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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (13 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: The 128,000 people who are seeking further employment are constrained in finding it. They see others finding full-time employment, while they remain in part-time employment. While I accept that there has been a fall, we are still 3% or 4% above the EU average according to EUROSTAT figures. Does this point to the danger of focusing efforts on job creation in part-time sectors and sectors...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (13 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: Is a skills profile available in order that full-time opportunities being created can be made available to those in the relevant cohort in order that they will have a chance of finding full-time employment within the sectors to which the Minister referred? Is someone working with this cohort to ensure the skills profile is kept up to date and their skills are relevant to the opportunities...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (13 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when promised industrial relations legislation will be introduced on collective bargaining rights, and on enhancing existing anti-victimisation provisions; the action being taken to address the industrial unrest at Ireland’s largest indigenous retailer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18353/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Supports (13 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to encourage greater levels of research and development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18357/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (13 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation considering he is the lead Minister for the Action Plan for Jobs, the steps he will take following the latest National Competitiveness Council report Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2015, outlining that Ireland was the third most expensive location in the euro area for consumer goods and services; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (13 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 39. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation under the Action Plan for Jobs, the concrete measures that will be taken to improve the supports for self-employed persons and entrepreneurs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18354/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Living City Initiative (13 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grant assistance and-or tax relief available to owners of commercial buildings who wish to renovate their premises, particularly shop-fronts; if assistance exists for commercial buildings in excess of 100 years old; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18712/15]

Independent Planning Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (12 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: I commend the Sinn Féin motion which Fianna Fáil will be supporting. Back in 2012, we proposed a similar motion in response to the Mahon tribunal report. If that position had been adopted then we would be a lot further on than we currently are. That said, I do acknowledge that there has been a lot of progress as outlined in the Minister's script. I am intrigued, however,...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: Is there a definition of "reasonable force" contained in the legislation or elsewhere that could be used?

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: Various people's definition of what constitutes reasonable force might differ.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (12 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank all the contributors. One of them referred to the elephant in the room, which since last Friday morning, has been on the loose and on the rampage and that is the in-out EU referendum in the UK. Any discussion about an all-island economy, therefore, has to take that into account. The referendum will happen within the next 18 to 24 months. What are the delegation's views on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (12 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on an area-based payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [18507/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (12 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a funding application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18447/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Island Communities (12 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 645. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review funding for island development offices (details supplied). [18496/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (7 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if recipients of one-parent family payments who are in year three of a four-year degree course may continue to receive the higher education maintenance grant and their back to education payments when switched to the back to education allowance by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18016/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (7 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if exceptions will be made for inclusion on the old young farmers scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18015/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (7 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite an application for emergency work at a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the delay in dealing with the application to date; the necessity of the works for a specific student; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17906/15]

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: Two weeks ago we debated in the Chamber the plight of SMEs throughout the country. Deputies on all sides of the House highlighted the difficulties which still exist for SMEs trying to access finance, in particular the cohort of SMEs whose banks are exiting the market, whose loans are being sold to foreign investment funds and for which there is no protection and limited finance. The lack of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (6 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way her Department proposes to calculate the capacity to work of persons on disability payments, and to decide on who should be activated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17326/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (6 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to re-opening the community service programme, in view of its positive impact; the other options that are available for groups providing an essential service, who cannot access community employment scheme places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17549/15]