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Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Will the Government publish the charges?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (5 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the situation regarding graduates of the Higher Diploma in Education who have yet to secure their 100 consecutive days within the three year time-frame in order to complete the qualification in view of the fact that many are struggling to secure employment and in some cases even acknowledgments of their applications; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tourism Employment (5 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether there is a shortage of skilled staff in the hotel and catering sector; the actions that he proposes to address this shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11121/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Communities (5 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial supports that are available to fishermen in County Mayo who are the owner-operators of vessels of 15GT and down to 5GT or less who experienced severe gear losses during the recent storms; if the current catch restrictions placed on these small boat owners can be temporarily lifted to alleviate the current pressures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: What about the IDA's targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I am intrigued as to why another entrepreneurship competition is needed. Are there not enough of them? The Minister is proposing an allocation of €2 million for this. What will be different about the Brutons as opposed to the Oscars?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Who will run it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Am I right in saying that only 50 people have taken up that voucher so far?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Will it be 2,000 by next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: What are the 2014 targets for the pillar banks for SME lending?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I have a number of questions in respect of the Action Plan for Jobs. Would the Minister prefer me to group them or ask them individually?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The first area I wish to consider is what the Minister called disruptive reform last year. Thereafter, I wish to examine the financial side of things and I then wish to make some general comments, if that is all right. I will keep them as brief as I can. Last year, the big idea of the plan was disruptive reforms and the first of which was to make Ireland the leading country in Europe for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I am aware that many of the issues may arise in the next discussion on the jobs action plan but I am intrigued by the tussle, as it were, between ECOFIN and the Council. It is important that we get a jobs-focused agenda at the heart of Europe, otherwise, recovery will not mean anything to anybody. Where does Ireland stand in that regard? In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Is there is a contradictory view on it?

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: I did not think we would be discussing political reform this early in the proceedings, but I agree with much of what Deputy Flanagan has said. However, the fraud that is political reform is absolutely evident right now in this Chamber. Deputy Tóibín and I are here but the Minister has left. He is now attending a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Government is not listening to it.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: He has had his Weetabix.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Seachtain na Gaeilge (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Go raibh maith agat, a chathaoirligh, agus gabhaim fáilte roimh na scoláirí, na múinteoirí agus na daoine eile atá linn, go háirithe na scoláire ó Choláiste Mhuireadaigh, m'iar scoil féin. Tá sé suimiúil go raibh trí cheist ann agus gur roghnaigh an chuid is mó des na micléinn ceist na fostaíochta. An...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on recommendation 6.3.1 of the Entrepreneurship Forum report in relation to personal guarantees; if he has had any discussions with the Central Bank around this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10956/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo will have their capital funding application processed; if he will expedite the application in view of the fact that the school building in its present guise represents a health and safety hazard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10989/14]