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Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: First Stage (1 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have been awarded an increase in rental payments uplifts by county under the housing assistance payment, in 2016 and in January 2017. [10781/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the Coonagh to Knockalisheen road to be operational following his allocation of funding as part of his announcement on 24 January 2017. [10780/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Deering for his presentation. I am substituting for Deputy Pearse Doherty who was unable to make it to the meeting. I am sure the office will need more resources and will be making a request in that regard to the Minister. I note the work of the office thus far on the tracker mortgage issue. While, without doubt, it has been valuable to consumers and so on, some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Mr. Deering also referred in his presentation to the number of complaints received. How many of those were from people who were denied a tracker mortgage? Was that the issue in terms of the bulk of the complaints received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: They made a complaint but it was not upheld.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: A number of people affected by the tracker mortgage issue have raised with many Deputies their concern that where a bank offers as an excuse the loss of documentation, the ombudsman's office has accepted that excuse. Does the office have the power to search the banks in such cases and is Mr. Deering aware of any pattern around missing documentation? In another case, when a complainant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Has that power ever been exercised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: It has also been pointed out to the committee that the PTSB appeal process is a bit of a joke. Does the office have the power to step in if an appeals process is being used as a delaying tactic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: The bureau representatives probably have a better oversight than any of us of the scale and nature of the problem. My final question on tracker mortgages relates to whether the bureau under any obligation to report any of these issues to An Garda Síochána or any other enforcement body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Mr. Deering referenced the motion of my Sinn Féin colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, as well as the Government position on producing legislation to tackle the six-year rule. The Sinn Féin legislation is on Committee Stage. The proposed Government legislation went through pre-legislative scrutiny but we have heard nothing about it since. There are differences in the two approaches....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (7 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 532. To ask the Minister for Health if SuperCheck test strips, as used with the SuperCheck two glucometer, are available free of charge under the long-term illness scheme; if not, his plans to make them available under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11516/17]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: We have a problem with the Bill. We might abstain or oppose but I am not tabling any amendment. Do I have to agree to that now?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Are we agreeing this to go forward or what are we doing? I am still a little confused.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Is it on this section or all sections?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 600. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports issued outside the State in each of the years 1997 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13903/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Meetings (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of meetings and engagements she has had with the Industrial Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland and InterTrade Ireland from June 2016 to date in 2017. [13196/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Scannell for his presentation. I have a number of questions about the review. Why have the terms of reference for the review not been finalised yet? What is the reason for this delay? When will the terms of reference be finalised? How long is the review scheduled to take? Will it be made public? Why close the initiative when the review is ongoing? Why not operate at least...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I am disappointed by Mr. Scannell's response. I do not accept that the Department cannot do a review while the matter is ongoing. That has been done in the case of every project I have ever been involved in or worked with. Companies do reviews all the time. It is unacceptable that Mr. Scannell cannot tell us when the review will take place. Why have the terms of reference not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I wish to return to the first question I asked the witness about the terms of reference and whether they had been finalised. The witness said he did not know and that it would be done in due course. Can we get a commitment that the committee will be given the terms of reference as soon as they are established? In the interim, is the Department prepared to intervene and ensure that...