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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Horses (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: 364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of prosecutions since January 2013 in respect of the failure of owners to chip their horses, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43759/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: Apologies have been received from Senator Garvey. The first item on the agenda is scrutiny of EU proposals under Schedule A. We are required to make a formal decision on this. It is proposed that COM (2020) 682 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union, which we have already discussed, does not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: Today I am pleased that we are able to discuss the introduction of statutory sick pay. The importance of this issue became apparent at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. I am pleased that we are joined remotely today by representatives of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association. From ICTU we have Ms Patricia King, general secretary,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Ms King and invite Mr. McDonnell to make his brief opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I now invited members to discuss the issue with witnesses. We have a roster system and the first person is Deputy O'Reilly who is joining us remotely. She has seven minutes, or does she want to share time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I remind Deputy O'Reilly and members that they can have additional time if they want in the second round. The next person in the Sinn Féin slot is Senator Paul Gavan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I ask the ICTU representatives to be very quick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I ask Dr. Bambrick to be quite quick because there is not much time left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: Does Dr. Bambrick want to answer that one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Introduction of Statutory Sick Pay: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Dr. Bambrick. That concludes our consideration of the matter today. I thank the representatives from ICTU, Ms Patricia King and Dr. Bambrick, and from ISME, Mr. Neil McDonnell, for assisting the committee today in this important matter. We look forward to giving this further consideration as soon as we possibly can. I thank them for attending today. The next meeting of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (17 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018 is important legislation. We met a couple of months ago and we discussed it briefly. If it is delivered, it could have a real impact on the issue of so-called white collar crime, or more aptly, economic crime. I look forward to the Bill coming before the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment in the new year. A fully...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (17 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply and his comments. I am delighted he has met the director of the ODCE. I am pleased that it was a constructive meeting. I take this opportunity to advise the Minister of State that I have invited the Tánaiste and the director to attend the first possible meeting of the joint committee in January. I hope that will happen. We want to meet the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Corporate Governance (17 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: I would like to put on the record my thanks for the work done by the former Chairman of the committee, Deputy Butler, now Minister of State at the Department of Health, to try to progress this Bill. There were a number of legal and other reasons that did not happen. Hopefully, it will happen next year. We are in broad agreement on the need for structural change to the ODCE. We all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: In part of the Ceann Comhairle's review of 2020 he told us how bizarre the world was. Bizarre was having the all-Ireland final in December. I congratulate the Limerick team on winning. It gave joy to everybody in Limerick and our diaspora across the world and, because of the amazing team it was, to all hurling fans everywhere. I want to raise the issue of the Coonagh to Knockalisheen...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I have raised the issue of University Hospital Limerick with the Minister on a number of occasions. I raised it in the previous Dáil at every opportunity. Unfortunately, there is an ongoing trolley crisis at the hospital, with 66 patients on trolleys there as we speak. In light of the alarming rise in Covid cases in my home city of Limerick, I am again really concerned about...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jan 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1056. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a wait time of three years for a person (details supplied) to obtain a cystoscopy examination at Nenagh Hospital. [1650/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jan 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1057. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the wait time in excess of 12 months for a person (details supplied) to get a hip replacement procedure at Croom Hospital, Limerick. [1651/21]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: This motion is about fairness and respect for student nurses and midwives. We have systemic understaffing in the health service. This predates Covid, but Covid has exacerbated the difficulty. Nowhere is this problem more evident than in my local hospital, University Hospital Limerick, UHL, in the constituency of Limerick City. Twice so far in 2021 we have had 66 patients being treated on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jan 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: The programme for Government states, "We will continue to invest in new roads infrastructure to ensure that all parts of Ireland are connected to each other." I do not expect the Taoiseach to know about every single road across the State, but in my constituency of Limerick there is a road of which he should be aware of, namely, the Coonagh to Knockalisheen road. I ask the Taoiseach to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion
General Scheme of an Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill
Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion General Scheme of an Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill (22 Jan 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank all members and witnesses for participating in today's committee meeting in line with the exceptional measures we must take. Apart from myself and members of the committee secretariat, all members and witnesses are participating remotely. Apologies have been received from Deputy James O'Connor and Senators Róisín Garvey and Marie Sherlock. Today I am pleased the...