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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (26 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that PRSI contributions in respect of accrued holiday pay, covering actual school holiday weeks, is not appearing on substitute teachers' P60s at the end of the financial year; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Department of Social Protection is counting such holiday weeks in the case...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Outsourcing of Public Services (26 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of non-core public service activities that have been selected for priority outsourcing to companies based here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9083/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foilseacháin Ghaeilge. (26 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén méid airgid in aghaidh na cóipe a thugann Foras na Gaeilge mar mhaoiniú ar fhoilseacháin, amhail Gaelscéal, Comhar, Feasta agus aon fhoilseacháin eile. [9726/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residential Institutions Issues (26 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an institution (details supplied) has been excluded from the proposed Magdalene redress scheme; the options available to those who were in the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10249/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Applications (26 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have a their REP scheme payment processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9570/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 14 February 2013, if he will clarify what he means where he points out that legislation to extend access to general practitioner services without fees to persons with prescribed illnesses and it will be published shortly; the expected date for publication of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10358/13]

Other Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: The old ones are good and never bad.

Other Questions: Grocery Industry (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: Another issue on which the Minister may not have a briefing is that of alcohol sales within the retail sector. Is the Government any closer to publishing its strategy on that area which will impact on the overall sector?

Other Questions: Skills Shortages (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: A proposal for a high-tech visa for those who bring very specific skills has been with the Minister for some time. It is the one forwarded by Open Ireland. Has the Department advanced that proposal? What has the Minister done and what consultation has he had with the Minister, Deputy Quinn, on the language deficit, particularly to up-skill persons to the proficiency of a native speaker?

Other Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: Who will be in charge of delivering on those 30 actions? Will it be the Department alone or will it be the usual troika of the Departments of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Education and Skills and Social Protection? How will we measure those actions? We all know the decline that has taken place in the sector. The Minister for Social Protection has confirmed to me in reply to a...

Other Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: Is there a timeframe for the publication of the action plan? Will the Minister of State give a commitment that he or another Minister or Minister of State will be accountable for the delivery of those plans.? There is no sense in dividing them across three Departments, because they will not be delivered; they will fall between the cracks. This brings me back to a common theme of mine....

Other Questions: Construction Sector Strategy (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: By whom?

Other Questions: Grocery Industry (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Consumer Association of Ireland and the CSO figures have brought the spotlight back on to the supermarket sector. The Minister mentioned relatively weak competition and the difficulty here is that relatively weak competition is impacting on people's day to day existence. Everyone has suffered severe income cuts and they are cutting expenditure to the bone. When we see even a 2.5%...

Other Questions: Professional Fees (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: In June 2011, Forfás issued a report, The Cost of Doing Business, which said there was a danger that if structural barriers preventing costs from adjusting are not removed, once an economic recovery kicks in, recent competitiveness gains will be rapidly eroded. The danger is particularly acute on the legal side of things. Various troika reviews have also pointed this out. The...

Other Questions: Professional Fees (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: First, it is all very well to tell people to shop around. Figures from the Central Statistics Office to the third quarter of 2012 show a 2% increase in service producer prices. There is no sense in shopping around when the price curve is going up. Second, there is no Legal Services Regulation Bill. The Minister for Justice and Equality parked it, as though he could not afford to drive it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I absolutely agree with the Minister of State with regard to the banks. In fact, I tabled a question asking for his opinion on the banks which was disallowed so I thank him for giving his opinion here that the banks are not lending enough. The two pillar banks have been recapitalised and given targets. The Minister of State is meeting business people every day and is in touch with what is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made regarding the uptake of the credit guarantee scheme and the microfinance scheme; his views on whether the pricing of both schemes is appropriate to the current economic conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9431/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Acting Chairman. That was a nicely done Dublin South turnaround in the Chair. I raise a couple of issues. The 100 applications to the microfinance scheme is a healthy sign that is to be welcomed but when only 14 have been approved under the credit guarantee scheme it points to a serious problem in terms of awareness of it. When the Minister of State meets representatives of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the next action plan on jobs will be published; if it will align job creation targets with each initiative for each Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9430/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (21 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his answer. He stated that the action plan for jobs was a series of broad measures without specific targets, but the difficulty lies in the fact that he and his colleagues in government made a commitment in the programme for Government to create 100,000 new jobs by 2016. The live register figures are not moving. The 400,000 or so people who are on the live register...