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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...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...with getting agreement on the budget at Parliament level? With regard to the capital programme, namely, the programme for research in third level institutions, PRTLI, the outturn for 2012 was €5 million higher than the Estimate and the Estimate for 2013 is €10 million lower than the 2012 outturn. We will probably discuss this again when discussing Science Foundation...

Tourism Promotion. (20 Jan 2010)

Dara Calleary: ...Galway in 2012. The 2009 stopover was strongly supported by the Government, with funding being provided through the international sports tourism initiative operated by Fáilte Ireland. A sum of €5 million was provided in 2008 and a further €3 million in 2009 as part of a special and dedicated Government funding commitment to secure the Irish stopover. The total funding of €8...

Army Barracks (13 Dec 2011)

Dara Calleary: These closures will have potential savings of just over €1 million in direct costs and what the Minister of State defined as an efficiency gain, for which there is no way of quantifying, of €5 million. The costs of moving the barracks and personnel, on the other hand, will involve €4 million in capital costs required in the other barracks. An allowance for soldiers to move will come...

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...

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 — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (12 Nov 2009)

Dara Calleary: ...in key areas such as: - Business Performance and Capacity-building, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Personal Professional Development, Employment Law, and Human Resources. Initially some €10 million was budgeted for the Initiative to train some 8,000 participants. It is currently estimated that approximately €5 million will have been expended on the initiative upon completion, providing...

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)...

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Reform of National Micro and Small Business Support Structures: Discussion (5 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...in respect of the credit guarantee scheme and the microfinance scheme. Under the credit guarantee scheme only ten approved credit guarantees had been issued up to 22 January, representing about €1.117 million. This seems low; is the Minister happy with the scheme? The Minister may not have the information with him, but how many requests were turned down? An issue we raised with...

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 — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (23 Sep 2009)

Dara Calleary: ...8 months. However, to put it in perspective, at end August 2009 the number of Redundancy claims paid by my Department relating to applications received in 2009 and earlier years, amounted to 26,405. This equates to payments of around €179 million, both to employers and, in some cases, directly to employees. This means the Department is issuing an average of around €5 million per week...

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...

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...

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...

Strategic Investment Bank: Motion. (27 Apr 2010)

Dara Calleary: ...long-term and direct labour-intensive employment in the delivery of economically valuable infrastructure. For this reason our Exchequer capital allocation for 2010 amounts to €6.4 billion. At 5% of GNP, our investment programme remains proportionally high by international standards and in comparison to those of the EU-15 member states. Some of the highlights of our capital investment...

Community Pharmacy Services. (5 Feb 2008)

Dara Calleary: .... In recent weeks, I have met pharmacists in my county to examine their audited accounts, which they willingly presented. The current interim contract proposal, which proposes a minimum fee of €5 per transaction, could result in the loss of three jobs in every rural pharmacy in the county. The pharmacists are willing to make their figures available for inspection. Nationally,...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) (No. 2) Scheme 2010: Motion (17 Nov 2010)

Dara Calleary: ...the European Commission. The precise pricing arrangements for the guarantee are set out in the rules to the scheme at Annex 7.By the end of October, a total of €1.3 billion, divided into €760 million in respect of the covered institutions credit institutions financial support scheme and €573 million in respect of the eligible liabilities guarantee scheme, was collected from the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (23 May 2024)

Dara Calleary: ...into the market and prevent fraud. 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...