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Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: To return to the issue we just discussed, the danger of an interdepartmental working group is that it drags on and given the complexity of the work at hand, it may drag on beyond the recess. Will the Minister give a commitment that the Minister for Justice and Equality will come into the House within two weeks to give an update on the work of that group and on its findings and that the...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: What about mediation between Ministers?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, announced here yesterday evening that some people who have lost their discretionary medical cards will now have them returned. It is still not clear whether all people will have them returned and the process for return has not been clarified. This is a particularly dramatic U-turn for this Government, particularly when its members all spent 18 months denying...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: Can the Minister outline his response to the suggestion, which has been made off the record, that he is the block to a resolution? Second, with this debacle in mind, and granted that he has an overseeing role in the Department of Health, can he express full confidence in the Minister, Deputy Reilly's ability to continue his job as Minister for Health?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: What?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: That is an extraordinary response from the Minister. The Cabinet, according to the Minister, Deputy Noonan, had a long discussion on medical cards - as did all of the Members' parliamentary parties. Some 16,000 discretionary medical cards were cut from January 2013 to April 2014. That is a cull in any language. Those are discretionary cards taken from people in the case I described, taken...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He can imagine the frustration of business people and entrepreneurs who are successful, who have created jobs, who have taken the risk and who put their valuable time, which they do not really have, into producing a report. The report was presented in a clear and cogent manner and there is no rubbish associated with it. However, they now are...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: While I genuinely acknowledge the Minister of State's response, the greatest threat to entrepreneurship is an interdepartmental committee. Any sense of entrepreneurship or ambition tends to get parked and choked within such a committee. Were there a commitment that this matter is being dealt with and led at ministerial level and that the Minister of State, together with the Minister, Deputy...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 10. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made to date on implementing the report of the Entrepreneurship Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23792/14]

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: This question is on the report of the Entrepreneurship Forum, which was published in the usual style, as the Taoiseach arrived and did a press conference, high-fived everyone, and told them they were great. That was on 23 January. It is now five and a half months later and we have had nothing. Will the Minister update us on the implementation of the recommendations and where the report is at?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: We tried to raise it as a Topical Issue matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: We have been pointing out the difficulties with this programme for some time. The Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is currently discussing SME financing and had the pillar banks in a couple of weeks ago. We got the sense that this was an add-on and that the credit guarantee scheme was not being taken seriously. This was something that was there but the banks were not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I have no doubt people have benefited, but €450 million has been budgeted for the scheme. Another scheme I have pointed out to the Minister, which has the support of the joint committee and of many Members in the House, involves crowd or source financing. We have been encouraging the Minister to put a pilot scheme in place. Surely, money is going to waste while we wait for a review...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the operation of the credit guarantee scheme to date; when it will be re-vamped to improve its take up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23850/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: As I introduce my second question of the morning, I ask the Minister to have some respect for the Chamber and to update Members on the Bausch and Lomb issue. We have been trying to raise the matter but it was too late to table a question for this morning's business. It is a serious industrial issue and perhaps the Minister can update the Chamber. With regard to the credit guarantee...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his views on the fall in the rate of growth in employment in the first quarter of the year as highlighted in the quarterly national household survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23849/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: The quarterly household survey published last week showed a dramatic slowdown in the level of job creation. I seek the Minister's views on the matter. I imagine Deputy Tóibín would agree with me in respect of my next question. With leniency from the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I call on the Minister to update the House on the current situation at Bausch and Lomb. We have sought to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: Of the 14 sectors which provide data for the quarterly household survey, a total of nine recorded quarter-on-quarter declines in seasonally adjusted terms, four showed increases and one showed no change. It shows a particularly big hit for under 35 year olds and for the lowest age cohort. The Minister referred to retail. Fully 5,000 jobs were lost in retail in the first quarter. I got a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: That confidence is not translating through. The difficulty is that people are getting very frustrated when they continue to read about it. There is also difficulty when the chief executive of a job creation agency, a man for whom I have a good deal of regard and an organisation for which I have superb regard, comes out as a rallying agent for pay and wage reductions. That represents money...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Manufacturing Sector (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that is being made towards the goal of increasing employment in the manufacturing sector by 20,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23793/14]