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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Provision (13 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 463. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to advance the Luas Lucan line project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35576/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (8 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 22. To ask the Minister for Defence given recent events in County Mayo (details supplied), if he will ensure that in future there will be an automatic Navy response following a request from An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34501/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (8 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 31. To ask the Minister for Defence the circumstances surrounding the delay in involvement by the Naval Service in a recent search in County Mayo which had been requested by An Garda Síochána (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34500/15]

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: -----it leaves little scope for new regional maintenance and regional development projects. If there is to be a proper regional plan that seeks not to cut Dublin or to make it suffer but to restore and build a balance, one would ask why projects such as the Cork-Limerick route have not been given the go-ahead. This is why senior civil servants must appear before committees - to answer for...

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: I will quote the Minister on that. However, the fact it has taken so long to deliver serious public transport plans such as the metro north undermines the plan. While we claim Dublin to be a European and world city, the fact that one still arrives into Dublin Airport and does not have direct rail access into Dublin city undermines our capacity as a country to sell ourselves. As for flood...

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: -----and one could ask why we are not in position to make progress on that project or why it could not have been delivered. The Minister mentioned 2016, and there will be a lot of pomp and ceremony next year, but in respect of a real monument to the men and women of 1916, a dedicated children's hospital would have been far better than a march down O'Connell Street.

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: Again, however, the issues that dogged the delivery of the children's hospital will dog much of this plan.

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: It was not simply the site. There were planning issues and many other problems, because there has been no reform. There have been no major changes to the system that delivers, and that is what must happen. IBEC, which is a fan of the Minister's senior party in government, has stated that 90% or 95% of capital expenditure is on maintenance. The tradition will continue within this plan. As...

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: I apologise for being late for the Minister's remarks. He was positively purring when he delivered some of the macroeconomic statistics. I do not know whether it was a dress rehearsal for next Tuesday. There are a number of issues with the plan. It should be viewed in the context of a lack of deliverable dates for many of its projects. This points to a failure to reform the delivery...

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: ----analyse whether and when X, Y or Z will be delivered. The civil servants who are in charge of prioritising and not prioritising projects within the plan should appear before each committee to justify that selection. I do not know whether we can do that in the course of this Dáil. Perhaps we cannot, in which case it should be the first item on the agenda for the next bunch of...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: In the context of the National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015, there is a very serious threat to the future of Westport House, regarding which the Taoiseach and the late Senator Myles Staunton were involved in legislation. Is the Taoiseach planning any intervention in the situation around Westport House?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: There is legislation.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: The National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: How are they entirely separate?

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: What about the meters?

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: Some €500 million. The Government got it wrong.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: Denis's ball boy.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: The Taoiseach has done a great deal of changing as well.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the amount of employer's pay-related social insurance collected by her Department in each year from 2011 to 30 June 2015, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34896/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Living Wage (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the discussions she or her Department have had with suppliers or service contractors to her Department, or to agencies of her Department, to ensure that employees of such suppliers and contractors are paid the Living Wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34898/15]