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Order of Business (25 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: This morning, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, announced that the review of the fair deal scheme was on the desk of the Secretary General of the Department. Is it intended to publish that review? Will a debate on it be scheduled? Second, the Taoiseach announced on the television some nights ago that the referendum on marriage equality will be...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: When?

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Does the Taoiseach believe that?

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: The Taoiseach promised to keep Roscommon Hospital open.

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: He sounds like he is up on the back of a lorry again.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (25 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide extra support to local enterprise offices in order to assist them to support small and medium-sized enterprises, who are steel fabricators, to achieve the new accreditation required by the European Union, thereby maintaining employment, and ensuring competition, in this sector; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Premium Payments (25 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 102. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on a forestry appeal (details supplied). [8383/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Will Mr. Fielding talk us through how his proposals in regard to the earned income tax credit would work? He did not have it costed and is leaving that to the Low Pay Commission to do, but does he have any idea of a costing? A small business would not make a proposal without costing it. Are there any companies in which it works? Mr. Fielding said the price of many items and essential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank the two presenters. I will make two points. First, I am slightly concerned that Dr. Collins's method of calculating a living wage seems to exclude the role of the State in terms of either taxation or transfer in that it appears to place it all on the shoulders of the employer. In the context of what Mr. Seamus Coffey had to say to us before the representatives came in - I do not...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (24 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on an agri-environment options scheme and sheep technology adoption programme scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [7916/15]

Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Has the Taoiseach been sent to the corner?

Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: After the election.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: On the events of yesterday involving the prison officers, I, too, extend my sympathies to all concerned. In 2012, I introduced the Assaults on Emergency Workers Bill, which provided for additional protection for gardaí, nurses and prison officers who in protecting society put their lives in danger. The Government voted down that legislation because of technical difficulties and also...

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: They are.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Did the Taoiseach meet them on the streets?

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Of spinning.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Tories.

Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Did the current Government restore the blind pension to its previous level?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: On subheads A1, A5, A7 and A8 and the relevant subhead dealing with the credit guarantee scheme-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister, the Ministers of State, Deputies English and Nash, and their officials. I also thank the committee secretariat for the brief provided to members. On subhead A5, I take this opportunity to congratulate IDA Ireland and all involved on the successful year they have had. However, is it a matter of concern to the Minister that while 15,012 jobs were created in 2014,...