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Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Hear, hear.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Colm Keaveney: We are being forced to sell them on this occasion.

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (7 Mar 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected savings from the decoupling of learning support and learning resources from primary schools; the way these savings were calculated; if proper account was taken of extra costs involved in having support and resource teachers travelling to and from schools and for the loss in productivity from the time expended on such...

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Deputy Stanley knows that is the reality.

Job Losses (29 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I recently brought an urgent matter concerning a forced, contested redundancy situation in Galway to the attention of several Ministers, including the Minister for Social Protection and the Minster for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. Rehab Enterprises plans to make 18 employees in its recycling centre in Galway redundant. Only a limited number of employees have indicated that they will...

Job Losses (29 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I am pleased that the Minister has expressed an interest in looking forward to the outcome of Friday's discussions concerning the affected workers. I draw the Minister's attention to the fact that Rehab posted a surplus of €1.9 million in 2009 and a surplus of €2.3 million in 2010. I note the commitment by the Department of Social Protection to the wage subsidy scheme. However, I am at...

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: He did say it.

Written Answers — National Spatial Strategy: National Spatial Strategy (21 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Question 443: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the budget allocation for the spatial policy section, Department of Environment, Community and Local Government; the way staff are assigned to this unit; if he will provide information on the way hub status that was given to Tuam, County Galway, in 2007 will be benefit to it in the short,...

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I am happy to acknowledge some of the achievements in health that are listed at the beginning of the Fianna Fáil motion. However, I cannot help but raise an eyebrow at some of the other content of the motion, one part of which calls for the Government to immediately put in place proper governance structures for the HSE. Has Fianna Fáil forgotten it was only recently in government and it...

Private Members' Business. Health Services: Motion (21 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: That party destroyed this country and sold our economic sovereignty. Yet Deputy Kelleher and his colleagues have the cheek to put forward a motion suggesting that they would reform the Health Service Executive. Their fingerprints are all over the mismanagement and dysfunction of the HSE. The colleague sitting beside Deputy Kelleher earlier was the architect of the executive. Members...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: It is a good document.

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I broadly welcome the provisions of the Finance Bill and what it represents. It is a continuation of the process of the onerous task by the Government parties of returning the finances of the State to a sustainable condition while protecting services and tackling the legacy of chronic unemployment left by the last Government. It is also important in terms of our efforts to regain full...

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: With the publication of the Finance Bill, will the Minister give the House some indication of when we will have an opportunity to discuss the Bill? I note that section 14(6) of the Bill was not included in the explanatory memorandum. This allows for education fees to be paid to employees participating in SARP. Effectively, employers would not have to be charged tax on education fees up to...

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: The parents of Irish citizens are not as fairly treated in the payment-----

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: -----and compared with persons who have already been in receipt of generous tax allowances-----

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: Would the Minister be in a position to clarify when she will have an opportunity------

Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: In a healthy, free and open democracy parliamentary opposition is to be valued. It is a necessity. Governments ought to be kept in check and have their policies scrutinised by the Opposition. In that respect, I welcome the motion tabled by Sinn Féin. One cannot demand that the criticisms of the Opposition always be constructive - that would be unrealistic - but one can hope they would...

Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: I am listening to the Deputy.

Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: What about the hundreds of teachers Sinn Féin is firing in the North?

Private Members' Business. Community Employment Schemes: Motion (7 Feb 2012)

Colm Keaveney: It is Mr. David Cameron's austerity. It is the fault of the Brits.