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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason there are no specific actions in the Action Plan for Jobs to deal with the high corporate debt burden which the action plan identifies as a drag on growth and employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6098/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: The Action Plan for Jobs has identified high corporate debt burden as a significant risk to economic growth and, in consequence, to job creation. There are no specific actions outlined in the action plan and I want to pursue the Minister's thoughts on this area.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: The last item the Minister mentioned sounds like a worthy scheme. In cases of which I have been made aware, one of the main banks - not a pillar bank - is actively exiting the SME market and trying to sell loans off to various venture or vulture funds. The pillar banks have put facilities in place, but the bank that is exiting the SME market will not accept them. Will the Minister's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: The credit guarantee scheme and its revision have been announced as often as I have had hot breakfasts. Will it be done this session? Will it be done before Easter? The scheme was identified as flawed in October 2013, when the Department reviewed it. The new element the Minister has introduced this morning is absolutely vital and urgent because the bank I am referring to, which is one of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (12 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which the Action Plan for Jobs will assist in improving competitiveness in the retails sector in view of an European Central Bank study, which indicated that Irish grocery prices, excluding valued added tax, were considerably above the European Union average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6097/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Youth Unemployment Measures (12 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on trends in the unemployment figures for persons under 25 years of age; the specific measures that will be taken under the Action Plan for Jobs to improve employment opportunities for young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6095/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Global Economic Forum (12 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 38. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his Department’s role in the Global Irish Economic Forum; his views that the forum is realising its full potential in terms of supporting employment growth in the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6099/15]

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: No. 49, the Amendment to the Constitution Bill, is to amend Article 29 in order to recognise the international agreement on the Patent Court. We will have a raft of referendums this year, so is it possible to include it? We were promised that there would be a referendum on this last year. It is not in any way contentious, but if we do not ratify the agreement on the unified Patent Court,...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Turn it up.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authority Funding (11 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money allocated in 2013 and in 2014 to Mayo County Council for the purposes of coastal defences and addressing coastal erosion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6294/15]

Child Care: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Acting Chairman for keeping an eye on my time. I thank Deputy Troy for giving the House the opportunity to discuss the issue of child care and early childhood care in particular. I refer to the hype that came with the formation of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in 2011. The energy in the sector at that time was the result of the work of our late colleague...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) ISME, Startup Ireland, Cork Innovates and IDA Ireland (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank the witnesses. How much would the social welfare changes proposed by ISME and measures relating to entrepreneurship in general and female entrepreneurship in particular cost in a given year? What kind of budget would be needed for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) ISME, Startup Ireland, Cork Innovates and IDA Ireland (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: I wish Mr. Costello good luck with the new mission. The target of making us a global start-up hub by 2020 is ambitious when we are not on any of the maps at the moment. If Mr. Costello was supreme leader and did not have to worry about the Dáil or Seanad or democracy, what are the first two things he would do to reach that target?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) ISME, Startup Ireland, Cork Innovates and IDA Ireland (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: I have been critical of the regional performance and statistics, which we can discuss on another occasion. One of the strengths of our multinational community is its ability to reinvent itself. Ms Buckley mentioned companies that have been in Ireland for 40 years and are doing something completely different now because of the strength of the Irish team and research and development coming up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) ISME, Startup Ireland, Cork Innovates and IDA Ireland (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: I ask the three groups to imagine being before a group of 15-year olds, who are likely to feel pushed towards a permanent pensionable job. What five words would the witnesses use in presentation to persuade these 15-year olds to go down the entrepreneurship route and establish their own businesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) ISME, Startup Ireland, Cork Innovates and IDA Ireland (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: Ms Porter said less than one quarter of females had a STEM background.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) ISME, Startup Ireland, Cork Innovates and IDA Ireland (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: What choices were available to them? In what other directions did they go? What subjects did they do instead of STEM?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 261. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if those who are in paid work for one hour per week are to be counted as being employed in the Government target of full employment by 2018; his plans to measure under-employment among those persons who wish to work longer hours but are not offered same; the target for living-wage employment; if he will publish figures for those...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (10 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: 295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be issued with the result of their appeal under the disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5885/15]

Customs Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2015)

Dara Calleary: On behalf of my colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, I welcome the introduction of this Bill. It is primarily a technical Bill, but it gives us a chance to discuss the issues and pay tribute to the work of the Customs and Excise service. Any legislation dating back to 1876 is probably in need of review. However, what has been constant since then has been the dedication and courage of the...