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Topical Issue Debate: Clerys Closure (17 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's Office for allowing us to raise this matter. Deputy McDonald has already covered many of the issues I wished to raise. It is extraordinary that people who have given 40 years' service would get less than five minutes' notice, if even that, if they happened to be at work at 5 o'clock on Friday last. If they were not at work, they heard about losing their job...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: I wish to speak to amendments Nos. 2 and 5. The purpose of these amendments is to highlight the serious situation involving private equity interests that purchase loans sold by Irish banks. I have met a range of company owners, some of whom have had the ability to go to court and win their case, but most do not have that ability. They have described in detail the position their successful...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (17 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been refused entitlements under the single payment scheme. [24074/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (16 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 456. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of gardaí stationed in Clondalkin, Lucan and Ronanstown in County Dublin, as at 31 May on each of the years 2010 to 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23388/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Status (16 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 600. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the development of the new national paediatric hospital; his views on the current planning and budgetary situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23384/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 601. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the provision of a primary health centre in north Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23385/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Budget (16 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding made available to each local and regional drugs task force for each of the years 2010 to 2014 and for 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23386/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (16 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 603. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the current national drugs strategy concludes in 2016, his plans to develop a new strategy; if he has established a public consultation programme regarding the new strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23387/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (16 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 797. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received a request from Mayo County Council to sanction the appointment of new staff at the council; the details of the sanction sought; the positions advised to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23736/15]

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (10 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the conclusion of the Bill. I agree with everything the Minister of State has just said but, unfortunately, the reality on the ground is so different from what she is working towards. We have a general practitioner system that is in a fundamental crisis and has been for some time. When one is not near an acute hospital, one uses one’s GP. I often remember the case 20...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the publication of this Bill and its arrival into the House after a few false dawns. In 2011, when the Government was appointed, I made the point that the lack of appointment of a Minister for labour affairs to the Department would result in a setback to workers' rights and various pieces of legislation such as this. I was dismissed at the time. I was told it would not be....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a capital building project as of 1 June 2015 in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; when the proposed project will proceed to design stage; when it will go to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22594/15]

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: “This was a democratic revolution at the ballot box...The chasm opened between people and government has to be rebuilt.” Those were the words of the Taoiseach on the night of the general election in 2011. Tonight we can officially declare that revolution dead. Those who were handed responsibility for seeing it through have failed rather spectacularly and the commission of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: I wish to raise a few issues. Will a recent planning decision in respect of Cluddaun, which is a Coillte development, impact on any of the wind farm plans? Coillte was developing the Cluddaun project separately. I am aware from the presentation that Bord na Móna has a joint venture with the Cluddaun project. It seems Bord na Móna, Coillte and ESB are running around the country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: Is Mr. Barry confident that Bord na Móna has good title of all the lands it has around the country? Many of the holdings were based on commonage and the land was given to Bord na Móna for the specific reason of harvesting peat back in the 1940s and 1950s. Does Bord na Móna receive EU payments under CAP?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (9 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 140. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to continue to publish monthly statistics of the number of persons on the live register, in addition to the new monthly unemployment estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22183/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (9 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 141. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to continue to publish monthly statistics of the number of persons on activation courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22184/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (9 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Department's approach to applications for jobseeker's holiday entitlement, in particular to the fact that applicants for the entitlement will have their payment suspended and backdated upon their return; her views that it is fair that jobseekers should have to survive without payment during this period; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (9 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the three European Union procurement directives due to be enacted into Irish law by April 2016 have been implemented; the progress of their implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21574/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (9 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 378. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he will improve access for small businesses to public tendering processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21575/15]