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Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Paul Kehoe: He could raise it as a Topical Issue matter.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (8 Oct 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I can stay until 1.50 p.m.

Seanad: Defence Forces Overseas Missions: Statements (8 Oct 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the opportunity to address the Seanad on this issue. If Members on all sides have one thing in common, it is respect for the Irish Defence Forces. Since 1974 the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, UNDOF, has successfully supervised the implementation of the disengagement agreement, maintaining an area of separation between the Israeli and Syrian forces which is over 75...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)

Paul Kehoe: What about Deputy Martin's time in office?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy Healy-Rae is raking it in. He has the Independent Member's allowance and a post office.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Live Register Data (7 Oct 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Live Register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance and other registrants as registered with the Department of Social Protection. The table below shows the number of persons who have been on the Live Register for one year or more, for the period from...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: CSO Quarterly Accounts (7 Oct 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The information requested by the Deputy is not available for 2013 or for 2014. Data for 2013 is not yet available as it is dependent on the receipt of administrative data which are filed in 2014 but are not fully available to the CSO until March 2015. The latest CSO Business Demography returns for 2012 were released on 18 June 2014. The primary purpose of Business Demography is to provide...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill as it will bring changes to health professions. If we are to improve the health system changes are necessary. This is a technical Bill with 44 sections and some primary objectives. First, the Opticians Board will be subsumed into the Health and Social Care Professionals Council. Second, the Bill will make amendments to the Health and Social...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (24 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 9th March, 2011, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister for Finance Minister for Foreign...

Membership of Committees: Motion (24 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Minister of State at the Departments of Justice and Equality and Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht) be discharged from the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and that Deputy Ciara Conway be appointed in substitution for him. That Deputy Ann Phelan (Minister of State at the Departments of Agriculture, Food and...

Double Taxation Relief Orders: Motion (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Orders in draft: (i) Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Kingdom of Belgium) Order 2014, (ii) Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income and Capital Gains) (Kingdom of Thailand) Order 2014, (iii) Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income and on Capital) (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) Order 2014, (iv) Double...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I am surprised to hear the Deputy speak about yellow pack workers and single out the Fine Gael Party's policy given that his party, when it was in government, reduced the national minimum wage, a measure for which the Deputy voted. No person has ever come to me with a concern regarding my party's position on this issue. Indeed, the figures stand up for themselves in terms of the measures we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I would advise Deputy Boyd Barrett to get out a bit more and explore.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Exactly. The Deputy will only go to places where there are pickets, negativity and bad news stories. He should get out a little more in his constituency to hear from members of the business community what is happening. There is positivity out there.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I always find that if one stays around negative people, one will become negative oneself. That is exactly what has happened to the Deputy. He has spent far too long up in that back row. If he came over and talked to us on this side of the House, he might become a little more positive about what is really happening.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: A few years ago Deputy Boyd Barrett was giving out about block layers and so on being paid €600 or €700 per week. I do not agree with his sentiments today and I hope he will take my advice to try and be a little more positive.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. During my time in this House, since 2002, Deputy Higgins's train of thought has never changed. Allow me to outline to the Ceann Comhairle that unemployment decreased by 46,200, that is, by 15.4%, on an annual basis between the second quarters of 2013 and 2014, bringing the total number of persons unemployed to 254,500. This is the eighth quarter in succession...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: While I do not agree with some of the Deputy's positions, I question whether he actually is questioning some of the figures I have too hand from the Central Statistics Office, which is independent. When the Government came into office in 2011, the unemployment figure was 15.1%, at present it is 11.2% and next year, it is projected to fall to 9.9%. These are the projections the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The information on migration is published in the annual population and migration estimates release. In 2014, the release showed that the net outward migration in the year to April 2014 is estimated to have fallen to 21,400, which is a decrease of 11,700 from the previous year's figures of 33,100. Emigration from Ireland in the 12 months to April 2014 is estimated to have fallen to 81,900...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Deputy for his question. Statistics on the labour force and employment by sector are based on the quarterly national household survey, QNHS, conducted by the Central Statistics Office. These figures are published on a quarterly basis and the latest figures available are for the second quarter of 2014. The results for that quarter show that employment has increased by 31,600 in...