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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Grant Payments (21 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: 697. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of grant money paid by his Department in 2013 to Shannon Airport; if any debt due from the airport to his Department or to any agency under his aegis has been written off and if so the amount; the value of assets transferred or due to be transferred from Shannon Development to Shannon airport and the annual income...

Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (16 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: I join all Members in complimenting the staff of the various local authorities and the emergency response agencies for their response to the situation. I ask the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to suspend all inspections for the time being. A property that was extensively damaged was inspected for fencing. It is beyond me how any inspector could drive into an area to look...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: Their questions were not answered. In his remarks last night, the Minister of State, Deputy O’Dowd, made the point that the budget for Irish Water was presented to the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Economic Management Council. Who presented the budget? That is important. If the detail of the budget was presented to the Cabinet whoever presented it obviously knew its detail....

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: We all need water. We have a very strong pharma-chemical sector, we have a very strong agrifood sector. The Minister has only to look up his own road to see that. We had that long before Irish Water arrived. We have to drive it on but we have to take away the secrecy. We have to start sharing information. Most of all, the people who use the service must have confidence in it.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister's statement of confidence in the existing staff of various water services bodies across the country. Many of his ministerial colleagues speaking in recent days have given the impression that we have a water service similar to Calcutta, which is not the truth. Water services staff in local authorities across the country, many of whom have migrated over to Irish Water,...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: When we submitted a freedom of information request to get the document in which the Minister confirmed that Bord Gáis Energy would be the parent company of Irish Water, it was completely redacted. We still have no knowledge of how the Minister made that decision. The Minister has criticised our party leader for ignoring a consultancy report without making any reference to why he made...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Deputy should put something into the water in Wexford to get a few hurlers.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: Take it when you are getting it from that quarter, a Cheann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: When?

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: They are from another battalion.

Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: They have a different battalion going.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: From when?

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: It is his fault, so.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: Like the pylons.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: He has got a job with Irish Water.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Minister was not.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding talks with KfW Bank in relation to its proposals for small and medium enterprises lending; the number of meetings that have been held to date and at what official level within his Department and at KfW bank; the amount of money he expects KfW to lend in to the Irish market in 2014 and in 2015; the way this money will be structured...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance if AIB has met its small and medium enterprise lending target of €4 billion as per Government target for 2013; the way this target was made with reference to totally new lending, to restructuring of existing facilities, to moneys advanced for the purchase of assets such as machinery, vehicles and so on, to commercial mortgages provided; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance if Bank of Ireland has met its small and medium enterprise lending target of €4 billion as per Government target for 2013; the way this target was made with reference to totally new lending, to restructuring of existing facilities, to moneys advanced for the purchase of assets such as machinery, vehicles and so on, to commercial mortgages provided;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Fees (15 Jan 2014)

Dara Calleary: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of legal cases in which National Assets Management Agency has been involved in since its inception; the number of legal cases it is involved with at present; the number of cases NAMA has instigated; the number in which it is a defendant; the amount NAMA has spent on legal fees since its inception, broken down by year; the legal firms it has paid...