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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?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Competitiveness (23 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his assessment of the recent Forfás report The Costs of Doing Business 2012; if he has prioritised any of the issues highlighted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18971/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bank Lending (23 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: I am in the same boat, so to speak. We tabled questions about legacy debt for the Department of Finance also. They are specifically tailored for this Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Retail Sector (23 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: I acknowledge the work the Minister of State is doing in tidying up the licensing side of matters. Concerns have been expressed by RGDATA and other small business organisations about the practices adopted by AIB and Bank of Ireland regarding banking charges. For example, there has been a 165% increase in lodgment fees by AIB, the State-owned bank to small business. I know of a practice by...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Retail Sector (23 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: It would be better if AIB did fewer glossy reports telling us what we know and took business seriously to give them a fair pitch in financing day-to-day business. What is happening is ridiculous. The banks are doing the bank robbery and robbing business. As the Government is the prime shareholder in AIB, will the Minister point out forcefully that these practices are not helping the growth...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Retail Sector (23 Apr 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has had any recent meetings with RGDATA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18972/13]