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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 12: In page 23, line 1, to delete “give a direction in writing to the Commission requiring it to comply with” and substitute “request the Commission to comply with”.This is a small technical amendment which states that the Minister and his officials can issue a direction and are not restricted to writing. My amendment proposes that they can...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 14: In page 30, to delete lines 22 to 25 and substitute the following: "(6) The Minister may, from time to time, request the Commission to consider guidelines from him or her concerning the preparation of the Commission’s work programme and the Commission may consider same.".Occasionally, in terms of the proposed work of the commission, items will arise that may...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 15: In page 31, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:"(2) The Minister shall, within six months of a report being submitted to him or her by the Commission, outline to each House of the Oireachtas, the actions the Minister has taken following on from any recommendations made in such a report.".The commission publishes annual reports and, given its powers, one...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:"(2) Any resources used by the Commission shall be allocated by application of a set of priority principles in the public interest.".It is standard - we need to move away from the standard - that there is quite a lot of reference throughout the Bill in regard to the Competition and Consumer Protection...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 7: In page 15, line 8, after "inability," to insert "not exceeding 12 months,".If somebody is temporarily unavailable, there needs to be some sort of, to use the Minister's phrase, "certainty" provided as to what is meant by "temporarily", given the importance of the role of the commission and the importance of the commission members. My party proposes that there be a 12...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: The State is in many instances fixing the price.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: We have a group of providers dealing with a dominant force, which is the State, and it is abusing that dominance while using competition law to cover that abuse.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following:"(3) The Minister shall make provision under this section whereby it shall not be a breach of this Act (or any statutory instrument relating to competition law), for the State to negotiate fees in relation to professional contracts for services from members of professional bodies, and a list of such services...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: We are not discussing a predetermined attempt to determine prices, but people's negotiation of contracts with State providers. The HSE or another organisation could be seeking people to provide a service on its behalf in a normal business practice. Technically, the people might be self-employed, but they are actually being employed by the State to deliver on contracts. In any business,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for that update. How can a consumer be protected when a powerful agency of the State that seeks to provide a service uses competition law to restrict the ability of those providing the service to negotiate their terms and conditions? That is what is happening, and not just in that particular case. I gather that it also applies to actors. A range of people who provide...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (15 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider increasing the rate of rent supplement to reflect the rising cost of rents; her views that families are struggling to meet their accommodation costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21984/14]

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: It is happening on the Minister, Deputy Reilly's watch.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: It was a very important question.

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: I wish to share time with Deputy Troy. I endorse much of what Deputy Catherine Byrne stated in finishing. It is not only in Inchicore where that problem arises. We experience it as well, where persons from outside an area decide that an area of social housing, a social housing estate or a local authority estate will be their area of operation. They have no difficulty in coming in there...

Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: More than that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (14 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 15. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive’s current projection for medical cards as set out in the 2014 service plan still stands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21258/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (14 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 44. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the 30,000 fall in discretionary medical cards since 2011, he plans to introduce a third tier medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21259/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (13 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the reason a school (details supplied) was not successful in the recent summer works scheme; if consideration will be given to an emergency works application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21075/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (13 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when part of a river (details supplied) in County Mayo will be maintained. [21304/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Data (13 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 320. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department tracks the correlation between the number of job announcements by Industrial Development Agency Ireland and the numbers created within the time period projected at the time of the announcement; if he will make available his analysis of jobs announced versus jobs created; and if he will make a statement on the...