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Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (22 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 279. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have narcolepsy included in the long-term illness scheme. [37032/15]

National Asset Management Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for giving us the opportunity to raise this issue and pay tribute to Deputy Wallace for having the courage to stand up and throw the ball into play on the very first occasion. The manner in which he, and anyone who raises questions around the issue, have been treated clearly demonstrates that something is afoot. The manner in which people are running for cover...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that a Garda Síochána information services centre (details supplied) in County Mayo is understaffed, making it difficult to cover evenings, nights and weekend shifts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36705/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that Garda Síochána information services centre staff members who have been placed on day shift only, due to medical reasons, have lost their shift allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36706/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Civilian Staff Recruitment (21 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to hold an internal executive officer competition in the Garda Síochána information services centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36707/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Enterprise Support Schemes (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: I welcomed the policy statement on entrepreneurship at the time, but when another wing of the Minister of State's Department, the National Competitiveness Council, published the Irish competitiveness scorecard in 2015, it said that "elements of Ireland’s environment for entrepreneurship are relatively poor in an international competitiveness context; in particular, reducing the time...

Topical Issue Debate: Enterprise Support Schemes (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Keating. This evening, we note the loss of Mr. Hugh Cooney, the former chairman of Enterprise Ireland, who did massive work for this country in that role and, more particularly in the past number of weeks, as an advocate of better health care particularly for men. I pay tribute to him and mark his passing. We had the Enterprise Ireland management team with us today at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank Ms Sinnamon and her team for the presentation. I commend them and everybody in Enterprise Ireland, particularly those who are abroad, on their performance over the past 12 months. It has been very strong and is the result of much hard work on the part of all Enterprise Ireland staff both here on the island and internationally. I have a couple of points. Ms Sinnamon mentioned the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: How would we compare with regards to Europe and scale-ups in California? Are we way behind the curve?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: Could the witnesses provide us with a breakdown of both gains and losses geographically and sector by sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: Was there a profit of €3 million on one transaction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: How does that compare with the position in other agencies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: Since the commencement of the meeting, the death of Hugh Cooney, the previous chairman of EI, has been announced. We are discussing much of his legacy at this meeting. On behalf of the committee, I wish to pay tribute to Hugh for his work in the agency and especially for his courage and advocacy in recent weeks. I extend my sympathies to his family and his former colleagues at the agency.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a payment under the area aid scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36181/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment review under the Rural Environment Protection Scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Sligo. [36358/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on a payment to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, under the disadvantaged areas scheme. [36083/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to amend the relevant circular relating to compassionate leave for special needs assistants to ensure it includes the death of a brother or a sister-in-law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36327/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 648. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that it is unfair and discriminatory that persons must be living in the principal private residence on 30 June 2015 in order to be eligible for the water conservation grant; his further views that this especially discriminates against students whose tenancy agreements generally run from September to May; if she...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (20 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: 717. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the cultural and economic importance of an institution (details supplied) in County Mayo, the commercial threat to the future of that institution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36420/15]

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Dara Calleary: Their brains are fried from doing budgets.