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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their appeal for invalidity pension processed; if she will expedite the appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3372/13]

Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: The report of the interdepartmental committee on the State's involvement with the Magdalene laundries, completed by Senator Martin McAleese, is being finalised and is with the Minister. When is it intended to publish the report? Will the Taoiseach consider making the report available to survivors' groups ahead of publication?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Action Plan for Jobs (22 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: 184. To ask the Taoiseach the 2012 targets set out for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of these targets; the reason targets were not met; the steps he is taking within his Department to create new jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2460/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo who has been asked to supply information in respect of their partner and in support of their higher education grant application which is not attainable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2277/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (22 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he is tackling the skills shortages in the workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51844/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (22 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department is not furnishing the Department of Social Protection with details of pension entitlements for a widow of a employee of his Department (details supplied) [2774/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (22 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: 320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on the design and roll out of Intreo the new public service brand for the one stop shop for employment services and welfare entitlements; what the redesign involved; the matters on which the money was spent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2462/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (22 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: 535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is awaiting payments under the single farm payment scheme and area aid; if he will expedite this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2504/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Costs (22 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: 583. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or any Government Department has provisions to assist a help day centre (details supplied) in County Mayo in their ongoing transport costs; if such a scheme exists if he will outline the application process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2276/13]

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: A lot of things happened during that time. The matter actually went the other way. We look forward to proposing an amendment in regard to that constituency on Committee Stage, to the effect that this substantial number of Mayo people be recognised in the new constituency, which should be renamed Galway West-South Mayo to reflect the large input of Mayo people. I have no doubt that Deputy...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: We need to give recognition to the fact that there will be such a big move from Mayo into Galway. We gained a Taoiseach but lost a Dáil seat.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the chance to speak on this legislation. Any chance to engage in constituency reform is to be welcomed, as it gives us a chance to examine how we do business. I object to the manner in which part of south Mayo has been discommoded and detached.

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: I had not wanted to be a teacher up to five minutes ago because, with respect to my colleague, the chairman of the Joint Committee on Education and Skills, there is a lack of understanding of the actual impact of what will happen. I thank Deputy Charlie McConalogue for giving us the opportunity to discuss the issue. This is not about putting 19 people into a classroom where there were...

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: Many of them will have to be cancelled-----

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: -----because of the way the courses are designed, as some of the 500 people whose jobs will be lost will not be in a position to provide the modules for courses that are currently necessary. This is the big danger. We have heard much, particularly from the Labour Party, about discrimination. This is discrimination. This time last year we were talking about the attack by the Labour Party...

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: We have had the usual choir from the Government backbenches about 14 years of nothing happening, but during the time when Deputy Micheál Martin was Minister for Education and Skills this sector was given huge resources and huge independence, which allowed it to be as flexible as it has been.

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: That is why it was so responsive. Today the Government will meet at 2.30 p.m. for a special meeting on the jobs action plan. The only thing that will come out of that meeting is headlines and it will be forgotten about again. I said already this morning that I tabled a parliamentary question to each Minister on what their Departments did in 2012 on the jobs action plan. I have received...

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: Donogh O'Malley would not have attacked DEIS schools and he would not have attacked those seeking to improve their skills. Let us look at the people who use PLC courses. They are people who are taking a second chance - people who may have been out of employment for some time and have decided to follow all the advice, to improve their skills and gain new ones and see where the demand is....

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: When is Fine Gael going to pay for PLC courses again?

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: The Minister of State was a PD. He was the party leader.