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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (2 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: 368. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the nature of any contact she has had with a company (details supplied) and the Mandate trade union regarding industrial action involving pre-1996 worker contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10937/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Data (2 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: 369. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the unemployment figures for Waterford city and county, with a comparison with the figures nationally; and the steps she will take to further create jobs in Waterford. [10938/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Data (2 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: 370. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the unemployment figures for the south east, with a comparison with the figures nationally; and the steps she will take to create further jobs in the south east. [10939/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Gender Equality (2 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: 371. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to address issues pertaining to the gender pay gap between men and women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10940/17]

Traveller Ethnicity: Statements (1 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: First Stage (1 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Protection of Employees (Collective Redundancies) Bill 2017: First Stage (1 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for protections for employees in collective redundancy situations in which the employer is insolvent and to provide for related matters. As the Taoiseach is aware, I have proposed five Bills to enhance the rights of workers in the State. I have moved two of those on Second Stage during Private Members' time but both...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Qualifications Data (1 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 7 December 2016, the reason for the delay in supplying the information requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10653/17]

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with Deputy Michael Quinlivan. I welcome the Bill. I commend the author of the Bill and also the Labour Party for bringing it forward. I take the opportunity to thank the Labour Party Members for the support they gave my party for Bills we brought forward on workers' rights. The Bill rights a wrong that has continued for quite some time. It will allow trade unions once...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I wish to extend sympathy to the family of Peter Mathews on behalf of myself and my party. I echo the comments made by my colleague, Deputy Calleary.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I welcome Professor Lane, Mr. Dalton and their colleagues. I would love to say they brought clarity; however, I have more questions now than I had before they came in. I do not think this will be on the 6 p.m. news either. There is concern about measurements, given what happened in recent times when we had headline figures for leprechaun economics which created real problems. There was a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: This bespoke measurement, according to Professor Lane, is "the publication of an adjusted indicator of the size of the economy, GNI*, which would subtract from GNI both the retained earnings of re-domiciled firms and adjust for the depreciation of foreign-owned domestic capital assets". What standing does any of these bespoke measurements have internationally? The international measurements...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: It is not so much that they understand them but how they use the figures and which ones they will use and apply in calculating, for example, the fiscal space.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I acknowledge Professor Lane's response. I note what he says that, whether it is the European Commission, the European Central Bank or otherwise, when they look, for example, at the debt-to-GDP ratio, there may be a footnote that when one takes GNI* into account, the position might be somewhat different. The point is that the fiscal rules are worked out on the basis of the debt-to-GDP...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: Could Mr. Dalton respond to some of the observations?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Designation (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the proposal for band 1 status submitted by a school (details supplied); the reason the school was not reassigned band 1 in the recent changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9834/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Court of Human Rights Rulings (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: 828. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the plans his Department has in place to reflect in law the European Court of Human Rights ruling ECHR 280 (2014) which found that the blanket ban on trade unions within the armed forces is a violation of Article 11, freedom of assembly and association, of the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I assume the proposal the HSE has made is in the context of the cost comparisons between public and private facilities. I have no difficulty with it. I think it is a good idea for us to visit any one of the public ones but if that is the case should we also, on the basis of balance, visit a private facility?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: I am sorry. I was not paying attention.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: That is okay. Yes.