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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 143. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation following the announcement in budget 2020 of a transformation fund of €8 million for a no-deal Brexit scenario, the details of the monetary amount that will be provided according to financial instruments (details supplied) in tabular form. [42375/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 144. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation following the announcement in budget 2020 of a transition fund of €45 million for a no-deal Brexit scenario, the details of the monetary amount that will be provided according to financial instruments (details supplied) in tabular form. [42376/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Capital Expenditure Programme (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 145. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the announcement in budget 2020 of a €10 million allocation to the disruptive technologies innovation fund, if this allocation will comprise new capital funding; and if not, if there will be a rollover of existing unused capital expenditure from the 2019 allocation to the scheme into 2020. [42377/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 146. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the allocation in budget 2020 by her Department to the Brexit working capital and future growth loan schemes. [42378/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 147. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the fall of the position of Ireland in the 2019 WEF competitiveness rankings. [42379/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 150. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the introduction of a merchant's incentive scheme to grant small businesses easier access to point of sales terminals will be examined; and when the new digital strategy will be completed and published. [42494/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research Funding Data (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 151. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding allocated to the programme for research in third level institutions in 2020. [42499/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if a refund can be provided to a person (details supplied) who has had to incur substantial medical costs as a result of a protracted wait on the public waiting list for treatment. [42406/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 198. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a partial BPS payment will issue to a person (details supplied). [42532/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of progress towards facilitating digital payments acceptance in taxis and public transport providers; and the timelines for meetings deadlines committed to in this area. [42495/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2020 (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to changes in budget 2020, the estimated cost of extending carer's and illness benefit to eligible self-employed class S PRSI contributors in 2021; and the first year and the full year cost of extending these benefits in tabular form. [42496/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2020 (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated take-up in the first full year of extending carer's and illness benefit to eligible self-employed class S PRSI contributors. [42497/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of self-employed contributors who will be eligible for the jobseeker’s benefit when introduced in late 2019 and over a full year; the estimated number of eligible contributors who will avail of the benefit in late 2019 and over a full year; the cost of extending the benefit in late 2019; the...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: I wish to share time with Deputies Ó Cuív and Murphy O'Mahony, who might arrive shortly.

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: Fianna Fáil has tabled an amendment to the motion. We will not take any lectures from Sinn Féin regarding our commitment to the minimum wage.

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: We are the party who introduced the legislative basis for the minimum wage in 2000 and, more recently, through the confidence and supply agreement in 2019, we ensured the implementation of the restrictive use of the zero-hour contracts. I recall as an Opposition Deputy between 2011 and 2016 when we had little influence and people on the opposite side of the House who had long promised the...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: No, that is not so. If the Minister and the Government were to accept Deputy Michael McGrath's Bill, we could force a reduction in variable interest rates, something the Government has restricted and failed to adopt. Some 10,000 people have become homeless during the time this Government has been in office. I was dealing with the case of a man who phoned me from Kinnegad. He is working...

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: Yes. Can I come back in?

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: Standing up for workers' rights is not incompatible with seeking to ensure that we have a fair balance, and there is no irony lost there. It is important that we have legislation that protects workers' rights while also being cognisant of the need to achieve the protection, retention and creation of jobs. If there are no jobs in the market, there is no need to worry about workers' rights...

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: There is some agreement in terms of what we are trying to achieve. I apologise for the typographical error in the amendment. Under the rules there is a facility to change that. It should refer to "parent's leave" as opposed to "parental leave" because they derive from two different tranches of legislation. I thank the Minister of State for pointing that out. The Minister of State...