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- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: The Department did not seek to amend that at any stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: I am finished. I am quite sickened, to be honest.
- An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: I am raising yet again the issue of homecare packages. Three weeks ago I referred to the plight of an 18 year old girl, Hannah Donnelly from Drogheda who has been in hospital for over two and a half years. For the last 19 months she has been in hospital because she has been denied an adequate homecare package. It is three weeks since I raised the case and I have written to the Minister for...
- An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: He is turning a blind eye to an 18 year old girl with Apert syndrome-----
- An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: -----who has been languishing in a hospital bed for 19 months because she cannot obtain a homecare package. Will the Minister intervene and make sure she gets home?
- Child Maintenance: Motion (22 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: I had hoped that this motion would encourage the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to take action on child maintenance. It is unbelievable that the State is yet to establish a dedicated agency for child maintenance. The Government has made a big deal out of saying it will not oppose the motion. Is that not shockingly decent of it? It will be looking for a round of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: To follow up on the Chairman's question, I do not know if the Minister saw the submissions that were made to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: Most of them complained about the Brexit loans. The British Irish Chamber of Commerce, the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, IBEC, and the Small Firms Association, SFA, said, among other things, that they are too restrictive and exclude some of the people who would be most vulnerable in a no-deal Brexit scenario. Chambers Ireland, for example, called for grants for specific...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: Does she have plans to rectify that? The majority of them raised concerns. If there is something that can be addressed or rectified for the people who would be most affected by this, that would be welcome. The Minister said that businesses are reluctant to take up loans given the uncertainty. The uptake thus far is evidence of that. However, if she takes on board the concerns in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: It might be no harm if she did because they are interesting and flag-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: Yes. I am sure the Minister consulted with the different bodies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: Did they not? They must have been shy or something.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: That is strange.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: The Minister should. The British Irish Chamber of Commerce stated that the loans are over-bureaucratic and not worth applying for. That is serious. Businesses do not want to increase debt. Chambers Ireland, IBEC, the Small Firms Association and the ICTU do not have a good word to say about them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: It is important that we forward them and, perhaps, touch base with them. Going through them, none of them has anything good to say about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: If they are to be effective.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: In response to an earlier question, the Minister stated that she has a plan for workers. Is that plan like the employment subsidy scheme to keep people in work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: Would the Minister consider that for small and micro-businesses, similar to what the State did in 2008 in order to keep people in jobs? For example, it would be for small businesses with fewer than 49 employees.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: Did the Minister liaise with other Departments in respect of the employment subsidy scheme, particularly for those in the sectors, for example, the agriculture sector, that are most vulnerable? The transport sector is another of the sectors most likely to be affected, as are companies which export solely to Britain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)
Imelda Munster: Will the Minister consider an employment subsidy scheme?