that one of my questions was accepted because it ties into the work of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to foster allowance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I am glad the Minister intends to engage with the State bodies and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on the issue. I have raised the issue many times because it is appalling and despicable that some local authorities consider fostering allowance to be reckonable income when calculating rent. It is done by only a few local authorities but it is just outrageous....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister.

Child Sex Offenders (Information And Monitoring) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Sinn Féin and I congratulate Deputy Naughten on introducing this Bill in order that we might debate this very important issue. I also commend the Deputy on an excellent explanatory memorandum which sets out clearly what he wants to achieve and how he hopes to go about achieving it. Sexual violence is probably the most pervasive crime in Irish society yet it remains under-reported,...

Child Sex Offenders (Information And Monitoring) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: We recognise the potentially grave harm that can be caused to children and others - particularly the victims and survivors of incest - by tabloid-style name and shame policies and, therefore, we are opposed to them. Sinn Féin acknowledges that most chid victims of abuse are abused by members of their families. In that context, measures such as sex offender registers and vetting in...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: It is disgraceful.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Assessments (15 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance the process for persons who over valued their homes for the purpose of the local property tax in order to submit the correct assessment for next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43318/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Interest Supplement Eligibility (15 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regards to mortgage interest supplement and the new legislation which was introduced in 2012 stating that in order to qualify for mortgage interest supplement that a person must be in negotiations with their banks for 12 months prior to applying, if this affects persons who were already in receipt of MIS prior to this legislation being...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (15 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 210 and 211 of 2 October 2013, in view of the fact that Cork County Council has stated that tenants are liable for the pipe repair as the estate was taken in charge prior to 2007, if he will make a grant available or instruct Cork County Council to carry out the works; and if he...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: There has been.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: That is what the Government is doing.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Not Labour Youth.