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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation under the Action Plan for Jobs, the concrete measures that will be taken to improve the supports for self-employed persons and entrepreneurs following budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12092/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 119. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the details of a jobs announcement (details supplied); the timing of the job creation; the interactions that have been had between any State enterprise agency and the promoter; if his attention has been drawn to these interactions and to the announcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12423/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the rationale for requiring young farmers who do not have a Further Education and Training Awards Council accredited qualification to attend classroom-based training under the new Young Farmers Scheme, when those with such an accredited qualification can complete the course online; his views on introducing a practical...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Eligibility (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of training places that are available nationally under the Young Farmers Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12227/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Plan (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available to farmers who wish to construct road underpasses to assist in expanding their dairy herds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12228/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the scheme to support national organisations; his plans for the scheme; the reason he has not acted on the appeal reviews submitted to him by Pobal in October 2014; if he will extend the bridging period to December 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12223/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (25 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding has been approved and sanctioned for a project (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12224/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State and his team. I have not had a chance to attach my questions directly to the heads. The Minister has already appointed a board and I suspect that none of the members of the interim board has ever been on the minimum wage or ever experienced living on the minimum wage. Equally, there is nobody on the board who has ever been a direct employer or run a small...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: Will the commission specifically recommend on the minimum wage or will the Minister give it a wider role in terms of joint labour committees, JLCs, wages, wages for apprenticeships and wages for part-time workers, under-age workers and so forth?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: I am good, Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: Ms O'Toole referred to her concerns about the independence of the commission and that it may not survive another Government. I ask if she could expand on that view. What are the key factors that have driven the gender pay gap? What can this legislation do to address it? The majority of employers - in excess of 90% - are compliant and more than compliant with legislation. Ms Lynch...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: Should it be an issue in terms of the minimum wage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the speakers and want to reassure Deputy Tóibín there are many decent employers too, just in case he thinks there are not. Relativity has been spoken about and the impact of relativity. Where can we get a measurement of that for accurate figures? If the committee was to propose that relativity be included, where would it find measurements? I accept the argument, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: Relativity is addressed to all the witnesses, because everybody spoke about it. Mr. Fielding started it.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 144. To ask the Taoiseach to provide the number of self-employed persons, in tabular form, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11846/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 145. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form, by county, the number of self-employed persons for the most recently available period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11868/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Post Office Network (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 227. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department is sending letters to social protection claimants encouraging them to switch their payment method from the post office to the bank; her views on this strategy; her further views that the continued partnership between her Department and the local post office network should be preserved and supported; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a flood relief plan has been finalised in respect of a town (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he will publish the plan; if he will offer a time frame for completion of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11202/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Initiative (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 320. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to address and alleviate the high rate of jobless homes in the State; his plans to address concerns regarding Government policy in this regard; and as lead Minister with responsibility for the Action Plan for Jobs, the policy tools that will be used to decrease the current number of jobless homes; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund Applications (24 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: 321. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position in respect of the 41% of microenterprises who applied for funding under the Microenterprise Loan Fund Scheme which were rejected in the period 1 October 2012 to 31 December 2014; his plans to address concerns regarding this rejection for funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12121/15]