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Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: Amendment No. 2 reads:To delete the words “provide a clear legal entitlement to workers to full time work” and substitute the following:“provide a clear legal entitlement for workers to enable them to request extra hours.” It was a mistake in 2011, and I said it at the time out of a certain proprietary interest, that the Government did not appoint a Minister of...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: They respect their staff and see their staff as part of their workplace. However, as well as showing contempt for their workers and the industrial relations process of this country, Dunnes Stores is showing contempt for the 95% of Irish employers who are good employers and who have respect for those who work for them. The silence of the organisations on this issue is not good. There...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: ----- and what is going on in so many other enterprises across the country. A worker who does not know at the beginning of the week how many hours he or she will be requested to work is not being afforded decent standards or dignity in the workplace. Some 6,000 people went on strike in full knowledge that they would face intimidatory reprisals from their employer. This demonstrates that...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: There is no respect from Dunnes.

Topical Issue Debate: Small and Medium Enterprises Debt (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his reply. The specific problem here is in respect of Ulster Bank. When he discussed the matter with Ulster Bank, it put him in touch with the Royal Bank of Scotland. The latter's argument was that it is under the control of Her Majesty's Treasury and must meet the targets that are set for it in terms of its restructuring. Given that the Minister is reviewing the...

Topical Issue Debate: Small and Medium Enterprises Debt (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and his office for allowing me to raise this issue. The Minister will not be surprised that I am raising it again. Small to medium-sized enterprise, SME, debt, particularly in light of the impending sale of many SME loans to foreign holdings, is the forgotten crisis in Irish banking. There has been an understandable focus on mortgage debt and the buy-to-let...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the support that is available for self-employed persons with contributions on low income. [14091/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the age limit for receipt of child benefit beyond 17 years to include dependent children still in full-time education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14379/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Closures (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position in relation to a Garda Síochána barracks (details supplied) in County Sligo; and the Office of Public Works plans for same. [14035/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 222. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits by IDA Ireland client or prospective client companies, in tabular form and on a county basis, for the first three months of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14540/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 618. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of time it currently takes to register as a nurse, from the time of submitting an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14777/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 619. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans for their Clinical Adaptation Programme; his plans to extend the scheme in view of there being 272 nurses on a waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14778/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed timescale for completion of a new national cancer strategy, the proposed membership of the review group, if he will consider including a patient advocate on the review group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14855/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was initially informed that the person would receive the special rate of student grant, only to have this offer withdrawn one month later; her views on the fairness of this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14763/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes that have been introduced to Special Education Support Services; the rationale behind these changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14914/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 817. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the checks he has in place to ensure that each local authority is in compliance with Government rules on procurement; if his Department carries out inspections or audits of local authority procurement practices; if so, the local authorities where breaches have been observed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Legal Services (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 818. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the names of each firm of solicitors that has been appointed by each county council to provide legal services since 2010; the names of those firms that subsequently were retained by each of the councils; the reason there is a practice of appointing firms to a panel and subsequently...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Legal Services (15 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: 819. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of money spent by each local authority in the State on legal fees and services in each of the years 2010 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14776/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission: Chairperson Designate (14 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I welcome Dr. de Buitléir and wish him well in the task ahead. I suspect that being on the board of management of the local national school was probably the toughest of all the jobs he has held. During the hearings on the Low Pay Commission legislation I expressed a concern that there was a lack of direct employer representation on the body, but I have had discussions with Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission: Chairperson Designate (14 Apr 2015)

Dara Calleary: I asked about the issue of a living wage.