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Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----coming down the line, there is a huge campaign developing in opposition to that strategy which will again impact negatively on rural Ireland?

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: The Minister needs to use every-----

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----avenue at her disposal to ensure IDA Ireland departs from its current strategy.

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: IDA Ireland is offering the excuse that it cannot go into the boardrooms of potential investors in this country and direct them to come to a specific location. It picks up the representatives of the company when they come to Ireland and brings them to their stated preferred location. IDA Ireland needs to do better. While it can bring them to their preferred stated location, it should offer...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of funding allocated to the programme for research in third level institutions in 2018; and the amount of funding that has been ring-fenced for frontier research. [6292/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: This question requests an update on the allocation of funding for the programme of research in third level institutions. Ireland's ranking in the 2017 Bloomberg innovation index fell. Any underfunding of third level research will ultimately erode our competitiveness. Will the Minister of State give me an update on this?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: Trade unionists, employers and business representative associations state our economic recovery, prosperity and well-being will be put at risk if we do not adequately resource third level funding. Since 2016, there has been a 52% cut in research funding. We need to call the Government to account on this. A fall from €30.4 million to €14 million is a drastic cut. This is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: I am sure the point is not lost on the Minister of State that there are hundreds of Irish researchers actively working overseas, particularly in the UK, who, if they were funded properly in this country, would move back. That is a huge resource we are missing here and we are at a loss because of it. Previously, research funding was allocated through a five-year model. It is now changed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: I do not mean to minimise the issue but it will require more than a hashtag to prepare for Brexit. Let us not boil it all down to a simple hashtag. As I asked the Minister's predecessor, can she give us a firm commitment today that she will put the changing of state aid rules and increasing the ceiling to a sum in the region of €500,000 on the agenda for the next EU Competitiveness...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the contingencies and supports in place to safeguard Irish SMEs and export businesses from a hard Brexit scenario including revision of state aid rules; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6291/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: I was in London three weeks ago with my colleagues, Deputy Donnelly and Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and we met representatives from the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and from an all-party committee in Westminster. It is fair to say that our take-away was that it is pretty shambolic over there, which is not news to us, but it is against that backdrop I wish again to ask the Minister to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: We are aware of the Brexit loan scheme and the fact that there was a number of new staff hires within the agencies and that took longer than it should have taken. In addition, the generating of awareness and preparedness of the SME sector has been poor. InterTradeIreland tells us that 19 out of 20 SMEs do not have a plan to deal with Brexit. That really is a shocking statistic, in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of awareness raising for Brexit business supports provided by her Department and agencies under her remit. [6010/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to reverse Irish business competitiveness deficiencies and making Ireland an attractive location for businesses to locate in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6013/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 50. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she plans to publish an account of the investigative failures identified by a person (details supplied) and the steps that are being taken to address them emanating from the trial of a person. [6011/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 55. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to deal with competitiveness issues as identified by the National Competitiveness Council in its report Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6012/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the local community of a school (details supplied) in respect of the decision of his Department to refuse funding to provide linking corridors and a meeting and parent engagement room in the school; if the matter will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6170/18]

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: I will share time with Deputies Dooley, Aindrias Moynihan and O'Keeffe. The biggest issue in my constituency of County Limerick, and throughout the country at the most recent general election and, I want to emphasise, every day since, is the lack of adequate high-speed broadband connectivity. It is impacting on many communities throughout my constituency in Limerick. If I were to list...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: I will give way to Deputy Smyth.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Apprenticeship Data (6 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 108. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons enrolled in apprenticeships in his Department and State agencies under his remit, by gender, in tabular form; and the detail of each such apprenticeship. [5326/18]