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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to maintain the apprenticeship of printing. [24607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to maintain the apprenticeship of book binding. [24608/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the apprenticeships that have been discontinued or amalgamated since 2007. [24609/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget allocation to the Apprenticeship Council in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [24610/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 10 May 2017, the allocated amount on apprenticeship spending in 2016 and 2017; and the projected allocation in each of the years 2018 to 2021. [24612/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 10 May 2017, if the €200 million referred to has been accounted for in fiscal space projections; and the impact of the spend of €200 million on net fiscal space in each of the years 2016 to 2021. [24613/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of guidance counsellors employed in the State in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [24611/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Horses (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received correspondence from Limerick City and County Council regarding the request for his Department to fund the full cost of horse control in County Limerick; if so, his plans to act on this request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24054/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and the presentation. I appreciate it. I also found the report they produced very useful when researching the problem in this area. The report states that zero-hour contracts are unusually prevalent and widely used. However, if-and-when contracts obviously are too and there is an urgent need to address this. That is what the Bill is intended to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I agree with the comments made by the Chairman. Everybody involved in the committee who has listened to the delegates recognises that there is a massive problem with if-and-when and low-hour contracts. I thank Deputy David Cullinane for his Bill which is very progressive. He has come back to what he said on the first day that he was open to amendments. A number of issues were raised by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I come back to a comment the Minister of State made about the additional hours. He said:... all workers in every sector of the economy be given additional hours on request, unless the employer can prove severe financial difficulties. [My problem is with the next bit.] Under this Bill, employees could keep asking for more hours every six months. That is not stated in Deputy Cullinane's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: This has been raised with the Minister of State previously. It was raised in the Dáil last week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I raised this in the Dáil with the Minister of State last week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Workers will not ask for extra hours; they will ask for the hours they have worked already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: They can do that now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I am obviously disappointed that the Minister of State is introducing his own Bill and has decided not to go with Deputy Cullinane's Bill. Deputy Cullinane's Bill stipulates seven bands of hours whereas the Government Bill has four bands. We had extensive consultation with many witnesses. Not one of them raised that as an issue or a problem, changing from seven bands to a lower number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: To reduce the bands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: They work up to seven bands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Or mine.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Records (24 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the dates of death and ages of all of their deceased persons in a community hospital (details supplied) for whom the former health board and HSE have purchased graves and arranged burials in a cemetery since it opened. [24861/17]