Results 801-820 of 4,764 for speaker:Maurice Quinlivan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: There are four of us from Limerick on the committee and we think it might be no coincidence as to why we are doing so well. We will keep it up anyway. To come back to the data centre issue, will a new Bill be brought forward to progress the idea of strategic investment? Obviously, we will be changing the planning laws. Is it a good idea to call data centres strategic investment? I do,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: Would IDA Ireland like any other categories to be classified strategic?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: I want to discuss regional disparities. All Deputies continually mention the number of site visits made by IDA Ireland and how some counties get more visits. Limerick has done well over recent years. I remind the Minister that eight out of the ten unemployment blackspots are in Limerick city and 17 of the 79 unemployment blackspots in Limerick are still in the city. I remind her that not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: No.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: My question also relates to the Brexit loan scheme, for which funding of €14 million is to be received from the Minister's Department and €9 million from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, giving a total of €23 million. Why is that money included in the Supplementary Estimate? Will it be allocated before the end of the year or will it made available be...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: Is it intended that the €23 million to be allocated from the two Departments will be issued as loans or used to promote the scheme or for infrastructure around the scheme?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: I understand that, but will some of the €23 million be used to fund loans or deal with matters related to the organisation of the scheme?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: On Science Foundation Ireland, the Minister referred to a figure of €10.6 million. I express my gratitude to and support for the foundation and its work. If I am correct, the €10.6 million is for two pieces of cutting edge equipment. What is it and why is it so expensive? Is it normal?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: As such, it does not cover just two pieces of infrastructure.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: Are we moving on?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: I have a query about subhead C7 - Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. It is an issue I have raised a number of times. I have a problem with the way it is run in some ways. I have detailed my problems with the work of the ODCE and the committee has agreed to examine it early in 2018. We are inviting the Minister to come to discuss it. Taking back €750,000 from the...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: I express my concern that they did not spend what they had when it was not enough in the first place.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Maurice Quinlivan: The concern is there are no staff.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (12 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: 87. To ask the Taoiseach the value of trade in goods between Ireland and Britain in 2016; and the estimated amount for 2017. [52861/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (12 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: 88. To ask the Taoiseach the value of trade in services between Ireland and Britain in 2016; and the estimated amount for 2017. [52862/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (12 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: 89. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Irish companies exporting to Britain in 2017. [52863/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (12 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: 90. To ask the Taoiseach the number of companies exporting from Britain to Ireland in 2017. [52864/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (12 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: 91. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated number of Irish businesses engaged in trade with Britain in 2017; and the estimated number of employees employed by these companies. [52865/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the estimated cost of abolishing apprenticeship fees for 2018. [53098/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (12 Dec 2017)
Maurice Quinlivan: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 7 November 2017 to outline the way in which the cost of an apprentice per annum is calculated. [53099/17]