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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Properties (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State might be getting a bit confused. Only one Member of this House has a specific interest in Garda stations at the moment, and that is the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross. The State has been paying rent since January on the Miesian Plaza on Lower Baggot Street. A 25-year lease was agreed but staff are not due to move in until the middle of the year...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Properties (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: I am looking for a sense of what the plan is. Are there areas in the State where empty properties are leased to the State, including to State agencies? Is there a need for property on the part of State agencies in those areas? What work is being done in the Department to root out a waste of money such as this and what is being done to regularise the situation?

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (2 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: 171. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the action plan for rural development; the projects that will be eligible for the scheme; if structural refurbishment of existing business premises such as bed and breakfasts will be included in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11117/17]

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: I too compliment Deputy Michael McGrath on raising not only this issue, but insurance generally over a long period of months. It is a matter of enormous frustration, as I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, is picking up, that insurance costs are rocketing. People are shocked when they go to renew their insurance, yet all they see from this House is debates and reports being...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: Get the bus.

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister, Deputy Ross, is persistent? That is a bit of an anomaly.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Over the past number of years there have been a number of incidents, Clerys being one, and now there is Tesco. There are issues with Bus Éireann, Hastings Garage and elsewhere where workers and their rights are being trampled on and they are being treated as a commodity, even though they are the foundation of every business. Deputy Brendan Ryan asked a number of questions and called on...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: In concluding the contributions, it is notable that the House is united on this issue. The workers who are being directly affected are the foundation of Tesco's business in Ireland. As Deputy Broughan said, they are the people who worked in Quinnsworth, the company that Tesco swooped in and bought many years ago. The attempts by management to divide the pre-1996 and post-1996 workers...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: This morning we have heard of the sad passing of former Deputy Peter Mathews. On behalf of Fianna Fáil, I extend our deepest sympathies to his wife Susan and his family. This committee and the notion of increased oversight of the budget and national accounts were one of his pet projects that he enthusiastically pursued at all times. Were he a member of this Dáil he would most...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the delegates. To continue Deputy David Cullinane's line of questioning, we are looking at threats to the economy. Whether it be GDP, GNP, GNI or GNI*, one of the biggest blockages being spoken about by delegates to the committee is capital expenditure and our inability to spend money on creaky infrastructure, be it roads, public transport, health services or anything else. There...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: What is best for the country is that we address our infrastructural bottlenecks, create employment and make long-term investment but not be constrained from doing that by rules, which are needed but which are really focused on short-term, day-to-day expenditure. However, that is another day's debate. Deputy Cullinane mentioned that we took a huge international hit with the phrase...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Professor Lane mentioned a spike. There also was a major spike in our corporate tax receipts in 2015. Is there a link between the unreliability of these figures and corporate tax? What consequence would that have for-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: Can I use the word "distorted"?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: I have one other question for Mr. Dalton. He mentioned the Statistics Act which is the CSO's guiding body. It struck me that one of its innovations is an information office and a press office. Does Mr. Dalton see any need for changes in the Statistics Act to reflect the different ways of information, the different ways of doing figures now compared to when that Act was introduced?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: On that issue of co-ordinated corporate effort, is it necessarily in the interests of states or Government-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: -----to drill down through the spin of these figures and see where we really are at?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Staff (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 117. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the current and potential future delays in probate registration in County Mayo as a result of the non-replacement of the recently retired probate officer; the plans of the Courts Service for this position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Commercial Property (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance if recourse is available to a company which made an unsuccessful bid to a receiver on behalf of a bank for a distressed commercial property which was higher than that of the accepted bid; if this kind of practice is encouraged by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10219/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 495. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if grant assistance is available for the restoration of a listed and protected building (detail supplied) in County Mayo; the detail of the application process for grant assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9827/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (28 Feb 2017)

Dara Calleary: 554. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available in County Mayo for young adults with mental health challenges that are deemed to be in need of 24-hour care; if there are full-time residential facilities available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9747/17]