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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister and his officials. There is a great deal of motherhood and apple pie about all this. It is like the end-of-term report that many children will soon receive. I will focus on certain areas and outline what I would have said had I written the report. On the third country specific recommendation, can the Minister outline the Government's specific plans to reform our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his view on whether changes to the school transport scheme, introduced in 2012-13, are causing undue hardship to students in the Castlehackett and Corrandrum areas of County Galway; his view on whether it makes no sense that concessions previously given are now being withdrawn; his view on whether it makes no sense that these rules now mean...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the health and safety supports that are available to teachers in one-teacher schools, in view of the number of schools that will be in position owing to his 2011-2012 budgetary decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24352/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will instruct departmental officials to immediately process an emergency works applications for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24780/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 369. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline his views on whether a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, a national broadband scheme customer, is not receiving an adequate service for the premium; if he will outline the download and upload speeds as recommended by the national broadband scheme provider 3 guidelines; his views on whether the person...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the current agreement on cattle exports to the UK; if he is satisfied that enough is being done to promote this trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24405/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if discretionary medical card applicants who had their cards removed upon review in the past two years will now have those cards restored in view of the recent announcement that reviews of such cards are to be suspended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24087/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 572. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) can be re-registered on the long-term illness scheme. [24796/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) retained an additional allowance in respect of their chairmanship of a State body, which is paid to them over and above their salary as CEO of another State body; if the retention of that additional allowance was in breach of Government pay policy; if such payment was required as a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Procurement Regulations (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that CIE has introduced new procurement rules which will restrict small companies from tendering for work with CIE group companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24407/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a sports capital grant in respect of a club (details supplied) in County Mayo. [24588/14]

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: No.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: To return to the issue we just discussed, the danger of an interdepartmental working group is that it drags on and given the complexity of the work at hand, it may drag on beyond the recess. Will the Minister give a commitment that the Minister for Justice and Equality will come into the House within two weeks to give an update on the work of that group and on its findings and that the...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: What about mediation between Ministers?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, announced here yesterday evening that some people who have lost their discretionary medical cards will now have them returned. It is still not clear whether all people will have them returned and the process for return has not been clarified. This is a particularly dramatic U-turn for this Government, particularly when its members all spent 18 months denying...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: Can the Minister outline his response to the suggestion, which has been made off the record, that he is the block to a resolution? Second, with this debacle in mind, and granted that he has an overseeing role in the Department of Health, can he express full confidence in the Minister, Deputy Reilly's ability to continue his job as Minister for Health?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: What?

Leaders' Questions (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: That is an extraordinary response from the Minister. The Cabinet, according to the Minister, Deputy Noonan, had a long discussion on medical cards - as did all of the Members' parliamentary parties. Some 16,000 discretionary medical cards were cut from January 2013 to April 2014. That is a cull in any language. Those are discretionary cards taken from people in the case I described, taken...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He can imagine the frustration of business people and entrepreneurs who are successful, who have created jobs, who have taken the risk and who put their valuable time, which they do not really have, into producing a report. The report was presented in a clear and cogent manner and there is no rubbish associated with it. However, they now are...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Jobs (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: While I genuinely acknowledge the Minister of State's response, the greatest threat to entrepreneurship is an interdepartmental committee. Any sense of entrepreneurship or ambition tends to get parked and choked within such a committee. Were there a commitment that this matter is being dealt with and led at ministerial level and that the Minister of State, together with the Minister, Deputy...