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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (21 Jan 2014)
Seán Sherlock: 631. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and fill the vacancy in the early intervention team in north Cork of a psychological therapist (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2646/14]
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: Deputy Lawlor raised the point.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: I can wait until he comes back.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: I will wait until he comes back.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: The Government remains committed to the vision of using research and innovation to generate jobs and growth. That is the fundamental philosophy underscoring our efforts in this area. The 2014 science and technology programme budgets have been maintained at the 2013 levels, which will support this goal. Within the constraints of our economic circumstances, we are maximising the funding...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: If I understood the question correctly, it related to the various programmes that exist across the institutes of technology, through Enterprise Ireland and so on. There is significant potential under Horizon 2020. The negotiations on the €80 billion package were concluded during the Irish Presidency, an effort to which the team that is behind me today was integral. Through...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: We have put in place a technology transfer strengthening initiative, TTSI programme, which is funded through Enterprise Ireland, and there are technology transfer offices within the individual organisations. The national intellectual property protocol deals with how industry engages with academia in terms of collaborations and how it mines that intellectual property. There should not,...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: It costs nothing for the owner of a business to contact his or her local institute of technology or technology gateway centre. I have with me the Technology Centre Expo 2013 booklet, which acts as a very good guide to the technology centres that exist within the institutes of technology, for example. Those centres are natural gateways for industries involved in a range of sectors, from the...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: People's experience with regard to innovation vouchers will be different. If a voucher is not working in a way that suits a particular company that is trying to drive innovation and if it is agreed, in principle, that there is scope for new innovation, then one would argue that Enterprise Ireland's suite of supports should be bought to bear in respect of that company in any event. I accept...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: Yes, but one could argue that we do not necessarily want the institutes of technology or the universities to see this as a revenue stream.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: Is the Deputy referring to Horizon 2020?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: The Government, through Science Foundation Ireland, has effectively done a deal with industry whereby it will provide €100 million in funding and the taxpayer will provide €200 million to facilitate the roll-out of research centres. The work at one of those centres specifically relates to marine renewable energy. This will be a world-class research facility.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: We are also involved in the European Commission's Atlantic strategy, which was launched by Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn and the Taoiseach. This strategy relates to evaluating the Atlantic's potential in the context of renewable energy and would involve countries collaborating with each other. I take the point that has been made. There are knowledge and innovation communities and various...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: The system in Ireland is based on academic institutions. There are other models like the Fraunhofer model in Germany which act as stand-alone entities. We have the Tyndall National Institute but it is aligned to an academic institution. I am not sure how to answer the Deputy's question other than to say that if a company is innovative and arguably has a relationship with a State agency,...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: We are a small country.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: What is the Deputy suggesting? I do not understand what she is suggesting.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jan 2014) Seán Sherlock: If one looks at Food Health Ireland, one will see there is an alignment to a number of academic institutions. The reason why it works here is because we have cross-collaboration between different academic institutions. There can be more than one academic institution mapped on to a theme, which is normally the case. If one looks at Teagasc in Moorpark or Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (23 Jan 2014)
Seán Sherlock: The Government is committed to the reform of the State's existing workplace relations services. The system that developed during the past 80 years has become unwieldy and complex and is no longer fit for purpose. There was universal acceptance of the need for a root and branch reform of the existing structures. The Minister's objective is to deliver a world-class workplace relations...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (23 Jan 2014)
Seán Sherlock: I accept the Deputy's point. Reforming a complex system takes time, but we are committed to that reform and the associated legislative process. From a public service delivery point of view, we must consider the situation as it stands. Prior to 2012, there were more than 100 possible first instance complaints involving 30 complaint forms which could be lodged with five separate bodies. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (23 Jan 2014)
Seán Sherlock: I assure the Deputy that drafting is under way.