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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24570/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (23 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 625. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the options available to him to encourage all cyclists to wear helmets when cycling; if his attention has been drawn to concerns on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24492/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety (23 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 639. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has had discussions with the Health and Safety Authority and Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government regarding progress on the current review under way on aspects of legislation relating to regulation of fairground equipment and funfairs and specific legislative provisions relating to fairground...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Growth (23 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 640. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the way in which export growth to the UK slowed from 12% in 2015 to 2% in 2016 following the Brexit referendum based on the latest Enterprise Ireland figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24562/17]

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

Niall Collins: I thank Dr. O'Sullivan for her presentation. May I offer her an opportunity to reply to the criticism levelled against her report by some of the other presenters that it exceeded the terms of reference which were given in writing? I am interested in Dr. O'Sullivan's comment on that. Some of the larger employers - some of whom were invited to present to the committee but declined - have...

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

Niall Collins: Did the report look at those agreements and how they played out?

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

Niall Collins: Does Dr. O'Sullivan see any place on the landscape for some form of if-and-when type contracts? I am particularly focusing on examples such as a post office in Castletownbere in the Beara Peninsula or a corner shop in some rural community like the ones we all represent. They are businesses, perhaps family-run, that are struggling. They require a degree of flexibility and have people...

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

Niall Collins: I thank Deputy Cullinane for his input. The independent legal experts who appeared before the committee stated that the Bill may be unconstitutional. I presume Deputy Cullinane has read the transcript of previous meetings. Did that register on his radar and, if so, perhaps he would comment on it?

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

Niall Collins: On the six months versus nine months versus 18 months timeframe in terms of banding, business accounts and budgeting are done on an annual basis. It seems to me that 12 months is the norm in terms of the cycle of most businesses. There is not much difference between nine months and 12 months. Why was the nine months timeframe chosen given business norms are 12 months?

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

Niall Collins: I must leave for a Topical Issue debate in a few moments, so I might speak first. The Minister of State's criticism of the Sinn Féin Bill in the first part of his statement has me confused. My understanding of Deputy Cullinane's Bill is that if a worker works an increased number of hours, the Bill provides in legislation that the worker may request his or her contract to reflect those...

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

Niall Collins: Is the Minister of State saying that, based on advice he has received, under the Sinn Féin Bill the employee could simply ask for more hours without actually having to have worked them?

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

Niall Collins: Is that the Minister of State's interpretation?

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: I will be sharing time with Deputies Robert Troy and Mary Butler. Every week, probably even today, repossession courts are sitting across Ireland to hear cases brought by banks and organisations such as vulture funds who have bought loan books. As a result, people are being thrown out of their houses. I have attended such hearings, as have many other Members in their role as...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: Did the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, at any time before or during the collapsed trial that is the subject of this discussion or during the previous collapsed trial raise issues with the Minister directly or with her Department about its capacity or the capacity of the DPP to mount the cases on behalf of the State? Is the Government open to considering extending the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 166 of 16 May 2017, if the ten new apprenticeships planned to commence in 2017 are the first apprenticeship categories to be rolled out under category 1 as identified by the Apprenticeship Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25206/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobs Data (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of internships in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; if there is data available regarding the average internship period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25209/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to update the Civil Service pension scheme for new entrants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25077/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 264. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if an additional €3 million has been allocated by her Department in 2017 to the evolving Brexit scenario; the number of full-time and part-time staff hired since 1 January 2017 under this budget allocation; the amount allocated to each State agency to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25205/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Fund for Strategic Investments (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 265. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies greater than and fewer than 250 employees that have drawn down EFSI funding to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25207/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (25 May 2017)

Niall Collins: 266. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the 2017 budget allocation for InterTradeIreland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25208/17]