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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017) Dara Calleary: The Public Appointments Service manages recruitment to State boards.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017) Dara Calleary: How many applications for positions on State boards have been received this year? Has the number of applications increased over the years? Is any specific area particularly affected by the demographic curve mentioned by the Minister? Will the health and education sectors, for example, be affected more than other sectors? Are specific plans in place for such sectors? Will the Minister...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017) Dara Calleary: We can discuss it in January. I am very conscious of our other commitments.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Expenditure (30 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of restoring pensions in full for retired public sector workers by 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51357/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (30 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of pay equalisation for new entrants in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51360/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Stability Agreement (30 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of the public service stability agreement; the cost each year; the impact on the fiscal space in each year covered by the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51362/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (30 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of restoring section 39 grants to pre-2008 levels in order to account for pay restoration in section 39 health organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51358/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Funding (30 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the savings from cutting the grants to section 39 organisations since 2008; the amount by which these grants have been restored; the estimated cost of restoring them; the cost of fully restoring them to pre-2008 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51359/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (30 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of restoring nursing and midwifery allowances by July 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51361/17]
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: I will take ten minutes and Deputies Cahill and Lawless will each have five minutes. Having sat on the other side of the House for the introduction of much of the FEMPI legislation, it is one of those Bills one tends to remember where one was sitting when we introduced it because it brought huge pain to many families which, obviously, we did not want to do but we were left in no position...
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Policy (28 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: 292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are grants for housing relocation for persons from Gaeltacht areas living away and returning home to build a family home. [49854/17]
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: What about Charlie?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (22 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: 140. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a speech and language appointment; the reason that most recent appointments have been cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49491/17]
- Rural Crime: Motion (21 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Jim O'Callaghan. We need boots on the ground. The extra allocation of gardaí is welcome. In Mayo, we need to take account of the presence of the international airport and to allow extra gardaí to be stationed there. We need to upgrade Swinford Garda station to a 24-hour facility. It is in the middle of the county in east Mayo where there is no 24-hour station. ...
- Topical Issue Debate: Fodder Crisis (21 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: The Minister's response was incredibly disappointing. There was no acknowledgement of the urgency of the situation and of the impending damage to agricultural stock and the health of farmers. The Minister says that there is fodder in the country. If there is, and I would agree with Deputy Cahill when he says that there is not, people are being charged enormous prices at the moment. They...
- Topical Issue Debate: Fodder Crisis (21 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this Topical Issue. Met Éireann figures for this year indicate fewer dry days between July and October than there have been in a number of previous years. The top ten Met Éireann stations for rainfall are all along the west coast and one of the highest was in Newport in my county of Mayo. Land is sodden and cattle have been housed long...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Engagement with AILG and LAMA (21 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: I thank the delegation for coming in. I had thought the Chairman and I were the only people who had concerns about this legislation because every time we engaged with the Department, we were told there was no feedback from elected councillors on it. Mr. McEntire said there was no formal consultation but has any of the organisations received any correspondence or any invitation from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Engagement with AILG and LAMA (21 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: Did the association respond to that email? Did it seek a meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Engagement with AILG and LAMA (21 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: The suggestion from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is that many of the provisions included in the Bill already apply to local authority members and do not apply to Oireachtas Members. It argues that the purpose of the Bill is to tidy up matters, but the AILG clearly begs to differ. Does the Bill have the potential to frighten people away from running for local office?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Engagement with AILG and LAMA (21 Nov 2017)
Dara Calleary: On point 5, what is the basis for wanting to extend the timeframe for producing a tax clearance certificate? If a person's tax affairs are in order, surely they will also be in order within either six or 12 months? Is this proposal causing practical difficulties? Is the purpose of the request for an extension to give people time to get their tax affairs in order when they should be in...