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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: To pick up on the last point, the procurement difficulties have nothing to do with the financial problems we have. They relate to contracts being awarded. The procurement laws and rules are driving a lot of companies out of business. Many companies, in particular regionally-based companies which have employment potential, are not in a position to bid. I do not know if the Minister has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Forfás strategy for the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12293/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: This year's version of the jobs action plan acknowledges that the construction sector has, by international comparison, overcorrected and is now operating below its long-term sustainable level. What is the Minister's plans for employment creation in this area?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I am not making any thesis that anyone who sets up their own business are inferior. What the Minister read into my argument in his response was that half of those jobs he claimed he created were in fact created by people who have the courage and the ability to set up their own company. If one takes those figures out of it, then 33,000 jobs were created. The fact is that the jobs are lower...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: It should not be abused by the Minister so as to massage the figures, however.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which he will address the falling level of employment in the 15 to 34 age bracket shown in the recent quarterly national household survey report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12292/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Tá a fhios agam gur inniu Lá na Gaeilge agus beimid ag baint úsáide as an Ghaeilge agus an Béarla. We welcome the improvement in the employment figures, but when one looks at the breakdown and the population figures, there were 13,500 fewer people aged between 15 and 34 employed compared with 12 months previously. The number of 15 to 24 year olds in the workforce...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Employment rose by 3.3% but average weekly earnings are down by 0.6%. The income tax figures for the first two months of the year are flat compared with the same period in 2013. If we have the kind of employment growth the Minister is trumpeting constantly, there should be a similar growth in income tax receipts. This shows the jobs being created are paying less and that is still driving...

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

Dara Calleary: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if part-time jobs are included in the figures provided by the Industrial Development Agency for employment in its client companies; the number of the net jobs created by IDA client companies in 2013 that were part-time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12163/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether regional development goals are receiving adequate attention from the Industrial Development Agency Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12162/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Missions (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans for future joint trade missions with Ministers from the Northern Ireland Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12165/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Staff (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customs and excise officials who work at Ireland West Airport, Knock; if they work there on a full-time or part-time basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12538/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Legislative Programme (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 213. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when work will be completed on the adoption information and tracing Bill; her views on whether the current facilities for adoptees wishing to find their birth parents are adequate; her views on whether the inability of adoptees to access their family's medical history is a major health concern for those involved; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (13 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria and application process involved for inventors/product developers in having new products added to the list of products available on the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12480/14]

Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Taoiseach pulled a few rugs himself.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Registration of Title (12 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a land registry transaction will be completed (details supplied) as its ongoing delay is causing financial hardship to the party involved. [12449/14]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I raised a question about this on Second Stage. At present, we can see the budget for Forfás, given that it is a separate agency of the Department, and we can decipher how much of the budget is being spent on independent research. Will it still be possible to see how much the Department is spending on independent research and research that might challenge the Department as well as...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Forfás budget for research was approximately €4.5 million when one stripped it out from all the other costs. Will we still see a research line in the Department, that is, what the Department has spent on its internal research? The Department is acquiring a very qualified and talented bunch of people. Will they still be able to do the type of research that Forfás did...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: What is the up-to-date position on Carrisbrook House, Ballsbridge, the Forfás office building in Ballsbridge which has one tenant. There seems to be an inability to let the remaining floors.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Is it not odd when the IDA is citing the lack of office accommodation in Dublin as an issue, particularly between the canals, that a property with four empty floors right bang in the middle of where everybody wants to be is available on lease from the OPW? There seems to be an attitude to this asset that it will be alright on the night. On Second Stage, I had suggested it would be perfect...