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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]

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 progress that has been made in examining the potential to establish a national community investment fund to create employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3402/13]

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 his strategy for the construction sector to 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3403/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Insolvency Act (23 Jan 2013)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on developing a new structured non-judicial debt-settlement system in view of the report submitted to him by the Company Law Review Group in September; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3404/13]

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?