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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population Statistics (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Census of Population is a very large statistical, administrative and logistical exercise that must be conducted with great care and professionalism. It requires careful and detailed advance planning and the 2016 census will cost the exchequer some €50 million over the three years from 2015 to 2017. Given the recent budgetary environment that Ireland has experienced the Central...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. Table 1 below shows the number of employees (ILO) aged 15 years and over classified by permanency of job from Q2 2007 to Q2 2014. Table 2 below shows the number of employees (ILO) aged 15 and over not in permanent...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government Implementation (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Programme for Government sets out an ambitious Oireachtas Reform agenda, which will be implemented over the lifetime of the Government on a phased basis. The first phase of Reform was introduced in 2011 and included: - An additional Leader’s Questions session on Thursdays. - Monthly Friday sittings to give TDs the opportunity to have their own Private Members Bills debated in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Youth Unemployment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment and unemployment in the State and the data also provides information on persons Neither in Employment nor in Education and Training (NEET). The Q2 2014 estimates are the most recent QNHS figures available. The table below shows the volume of persons aged 16-24 who are classified as being...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) collects quarterly information from enterprises with 3 or more employees. While gender and age are not collected and are therefore not available, there were an estimated 68,100 employees earning the minimum wage of €8.65 or below in Q1 2014.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: CSO Quarterly Accounts (23 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of labour force estimates in the State and the data also provides information on persons classified by nationality. The CSO does not collect information in QNHS on the reason for immigration of persons. The Q2 2014 estimates are the most recent QNHS figures...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Defence Forces Retirement Scheme (17 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Senator Byrne for raising this issue. The Minister for Defence, Deputy Simon Coveney, sends his apologies for his absence this evening, and would like to advise the Senator that he will be taking questions on this issue tomorrow morning in the Dáil. I will commence by outlining the background to the present upper service limits applicable to personnel who enlisted in the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Defence Forces Retirement Scheme (17 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: The process is currently under way and I expect that it will take approximately eight weeks. We may not have a final decision at this stage but I hope that in eight weeks' time we will have some form of decision, as I know that this is a matter of concern both for the officers concerned and their families, as we are rapidly approaching early 2015, when they are due to be discharged. I hope...

Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy O'Dea might not be here.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (17 Sep 2014)

Paul Kehoe: No, it is okay.

Membership of Committees: Motion (17 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That Deputy Damien English (Minister of State at the Departments of Education and Skills and Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation) be discharged from the Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and that Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy be appointed in substitution for him.

Statement of Estimates for the Houses of the Oireachtas: Motion (17 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That Dáil Éireann take note of the Statement of Estimates of moneys required in respect of ongoing expenditure for the period beginning on 1 January 2015 and ending on 31 December 2015, prepared and published by the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission in accordance with section 13 of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 as amended by section 8 of the Houses of the...

Standing Orders 125 and 129: Motion (17 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 99(1)(a), the Committee on Procedure and Privileges recommends that the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business are hereby amended‒ (a) in Standing Order 125, by the deletion of paragraph (2); and (b) in Standing Order 129, by the substitution of the following for paragraph (2):‘(2) When the amendments (if...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Ronan MacLochlainn) Order 2014: Motion (17 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That Dáil Éireann:bearing in mind the specific matters considered by Government to be of significant public concern arising from the fatal shooting of Ronan MacLochlainn by members of the Garda Síochána during the course of an attempted armed robbery of a Securicor van in Co. Wicklow on 1 May 1998; noting that it is the opinion of the Government that a Commission...

Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy Higgins’s microphone is off.

Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: Careful, Gerry.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Ronan MacLochlainn) Order 2014: Referral to Joint Committee (15 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann: bearing in mind the specific matters considered by Government to be of significant public concern arising from the fatal shooting of Ronan MacLochlainn by members of the Garda Síochána during the course of an attempted armed robbery of a Securicor van in Co. Wicklow on 1st May, 1998; noting that it is the opinion of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Job Creation Data (15 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 129 and 130 together. The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) compiles information on jobs created and destroyed and jobs lost by linking P35L returns from the Revenue Commissioners with the CSO Business Register. The information relates to all employing enterprises from key sectors of the business...

Business of Dáil (11 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: To respond to the Deputy's point, if he talks to his party leader or party Whip, they might be able to advise if there is an opportunity-----

Business of Dáil (11 Jul 2014)

Paul Kehoe: When the Deputy puts himself into a position-----