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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Dara Calleary: ...market. Action 1 My Department was originally responsible for the publication of the Action Plan for Insurance Reform on 8 December 2020. The Report detailed 66 actions. Action 2 95% of these actions have now been implemented according to the 4th Implementation Report on the Action Plan for Insurance Reform which was published on 29 February 2024. Previous Implementation...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (27 Feb 2024)

Dara Calleary: The Central Statistics Office compiles statistical data in relation to Goods Exports and Imports. According to the CSO data, the value of our goods imports from Qatar was €4 million in 2023. The value of our goods exports to Qatar was €132 million in 2023. The top goods exports to Qatar from Ireland in 2023 were power generating machines & equipment, essential...

Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (4 Oct 2023)

Dara Calleary: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, to delete lines 8 to 11 and substitute the following: "(b) the cumulative value of the transaction and each transaction between the parties to the transaction, or persons connected with third country undertakings that are parties to the transaction, in the period of 12 months before the date of the transaction is equal to or greater than— (i)...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Regional Development (21 Feb 2023)

Dara Calleary: .... The Deputy will be aware the west regional enterprise plan includes an objective to advance the development of regional entrepreneurship and the innovation ecosystem in the region. Action 5 under the objective focuses on strengthening the enterprise strategy for the strategic development zone at Ireland West Airport Knock. When Deputy Ring was in government he ensured the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (30 Jul 2020)

Dara Calleary: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below   EAFRD Receipts 2010 to 2020 Pillar II Year Programme Amount (in  € millions) RDP 2007-2013 Amount (in € millions) RDP  2014-2020 2010 2013-2007 RDP (Includes Leader) 295 2011 2013-2007...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (30 Jul 2020)

Dara Calleary: ...cuts proposed.  We have protected the CAP Budget for Ireland and successfully reversed the damaging cuts proposed.  I also welcome the inclusion in the EU Multiannual Financial Framework of a significant €5 billion Brexit adjustment Reserve to help those Member States most affected by Brexit.   I welcome the outcome of the negotiations in respect of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (28 Jul 2020)

Dara Calleary: The indicative allocation for the TAMS II scheme over the course of the Rural Development Programme is €395 million. To date, €229 million has been paid across all the available schemes and a further €72m in approvals have yet to be claimed by applicants.  Expenditure is being monitored closely on a weekly basis.   The scheme budget is part of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (21 Jul 2020)

Dara Calleary: Tranche 17 of TAMS II closed on 5 June 2020. Under this tranche 4,952 new applications were received. These applications, together with those rolled over from tranche 16, bring the total number to be considered to 5,430. The process is that these applications must pass the initial administrative checks required and are then subject to the ranking and selection process. Ranking and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Dara Calleary: ...Protection Agency, EPA, shows that Ireland will exceed its climate change emissions targets by up to 6% for 2018, which is the third year in a row we will have exceeded those targets. We are 5 million tonnes in excess of the target to which we all signed up. The bottom line is that emissions are increasing in several sectors. Our climate response seems to be more spin than substance and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (12 Jun 2019)

Dara Calleary: ...bed at Mayo University Hospital even though four beds were available in Belmullet. That is happening all the time. One of the things being cited by HSE management is that the overrun of approximately €5 million in older people's services has to be paid for. Why are the people of Belmullet and Erris having to pay for that? What is the overrun in the acute bed budget because of...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Dara Calleary: ...set the parameters of the entire budget. The confidence and supply agreement is not a document created by spin doctors. It is directly responsible for a wide range of measures, including: the €5 increase in the pension and working-age payments for a second year in a row, targeted packages for the most disadvantaged and a phased reversal of cuts in telephone and fuel allowances;...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I apologise in advance for having to leave early as I have another commitment at 5 p.m. I will start where the Minister finished on the issue of public service pay. He made an announcement this morning of €120 million of extra expenditure and immediately prior to Christmas, there was €50 million expenditure for the Garda deal. There...

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (25 Oct 2016)

Dara Calleary: ...engage with people over the coming weeks before Committee Stage to ensure the scheme will be as advantageous as possible to the first-time buyers who he seems to want to assist? I welcome sections 5 and 27 with provision for a seafarer’s allowance and the decommissioning provisions for the fishing community. I caution, however, that there seems to be a deadline of 2022 with the...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Dara Calleary: ...here would have added gravely to the negative consequences of that decision. In facilitating the formation of the Government Fianna Fáil ensured at a minimum a two-to-one split of the extra money available in the budget for 2017 between investment in public spending and tax reductions. In 2015 the split was 50:50. That means that far more money is available for initiatives in...

Commission of Investigation (Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) Bill 2016: Second Stage (8 Jul 2016)

Dara Calleary: ...importance. The grave impact of the crisis on people's lives must be dealt with fairly. Against that backdrop and that challenge the emergence of rumours and information around the sale of Siteserv in early 2015 drew massive attention. Siteserv was sold by IBRC at a loss to the State of €119 million. The loss to the State was further reflected in other sales by IBRC and...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: .... The lack of urgency of the Government on extending the credit guarantee scheme and constantly long-fingering it, while jobs are being lost as a result, is absolutely exposed when one sees the €5 million that went to the shareholders in an effectively insolvent company. Many SMEs are being told they are not solvent, which is why they are not getting bank credit, and that they...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...answers to questions. That sums up all our collective frustration surrounding this matter. The Government is forcing that model on us even though it was told not to proceed with it after handing out €160 million to consultants. That model is wrong and completely unsuited to Ireland. First of all, it is a company and any company can be privatised. No matter how much the...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...of the different arguments made on this side. Yesterday, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation published a statement announcing that IDA Ireland would invest in creating 13,000 new jobs in 2015. This is what the agency has done for the past two years. As Deputy Tóibín said, this shows a complete lack of ambition and willingness in the Department to push the job...

County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...start-ups, HPSUs, and high technology companies and I fear that the types of company that have previously been supported by county enterprise boards will fall between the cracks. The SLA, section 5 in particular, goes some way towards addressing these concerns, but we should continue to monitor the issue. Not all companies want to be HPSUs. They may just want support in setting up their...

Access to Credit: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2013)

Dara Calleary: ..., regardless of sector or size, provided it demonstrated its creditworthiness. It would remain in State ownership even after the State had sold its stake in the pillar banks. An enterprise bank should have the following features. It should focus on smallscale lending up to €5 million. It would not seek to compete directly with existing banks in a way that would crowd them out,...