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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Scheme Eligibility (17 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: 91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he continues to persist in demanding the collective agreement requirement for participation of commonage farmers in GLAS; if he will confirm that this requirement is not a requirement of the EU but of his Department; if his attention has been drawn to the impracticality of such a requirement; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: Was any consideration given to bringing back on a contract basis retired officials who had worked on the file and in the area, as many Departments and agencies have done? Surely, given the importance of the issue - if it was thought to be important, which is subject to debate - and given their familiarity with the information, that would have been the way to deal with it? Were the resource...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Department also has regulatory responsibilities, over which we have oversight.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: This year - 2014.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: Similarly, did the Minister receive a request in March 2011 to meet the authorised officer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: A brief-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: I accept the wider agenda. While I do not want to impinge on the committee, other Departments, including, I am sure, this Department, have brought in retired staff for specific jobs given their experience. Was any consideration given to that? I am on record as acknowledging the work of the Department, but I want to know, specifically, from Ms Power, in what month in 2013 was an inquiry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: Did Ms Power discuss it at a management committee? Did she seek support from the Secretary General? Ms Power will be aware of the importance of the document. She will be aware of the Department's history in dealing with the document. Surely when a grenade arrives in on a desk, the grenade gets dealt with first. I am sure Ms Power must have had a sense of the importance of the document...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: There is nothing new in it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: Was it September or December?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: I am on record as acknowledging the huge input of the Department in the Presidency. As recently as last Wednesday I acknowledged in the Minister's presence the huge input and co-operation of departmental officials in the Companies Bill. However, as the Secretary General said, the matter had been the subject of previous investigations and it was one of great importance to the State. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: I do not mean outsourced, but skills are available that could have come into the Department, as had previously been done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister, Secretary General and the officials for their input. The Minister will be politically aware that we want to focus on one specific issue - to which neither the Minister nor the Secretary General referred - that of the management of correspondence within the Department from the authorised officer. He has said that the correspondence was sent to the Minister's home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: It relates to him as the specific complaint, the circumstances of which we are trying to get to the bottom of, is that information was provided directly to the Minister as well. As the Minister is the political head of the Department, I assume he has a role in answering that complaint.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: I will rephrase the question. Did the Secretary General receive from the Minister correspondence that was purportedly sent to him in 2012 by registered post? Was that correspondence passed on to him as Secretary General and what subsequently happened that correspondence or information within the Department? What processes were in place within the Department? The Minister has previously...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Statistics (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: 293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of big data and data analytics enterprises established here in the period 2011-2014; the number of persons employed in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48477/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: 433. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide correspondence between the Health Service Executive and the parents of a child (details supplied) in County Mayo who has applied for a medical card; if the application is being processed; if he will confirm if a card will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47842/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: 453. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be reinstated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who availed of a discretionary card in the past. [47989/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: 496. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive commissioned inquiries into Áras Attracta in County Mayo will be completed; his views that these should be finished as quickly as is possible, that is before year end; his further views on the RTE "Prime Time" programme of 9 December 2014; and his plans to restore confidence for the residents and the families of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Resolution Board Remit (16 Dec 2014)

Dara Calleary: 600. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will permit the Pyrite Resolution Board to consider the emerging situation in County Mayo with respect to defective blocks; if he will extend the pyrite compensation scheme to include those affected in County Mayo; his plans to address this problem in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter....