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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I thank the Minister of State for his honesty. I take it that the IDA Ireland savings will not have an effect on any potential foreign investment, although I am sure the Minister will clarify that. Has her Department ever considered introducing multi-annual budgets for the IDA as opposed to an annual budget? It would alleviate the need to divert money from its budget at the end of year...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I acknowledge that the IDA will publish its new plan in the new year and will outline what it wants to do. We all meet representatives of the agency in our constituencies and they often give the same reason for their inability to make important investments. I refer, for example, to Mullingar, where an IDA park lies almost empty. If the €2.1 million was invested there for an advanced...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: Is it accurate to say the Health and Safety Authority is not at its full complement of staff?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: How many posts remain vacant?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: What is the full complement of staff?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I would appreciate it if the Minister could revert to me on that.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: The Minister is acknowledging that she will make changes and increase the CCPC's powers in due course.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: It is not me saying it has inadequate powers but the commission's own staff when it appeared before this Oireachtas committee.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: The Minister said the commission will get any resources it requires to complete the forensic study of the insurance industry. Has it indicated a timeframe on reporting on the completed study?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: The commission has not given any timeframe. The Minister can appreciate that this matter is crippling many small businesses.
- OECD Report on SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Ireland: Statements (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute and thank my colleague, Deputy Michael Moynihan, who pushed it at the Business Committee to ensure the OECD report would be debated here. I welcome the Minister’s statement that she is going to start listening to SMEs. She acknowledged that she felt they have not been listened to and said she will extend the red carpet to them. It is worthy...
- OECD Report on SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Ireland: Statements (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: We can go back to the Official Report of the Dáil. The Minister said months. This Government may not have months to publish this. It is coming belatedly, after nine years in government and failure to produce a comprehensive strategy. Many pre-budget submissions by ISME and SFA have called for reform of our research and development regime. The OECD report points out that between 2011...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: That is because the Government would not bring it into the Seanad.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: The Taoiseach only brought the Bill to the Seanad to make the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, happy.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Governance (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress to date in tabular form regarding each of the action points made in the report Measures to Enhance Ireland’s Corporate, Economic and Regulatory Framework, published in November 2017; if each such action point has been completed, not completed or is ongoing, respectively; and the revised deadlines for action points not delivered by...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a scheme to provide for occupational pensions for school secretaries and caretakers who are paid by their board of management from grants. [51185/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for an additional school building will be expedited. [51624/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for capital building works by a school (details supplied). [51813/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Corporate Governance (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: 256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in tabular form for each of the action points made in a report Measures to Enhance Ireland’s Corporate, Economic and Regulatory Framework, published in November 2017; if each such action point has been completed, not completed or is ongoing, respectively; and the revised deadlines for action points...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Corporate Governance (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date in tabular form regarding each of the action points made in the report Measures To Enhance Ireland’s Corporate, Economic And Regulatory Framework, published in November 2017, for which her Department had lead responsibility for implementation; if each such action point has been completed, not completed or...