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Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann Services (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister is worse than Donald Trump.

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann Services (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: The Minister met the chair of Bus Éireann last week who briefed him on the report. Surely, as the representative of the main shareholder, the Minister should have asked for a copy of the report so that he could study its analysis and ask his officials to brief him on it independently of the briefing from the chair of the company being reported on. On the assertion of the Taoiseach...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann Services (19 Jan 2017)

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

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann Services (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for giving us time to raise this matter. I thank the Minister, Deputy Ross, for coming to the House to debate the extraordinary and completely disgraceful situation in Bus Éireann. Proposals regarding the terms and conditions of employees are being leaked to the media before they are released to the employees in question. The serious financial...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann Services (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: Yes, I will give way to him in a moment. We need the Minister to step up to the mark, take account of what is going on in Bus Éireann and take ownership of the issue as the representative of the Government, which is the main shareholder.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current public sector pension contribution levels for both employee and employers here and in the UK, Northern Ireland, Germany and France; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2461/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 175. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current age of first payment to public service pensioners here and in the UK, Northern Ireland, Germany and France; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2462/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 176. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current level of lump sums paid to public service pensioners here and in the UK, Northern Ireland, Germany and France; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2463/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 177. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current tax benefits provided for public sector contributions here and in the UK, Northern Ireland, Germany and France; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2464/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (19 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the minimum years of service required for full public sector pension here and in Northern Ireland, Germany and France; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2465/17]

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I commend my party colleagues, Deputies Charlie McConalogue, Jackie Cahill and Margaret Murphy O'Mahony for pursuing this issue since last September. I will be brief because much of the argument has already been made. We gathered before Christmas at the launch of a report on the potential of Irish whiskey tourism. The launch was a celebration of the growth in the number of small...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I apologise in advance for having to leave early as I have another commitment at 5 p.m. I will start where the Minister finished on the issue of public service pay. He made an announcement this morning of €120 million of extra expenditure and immediately prior to Christmas, there was €50 million expenditure for the Garda deal. There...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Appointments to State Boards (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 94. To ask the Taoiseach the gender balances on each of the State boards under his remit. [40976/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 100. To ask the Taoiseach the number and membership of each Cabinet committee; and the number of occasions each committee has met since the formation of the Government. [41258/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Projects (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline all funding announcements made by her or by her Department for projects in County Mayo since January 2015, in tabular form; the details of each project; the status of the project at 31 December 2016; the amount of funding drawn down at 31 December 2016; and the reason for the delay in the project or funding draw down. [1063/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline all funding announcements made by him or by his Department for projects in County Mayo since January 2015, in tabular form; the details of each project; the status of the project at 31 December 2016; the amount of funding drawn down at 31 December 2016; and the reason for the delay in the project or funding draw down. [1059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form all funding announcements made by him or by his Department for projects in County Mayo since January 2015; the details of each project; the status of the project at 31 December 2016; the amount of funding drawn down at 31 December 2016; and the reason for the delay in the project or funding draw down. [1057/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Agencies Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will outline all funding announcements made by him or by his Department for projects in County Mayo since January 2015, in tabular form; the details of each project; the status of the project at 31 December 2016; the amount of funding drawn down at 31 December 2016; and the reason for the delay in the project...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Planning Framework (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the national planning framework as outlined to the media during December 2016, the reason he envisages that no area north of County Galway will be earmarked for targeted development similar to his proposals for counties Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Galway; his further views on the flaws of this...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: 616. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason farmers who were in receipt of farm assist and who paid an annual self-employed stamp are not receiving the benefit of that stamp in their contributory pensions for the years 1999 to 2007; his plans to rectify this anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41743/16]