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Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: The Acting Chairman has been quite tidy for me up to now. The Minister cannot believe the answer he has given. He had a considerable track record going into this Department. We have a 30% youth unemployment rate. The rate in Europe is 23%, the common rate having regard to all labour market conditions in Europe. Therefore, have a serious problem, yet we get more words and verbiage. The...

Other Questions: Youth Unemployment Numbers (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: My question was whether this goes far enough in tackling youth unemployment. Youth unemployment is what I am interested in here. What is being done about it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: It has been nominated to me.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: I have no objection to that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: We all share the Minister's wish to improve the competitive nature of enterprise. The difficulty with the proposal is that the Minister for Social Protection has form. Last year, she pushed through substantial changes to the redundancy rebate payment system. She justified this on the basis of the argument that large companies can afford to make the payment. Nobody disagrees with that but...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: We all agree there is a danger of dependency on illness benefit but the Minister is still dodging the question on the rate in the public sector by comparison with that in the private sector. Is the problem far greater in the former than in the latter? In asking this, I am not pitting one against the other but pointing to the nucleus of the problem. The Minister for Social Protection,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will respond to the continuing concerns of thousands of small businesses here regarding the Minister for Social Protection's proposal for a mandatory sick pay scheme; if he has carried out an impact assessment on the effect that a mandatory sick pay scheme would have on small and medium enterprises in terms of additional costs and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: I thank the Minister for his good wishes. I look forward to working with him. I want to raise a couple of issues arising out of the Minister's response. The Minister has missed his target in terms of the assurance given on passage of the Credit Guarantee Bill 2012 at the end of the previous Dáil term that the scheme would be up and running in quarter three. We are now into quarter...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: Has nothing been learned that the banks are once again being put in the driving seat of a scheme put in place to guarantee the future of small businesses? I do not need to tell the Minister or his officials that small businesses around this country are creaking at the seams. There is hay rolling down streets for the want of access to finance by businesses. The Minister need not bother...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the loan guarantee scheme; when it will be fully operational; the reason for the delay in launching the scheme; the proposed interest rate regime; when he expects it to become operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41821/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the status of a school building project (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41469/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the way in which the jobs plan is creating jobs for the long term unemployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41823/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form a summary of each application received from the Health Service Executive in County Mayo for support from the special delivery unit, to include a summary of the proposal, the amount of money requested, the current status of the application and for those applications under consideration, when a decision will be made; for those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the future management of Mayo General Hospital in the context of his proposed restructuring of hospital groups; the impact of his proposals on services at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41706/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the more than 100% increase in admissions to the accident and emergency unit at Mayo General Hospital between July 2011 and July 2012, the fact that the majority of this increase is due to patients from County Roscommon presenting for treatment at Mayo General Hospital as a result of the curtailment of accident and emergency services at Roscommon...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cycle Network (2 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline in tabular form a summary of each application received from local authorities in County Mayo to construct greenways under the National Cycle Initiative or any other initiative within his Department or any agency thereof, to include a summary of each proposal, the amount of money requested, the current status of the...

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: Whose programme is that?

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: Does the Minister get on with the Tánaiste?

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: The Minister has not answered the questions.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (27 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to tackle the problem of the illegal sale of prescription drugs across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29729/12]