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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting and recording equipment, even when left in silent mode. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 32 for the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation which was referred by the Dáil to the committee on 21...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: I thank the Minister. I will start. We will stick with programme A. The Minister explained subhead A..7 very well. Enterprise Ireland has made savings of €24.4 million. The Minister explained where this income has come from, that is, own-resource income. My question concerns Brexit, which will be upon us very shortly. Was any consideration given to directing some of that funding...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: My next question concerns the future growth loan scheme, which I welcome, offering €15 million for new capital provision. As the Minister explained, this will provide low-cost loans of between eight and ten years' duration with no collateral necessary. How long does the Minister expect it will take businesses to be approved for loans under this scheme? Sometimes businesses have to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: Does the Department plan to launch a campaign advertising the future growth loan scheme to bring it to the attention of small and medium-sized enterprises that might not be aware of it?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: My next question is on local enterprise offices. The Minister indicated there is additional capital provision of €470,000 in the Supplementary Estimate. How will this money be allocated in the various offices throughout the country? Will it be dependent on how well they are performing or will it be demand-led?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: I concur with the Minister's sentiments about local enterprise offices, which do a fantastic job. Even when people contact us with an idea, it is fantastic that we can send them to local enterprise offices as it is a one-stop shop that works extremely well. They will signpost where those people should go. Sometimes we are quick to the bad words but in fairness to local enterprise offices,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: To refer back to the ODCE and that high profile trial earlier in the year, I understand the Minister said in the Dáil that, under advice she received from the Attorney General, she can only publish a 30-page document in this regard. Will that be circulated to the committee?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: If members have no further questions, I will ask in regard to programme B. While the relevant Minister is not present, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, might be able to facilitate me. There is an additional capital allocation of €10.74 million for innovation support. I see €8.74 million has been allocated to four bodies, including Trinity College, NUI Maynooth and the Tyndall...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: Thank you. For information purposes, the committee is looking at the whole issue of apprenticeships and the very low number of female apprentices. We had SOLAS before us last week, as well as two apprentices, one a 23-year old woman from Dublin who was a qualified electrician with the ESB. She told us her story and how she decided to go down that route. She studied engineering for six...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: That concludes our consideration of the Supplementary Estimate for 2018 - Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation. I thank the Minister and her officials for attending.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2018 - Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation. Under Standing Order 89(2), the message is deemed to be the report...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: We are all upset and distressed by the horrific images from Yemen and the fact so many children are starving. There are reports that up to 85,000 children may have already died from starvation. Under the budget for overseas aid, is there any capacity to offer humanitarian assistance? Has the Government any response to this crisis?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Dementia Strategy (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: The mid-term review of the national dementia strategy which was launched in May acknowledged that people with dementia and their families were still dealing with inadequate services and supports. Unfortunately, the level of support varies according to one's address. I acknowledge that there is a lot of good work being done, of which there is no doubt. The Alzheimer Society of Ireland has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Dementia Strategy (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: 40. To ask the Minister for Health if the 2019 HSE service plan will provide for new and expanded services for persons living with dementia. [50724/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Dementia Strategy (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: Will the 2019 service plan provide for new and expanded services for people living with dementia?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Dementia Strategy (5 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: Long-term planning is required for the approximately 55,000 people living with dementia and their carers. Population ageing is happening all over the world and Ireland is no exception in this regard. We are all living longer, which is good, but people want to live at home, safe and secure in the knowledge that if they need medical assistance, it will be provided to them. The number of...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: I will briefly speak to the amendment. Regardless of whether the amendment is flawed, a debate on parental notification is important. I was not present at the committee so I did not have the benefit of what other Members heard there. I would welcome clarity on the issue of medical consent. For example, if a young girl below the age of 16 needs an appendicitis operation, she needs parental...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and her officials. Before we begin, I ask members to switch their phones onto flight mode as it is not enough to keep them on silent as that interferes with the recording equipment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: As other members wish to comment, the Deputy can come back in afterwards.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Mary Butler: I wish to clarify that ICTU can nominate two persons and IBEC can nominate one person.