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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I understand two British companies were recruited - Saville Consulting for the verbal and numerical analysis tests and CEB for the situational judgment questionnaire. Are there not Irish companies which could have done this? My second question relates to the fact that it is a little bit like "phone a friend". I could be sitting in a room anywhere with my laptop and have a friend do the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Can the Minister refer to the lack of feedback from the company? It is unfair on a person who does an interview or fills in a questionnaire that there is no response or indication as to which areas they have done well in and which areas they have not. An interview should be a two-way conversation. It is one thing asking people who are desperate for work to give information but it is unfair...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Investment Plan (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: May I assume, given the link made between the proposed capital projects and the creation of 45,000 jobs, that contracts valued at more than €1 million will include a social clause, meaning the Government will seek to have people who are unemployed taken off the live register to work on them? From where does the figure of 45,000 jobs come? Will these jobs be in Ireland for Irish...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the recruitment process and competitions conducted by the Public Appointments Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33644/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: This question relates to the Public Appointments Service. Specifically, I propose to ask questions about a recent recruitment competition for assistant principal officers in the Department. My understanding is that a competition was held for the assistant principal officer grade and there was a change in the recruitment process. While change is not necessarily a bad thing, part of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Investment Plan (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the capital review will be published, given that it was announced in the spring statement that it would be published in June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33643/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Investment Plan (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I am deputising for Deputy McDonald, who is attending today's meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts. I will try to fill her shoes. Our first priority question, which asks when the capital plan will be published, has been overtaken somewhat by events. It is not surprising that Deputy McDonald tabled this question because it had been expected that the plan would be published in June,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Investment Plan (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I would certainly welcome many of the projects that are listed in the plan. I have worked out that over the six-year period covered by this plan, Ireland will continue to have one of the lowest levels of capital spending of any country in Europe. This overall figure includes public private partnerships. I would argue that such partnerships are a very inefficient way of doing business...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Investment Plan (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I still have not received an answer to my question about what the Government's plan is predicated on. A friend of mine from Sligo rang me the night the plan was published. He stated it was an awful pity that an election is not held every year because the economy seems to improve in the run-in to elections. In any case, it may be that he was being slightly cynical.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Contracts (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of supplies and services public contracts that have been awarded to micro-enterprises which collaborated on a public sector tender through a joint bidding or consortium formation, year-on-year over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33409/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration he has given to the inclusion of a social clause in capital public procurement projects to the value of €1 million or more. [33411/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration he has given to transposing the new European Union procurement directives into Irish Law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33412/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration he has given to reducing the size of public procurement tenders to make them accessible to micro-business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33413/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Haddington Road Agreement Implementation (1 Oct 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the outcome of the Landsdowne Road Agreement financially for those persons earning less than €65,000; the outcome at the conclusion of the Haddington Road Agreement financially in respect of those earning over €65,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33410/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Feedstuffs (30 Sep 2015)

Michael Colreavy: 99. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedures in place to deal with complaints from farmers regarding the nutritional value of animal feedstuffs purchased and whether his Department will initiate legal action in the event of breaches of the minimum nutritional value of such feedstuffs. [33463/15]

Social Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Some say the wheels of government always move very slowly. That is not always the case, however. For example, one need only think of the visit of a foreign dignitary or the outbreak of a disease which might put our livestock or agricultural economy at risk. Then there is an immediate plan of action, great co-ordination and pulling together of the resources of the State to deal with it. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an gCathaoirleach agus fáilte mhór a chur roimh Mr. Gorman. You are very welcome. I will be unintentionally rude as I have to leave the meeting soon. I wish Mr. Gorman the very best, in advance, in his role as chairperson of Inland Fisheries Ireland. When I was a youngster I used to go around the rivers and lakes of south Leitrim...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Chairman, if you would like to list it for the next meeting, I would be quite happy to discuss it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate (23 Sep 2015)

Michael Colreavy: Please do.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (22 Sep 2015)

Michael Colreavy: In a democracy, there should be dialogue between the policy decision makers and the people regarding the level of public services the population needs and wants and the extent to which the population is prepared to pay through taxation for those public services, including access to good education, access to safe warm homes, adequate income to raise a family and access to quality health care...