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

Dara Calleary: 10. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made to date on implementing the report of the Entrepreneurship Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23792/14]

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

Dara Calleary: This question is on the report of the Entrepreneurship Forum, which was published in the usual style, as the Taoiseach arrived and did a press conference, high-fived everyone, and told them they were great. That was on 23 January. It is now five and a half months later and we have had nothing. Will the Minister update us on the implementation of the recommendations and where the report is at?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: We tried to raise it as a Topical Issue matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: We have been pointing out the difficulties with this programme for some time. The Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is currently discussing SME financing and had the pillar banks in a couple of weeks ago. We got the sense that this was an add-on and that the credit guarantee scheme was not being taken seriously. This was something that was there but the banks were not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I have no doubt people have benefited, but €450 million has been budgeted for the scheme. Another scheme I have pointed out to the Minister, which has the support of the joint committee and of many Members in the House, involves crowd or source financing. We have been encouraging the Minister to put a pilot scheme in place. Surely, money is going to waste while we wait for a review...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the operation of the credit guarantee scheme to date; when it will be re-vamped to improve its take up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23850/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: As I introduce my second question of the morning, I ask the Minister to have some respect for the Chamber and to update Members on the Bausch and Lomb issue. We have been trying to raise the matter but it was too late to table a question for this morning's business. It is a serious industrial issue and perhaps the Minister can update the Chamber. With regard to the credit guarantee...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his views on the fall in the rate of growth in employment in the first quarter of the year as highlighted in the quarterly national household survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23849/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: The quarterly household survey published last week showed a dramatic slowdown in the level of job creation. I seek the Minister's views on the matter. I imagine Deputy Tóibín would agree with me in respect of my next question. With leniency from the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I call on the Minister to update the House on the current situation at Bausch and Lomb. We have sought to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: Of the 14 sectors which provide data for the quarterly household survey, a total of nine recorded quarter-on-quarter declines in seasonally adjusted terms, four showed increases and one showed no change. It shows a particularly big hit for under 35 year olds and for the lowest age cohort. The Minister referred to retail. Fully 5,000 jobs were lost in retail in the first quarter. I got a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Data (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: That confidence is not translating through. The difficulty is that people are getting very frustrated when they continue to read about it. There is also difficulty when the chief executive of a job creation agency, a man for whom I have a good deal of regard and an organisation for which I have superb regard, comes out as a rallying agent for pay and wage reductions. That represents money...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Manufacturing Sector (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that is being made towards the goal of increasing employment in the manufacturing sector by 20,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23793/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 122. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in County Mayo will have their full medical card restored in view of the recent announcement that reviews of discretionary medical cards is to be suspended; his views on whether a child suffering Down syndrome should be automatically entitled to a full medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24075/14]

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: We should have a European model which supports local development. It should not be lost for the sake of some tendering rules which are utterly unfair and disregard the success of that model in the first place. The Minister has made an argument concerning administration costs. There have been leaks to newspapers about the salaries of various CEOs, but moving them into county councils will...

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for giving us the opportunity to discuss this issue. There is no need for us to be kicking this around the place, so to speak. Everybody on all sides of the House agrees with the phenomenal success of the community development sector since 1991, when the then Commissioner, Mr. Ray MacSharry, initially rolled out the Leader model which has developed into many...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 86. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 27 May 2014, if he will specifically answer the question regarding a feasibility study for Castlebar; the terms of reference of that study; the precise date on which the study was sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23788/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their outstanding agri-environment payment processed; if he will expedite the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23705/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (4 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that due to staff shortages and cutbacks, District Court lodgments are being made just once a week; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this is affecting the lodgment of maintenance payments to recipients' bank accounts; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that this is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (29 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will revise the budget 2012 changes he introduced for small schools in view of recent comments he made on the need for some communities to retain such schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23377/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (29 May 2014)

Dara Calleary: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his response to the closure of international language schools; the measures he is putting in place to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23378/14]