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Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----to locations outside the main population centres and sell these locations-----

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----because with the national planning framework-----

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----coming down the line, there is a huge campaign developing in opposition to that strategy which will again impact negatively on rural Ireland?

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: The Minister needs to use every-----

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----avenue at her disposal to ensure IDA Ireland departs from its current strategy.

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: IDA Ireland is offering the excuse that it cannot go into the boardrooms of potential investors in this country and direct them to come to a specific location. It picks up the representatives of the company when they come to Ireland and brings them to their stated preferred location. IDA Ireland needs to do better. While it can bring them to their preferred stated location, it should offer...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of awareness raising for Brexit business supports provided by her Department and agencies under her remit. [6010/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to reverse Irish business competitiveness deficiencies and making Ireland an attractive location for businesses to locate in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6013/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 50. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she plans to publish an account of the investigative failures identified by a person (details supplied) and the steps that are being taken to address them emanating from the trial of a person. [6011/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 55. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to deal with competitiveness issues as identified by the National Competitiveness Council in its report Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6012/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the local community of a school (details supplied) in respect of the decision of his Department to refuse funding to provide linking corridors and a meeting and parent engagement room in the school; if the matter will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6170/18]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (8 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Health the extra support that will be provided to University Hospital Limerick in 2018 to reduce waiting times for a first-time appointment to see a neurologist in view of the fact that 418 persons had been waiting more than 18 months for appointments at the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6421/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprenticeship registrations in each employment sector and subsector on an annual basis in each of the years 2014 to 2017 for craft based apprenticeships, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7497/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 314. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the national and regional job targets under the programme for Government and Enterprise 2025 in each of the years 2016 to 2020; the latest quarterly national household survey data; the most recent figures for these targets in each region; the job targets up to 2020 on an annual basis, by region, in tabular form; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 315. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the review of the work permits regime; and the criteria that apply. [7496/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will discuss with HSE management the need to ensure regular attendance by a HSE representative at the meetings of a board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6832/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if the criteria for the availability of the Versatis patch can be reviewed in view of the number of persons who require same as in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7161/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 403. To ask the Minister for Health when the FEMPI cuts imposed on medical general practitioners will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7128/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: On the programme for Government commitment to protect homeowners, it is fair to say that the Government stood back from NAMA when it sold distressed loans to vulture funds and it also stood back from the non-Irish banks when they sold their distressed loan portfolios. We have seen the fallout and carnage of that in terms of how people were dealt with by the vulture funds, which are...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: I have been contacted by people from my constituency who are engaged in farming and business and who are homeowners. It was stated earlier that we just have to step back and allow the banks to repair themselves.