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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Alternative Ten Point Plan for Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Discussion (25 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I welcome Mr. Murphy and Mr. Talbot. In the interests of transparency I must declare that I worked for the organisation prior to being elected to the Dáil. I welcome the plan. Everybody around the table agrees on the importance of small and medium enterprises. I will start with point 11 of the ten point plan and I am surprised Chambers Ireland forgot about it. This is the issue of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (25 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in order that patients are allowed to claim reimbursement in respect of physiotherapy expenses when they self refer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30117/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (25 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the application process that exists for students, currently in receipt of a higher education grant but who are repeating first year in another discipline; if he will confirm that such students will again be eligible for the HEG once they have completed first year of this new course and move onto second year; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (25 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reinstating the child benefit payment to all full time students up to 21 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30119/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (25 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason that participants on jobbridge employed by a school in a non educational capacity, specific case is a caretaker role, must give up their placement on 30 June despite these being a continuing role for them in the summer and are subsequently deemed ineligible for another jobbridge placement because this placement was cut short; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Application Numbers (25 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers drawing down single farm payments on unenclosed hill land on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30678/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fishing Fleet Modernisation (25 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 668. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications made to the Marine Survey Office for the de-rating of engines in vessels; if a certain tolerance level has been introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30676/13]

Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: If he will not talk about SUSI, what about Charlie?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Government is taking three of them away.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: The hours have been cut.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: Team teaching.

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I am not feeling a lot of love for this Bill on the Government benches. If this was Facebook, the relationship status between the Government and the Bill would be complicated at best, and divorced in some instances. Every Deputy should study Deputy Tuffy's contribution before voting on the Bill because she outlined the strengths of the current Seanad and what it can do. A large number...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (19 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 58. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants for the single payment scheme last year that had penalties imposed on them; the number who had a 100% penalties imposed and the total number of applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29348/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is expected that the new areas of natural constraint will be designated under the Common Agricultural Policy agreement 2014-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29373/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (19 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the decision not to allow patients with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis access to the drug pirfenidone; his views on whether it is unfair to disallow access to the drug on a purely economic basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29590/13]

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: While some sort of hesitancy on the part of the Government to act persists, there will be a Gama or a son of Gama case. All the National Employment Rights Authority, NERA, which was established as a response to the Gama case at the time, will be able to do is to implement the basics of labour law. Consequently, far greater urgency is required in this regard. I listened to how the Minister,...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I have much personal respect and regard for Deputy McNamara but it is a little bit dangerous for any Labour Deputy in the current Dáil to accuse any other Deputy of misleading people with false promises. I could pick him up on a number of other issues but I will not. However, the first point resonates in particular with those of us who were Members of the previous Dáil.

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: I have listened to Deputy McNamara and his party’s deputy leader criticising people for castigating others and never seeing the good in anything. I remind him to look at the records of the previous Dáil. I commend Deputy Higgins on introducing a motion that allows us to discuss 1913 because despite Deputy McNamara’s barbs, without him this Dáil would not have had...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: He is hanging around waiting to go.

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: There is consensus and there is agreement generally that the conditions of 1913 were appalling and they were rightly the cause of social unrest. Those who took up the cause of downtrodden workers are rightly and properly lauded by people today, but it would be wrong to equate the difficulties faced in the labour market today with those experienced during the Lock-out. We have a lot to be...