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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (7 Nov 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1111. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a charity (details supplied) in 2016; if her attention has been drawn to concerns relating to organisations funded by her Department; if so, the action she has taken; if her Department has issued...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (7 Nov 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1151. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps he has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a charity (details supplied) in 2016; if his attention has been drawn to concerns over organisations funded by his Department; if so, the action he has taken; if his Department has issued new...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (7 Nov 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a new rule has been issued which requires persons designated by pensioners to collect pensions from post offices to produce a public services card as identification; the basis for this requirement; the reason personal data from the card is entered into An Post computers; the use to which the data is put; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (7 Nov 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a charity (details supplied) in 2016; if her attention has been drawn to concerns regarding organisations funded by her Department; if so, the action she has taken; if her Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (7 Nov 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the time that persons aged 62 years and over can spend on community employment schemes, in view of the fact that such persons will exit the scheme short of the old age pension age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47013/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (7 Nov 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a charity (details supplied) in 2016; if his attention has been drawn to concerns in relation to organisations funded by his Department; if so, the action he has taken; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (7 Nov 2017)

Dara Calleary: 1380. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he has taken to ensure that grant aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a charity (details supplied) in 2016; if his attention has been drawn to concerns in relation to organisations funded by his department; if so, the action he has taken; if his department has issued new...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland (26 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: 65. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland supported jobs in County Mayo; the number in the Ballina area in each of the years 2014 to 2016, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45563/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: That is an enormously frustrating response as it is the same response we have been getting for two years now. One, therefore, gets the impression from the response that the forum established by the former Minister, Deputy Howlin, has not achieved anything. Deputies have mentioned supervisors who have since retired. The first person to raise this issue with me has passed away - I am sure...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Acting Chairman and the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for giving us permission to raise this matter. It is a cross-party group and one which might not come together on many other subjects. It is appropriate that the Minister for Education and Skills is taking the matter because he will have good knowledge of it also. It is about valuing the work of community employment schemes,...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: I would like to share time with Deputy MacSharry.

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: As I have already spoken extensively on the budget, I propose to focus on some of the issues that arise in the context of the Finance Bill 2017. I will begin by speaking about the process itself. Many of the contents of this Bill, which was published last Thursday, were signalled in advance. The Bill is being discussed generally on Second Stage before it is the subject of a line-by-line...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: Last Friday, I spent an hour with approximately 30 sixth class pupils in my local school who had spent the week doing a project on sustainable development and climate change. As I listened to Deputies in this Chamber this morning, I wished they were put through the wringer in the same way that I was interrogated last Friday about what we are not doing on climate change. Christine Lagarde of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (25 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to deal with pay equalisation in view of the rejection of the Public Service Stability Agreement 2018-2020 by certain individual trade unions; his views on whether this issue will escalate; his further plans to consult with the unions that rejected the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40550/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Bodies Data (24 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff allocated to the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the budget in each of the years 2011 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45012/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Expenditure (24 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: 214. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate additional resources to the early intervention occupational therapy services in the HSE west area; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current waiting list for early intervention services currently runs to 21 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (24 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: 275. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to assist families with IVF; if those plans will be brought forward to 2018; if not, the plans in place for those that will need IVF assistance in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44992/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: I acknowledge the ongoing work of the ESB, Irish Water and local authorities to remedy the damage caused by Storm Ophelia. Will the Minister give an update on power and water supplies around the country? It seems we are preparing for another significant weather event this weekend that will involve much more rain than we had last Monday. There are many communities across the island...

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister will know that, as we speak, the finance committee is hearing from the Central Bank on the issues relating to tracker mortgages. Everybody will agree that the way the banks have treated those on tracker mortgages is abominable, to say the least. Despite the Taoiseach's sudden interest in this issue, it did not just happen today or yesterday but has happened for many, many...

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister said the Government would have no truck with this behaviour but we have known about it since 2015 and banks have dragged their feet and have dragged people's lives through the muck since that time. The Minister has been in Cabinet since 2011 so if the legislation was defective and weak he has had six and a half years to fix it, but he has not. There seems to be no plan to do...