Results 10,561-10,580 of 14,616 for speaker:Dara Calleary
- Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: It is because we did it that Deputy Brian Hayes is on that side of the House.
- Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Fleming for putting forward the motion to allow us to discuss this issue this evening. I suspect that I have more sympathy for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister of State with responsibility for public service reform than most people on this side of the House having been in the very early stages of that Department and the Croke Park agreement. One...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: As distinct from the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: Some €300 million.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: What about Croke Park I?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (24 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: 54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the Action Plan on Jobs 2013 will tackle the problem of underemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18649/13]
- Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his speech. I thank him also for the information on the Bill provided by his office over the past number of days. I compliment all the officials involved and all those who have been involved since 2000, the members of the Company Law Review Group. I suspect they feel like parents seeing their child go off to school for the first time - they have nurtured and cared...
- Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: Can we see it?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: The Taoiseach is doing nothing about it.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: Phone a friend.
- Other Questions: Retail Sector (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and for offering to bring this matter to the interdepartmental committee. While they do not fall directly under the jurisdiction of the Minister of State some issues arise from the way this is distorting retail competition. Retailers in town centres are forced to put up with these charges while they do not affect those out of town. There are many...
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: Most would be happier here at home.
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: Not enough people are getting it.
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: People do not know about it.
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: What is the term of the loan?
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: It has not put in an application yet.
- Other Questions: Microenterprise Loan Fund (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: I beg the forgiveness of the Chairman. Many questions have been referred to different Departments and there is a suggestion in the replies that we should table questions to different Ministers. The whole notion of the Action Plan for Jobs was a whole of Government approach. Deputy Peadar Tóibín and other Deputies cannot be coming in to the Chamber three days every week trying to...
- Other Questions: Job Creation Issues (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: I ask the Minister to outline the implementation procedure for the youth guarantee. Will his Department or the Department for Social Protection be the lead Department? More importantly, where is the budget line for the implementation of the guarantee? What is the current position on COSME? Is an agreement on a budget for it imminent? At the beginning of the Irish Presidency in January...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Competitiveness (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: Electricity costs for SMEs in Ireland are now among the highest in the euro area and the fourth most expensive behind Cyprus, Malta and Italy. The cost of credit for new loans to Irish enterprise exceeds costs in the euro area for a range of loan types from the banks, but also from a State scheme, the microfinance scheme, which at over 8% is far higher than many euro projects. A warning...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Competitiveness (23 Apr 2013)
Dara Calleary: Forfás also points to the difficulties arising in the property sector, particularly the lack of availability of high-quality office space and the implications this has for enterprise. Is this something the IDA is dealing with or aware of? Are there specific proposals in this regard?