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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: On the role of the company during the Christmas period, does the Minister intend to ask the receiver to pursue the issue that the company continued to trade knowing it may not have been able to honour the purchases?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: This is the second January in a row where workers have been forced to occupy premises. In this case, the workers involved heard about their fate on the media, which is completely unacceptable. I am not sure about the Minister's faith in the receiver when it was the National Consumer Agency that found that HMV Ireland was a separate operation from HMV UK. We did not know that until the NCA...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has any plans to change either consumer or employment legislation in the view of recent events at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3564/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his assessment of the impact to date of the Action Plan on Jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3563/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I wish the Minister and his two Ministers of State every success over the next six months during the Presidency. The Department has ambitious targets and a significant work programme. On behalf of everyone, I wish them well. I tabled a parliamentary question to every Minister earlier this month to ascertain what they had delivered under Action Plan for Jobs and, more important, how many...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Minister is in charge of the line Department for job creation and, therefore, one would assume the Department would be in a position to crack the whip. The Minister for Finance's reply to my parliamentary question about his Department's job creation targets and implementation plan was that it was a matter for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. He was not overly worried...

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State is a businessman. If 405,000 customers were to contact him tomorrow seeking a deal, he would fall over himself to give them a discount. Some 405,000 people are in receipt of the energy allowance, with a further 397,000 in receipt of the telephone allowance. The Minister of State referred to the increase in the costs of these schemes, which is also a reflection of a...

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: Older people do not switch.

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue, about which we have all probably received representations since Christmas and particularly in the past week, as correspondence has arrived from Eircom and Electric Ireland in particular relating to another of the bombshells from the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton. It was sneakily announced in the budget but it is...

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I do not think the Tánaiste read his brief this morning.

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: There is a degree of confusion with regard to the status of the reports of the interdepartmental committee into the Magdalene laundries. The Taoiseach answered questions from both Deputy McDonald and me this week, in which he stated the Government has yet to receive the report and yet. at the beginning of January the Minister for Justice and Equality stated he expected to receive it within...

Order of Business (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: Has it been received by the Government?

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Tánaiste wrote the book on that.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (24 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a retired teacher (details supplied) in County Mayo paid emergency tax on pension arrears and after retirement working as a temporary teacher; if their days worked would be included for pension purposes. [3697/13]

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is setting any non-negotiable conditions in respect of talks on a successor to the Croke Park agreement. [2803/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give or has given any provision for an exemption for persons with disabilities in respect of the property tax; if he will make an exemption for parents of disabled children, who have altered their homes to provide for the care of their disabled child in view of the fact that they have faced financial loss as a result; if he will agree that in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in the South East to develop and pilot an innovation graduates programme in conjunction with the Institutes of Technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3405/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of non-core public service activities have been selected for priority outsourcing to Irish based companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3401/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Government Departments and State agencies that have agreed to participate in procuring innovation initiative since mid-2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3400/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Medical Products (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the medicine pricing deal agreed between his Department and the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association on 15 October 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3148/13]