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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs (Resumed): Credit Review Office and Chambers Ireland (6 May 2014)

John Lyons: As we know, many of the businesses in question employ just a few people and might not have the time to follow up looking for such information. Access to information on supports and finance online would make it easier for them.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (7 May 2014)

John Lyons: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the office of Government procurement will place a greater emphasis on long-term benefits to the economy when awarding procurement contracts; if this can include the benefit of job creation to local communities and the benefits to smaller companies from splitting contracts between several companies. [20439/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (7 May 2014)

John Lyons: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the office of Government procurement will give further consideration and assistance to groups of smaller Irish companies bidding for procurement contracts as a group due to the benefits to the Irish economy and local job creation arising from such contracts. [20440/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Contracts (7 May 2014)

John Lyons: 110. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role his Department has in supporting Irish companies in bidding for public procurement contracts; if small and medium enterprises in particular are being offered support in grouping together to make joint bids for contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20443/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (7 May 2014)

John Lyons: 111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the implementation of the small business innovation research pilot programme announced in the Action Plan for Jobs 2014; and if local authorities are being encouraged to make full use of the scheme. [20444/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations Issues (7 May 2014)

John Lyons: 112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the proposed revised legislative framework regarding registered employment agreements following publication of a draft framework document in February 2014 and subsequent consultations with stakeholders. [20455/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Procurement Contracts (7 May 2014)

John Lyons: 140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if guidelines, circulars or directives will be issued to local authorities to ensure Irish companies are always considered before any local authority procurement contracts are awarded; and if greater consideration will be given to the benefits to local communities in terms of job creation arising from such...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Procurement Contracts (7 May 2014)

John Lyons: 141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities will be issued with new guidelines in awarding procurement contracts for library schemes whereby Irish companies are actively encouraged to submit bids for contracts and are given every consideration before contracts are awarded. [20442/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement (8 May 2014)

John Lyons: I raise a particular matter in relation to the overall housing crisis and Ballymun families who are trying to find accommodation within the Ballymun area. The Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007 introduced a provision whereby regenerated areas could be exempted from the delivery of rent supplement to those who wished to apply in them. In 2008 a circular issued from the Department of Social...

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement (8 May 2014)

John Lyons: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive response. In case anyone takes me up the wrong way, I am not asking for the rent supplement ban to be removed because that is not the right decision. The regeneration of Ballymun was about trying to create a social mix. We have an anomaly whereby people in Ballymun who cannot find a place to live but who can identify places in Ballymun where they...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (8 May 2014)

John Lyons: 98. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the implications for the PRSI system from the introduction of universal health insurance; if citizens will continue to pay PRSI in the same fashion when UHI is introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20635/14]

Open Adoption Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2014)

John Lyons: As this is a Private Members' Bill, it must, under Standing Orders 82A and 118, be referred to a select or special committee. The relevant committee is the Select sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs.

Report on the General Scheme of the Gender Recognition Bill 2013: Motion (9 May 2014)

John Lyons: The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is being held over two weeks from 5 May and one of the plays is called "Eirebrushed". It was written by Mr. Brian Merriman of the Equality Authority and runs from 5 to 10 May, which means that Members have one more day to get to see it, if they have not seen it already. I went to see it on Monday night. It examines four heroes of the 1916...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (13 May 2014)

John Lyons: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify with the Revenue Commissioners the reason residents in certain estates (details supplied) who were issued with an unfinished housing estates waiver for the household charge in 2012 are now being issued with non-payment letters from the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will instruct the Revenue Commissioners to make contact with the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (13 May 2014)

John Lyons: 337. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department is aware of reports that former Dublin Airport Authority workers who are deferred members of the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme residing in the UK will be given protection of their full pension entitlements; if her Department will examine this issue and clarify the reason a similar arrangement could not be introduced for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (13 May 2014)

John Lyons: 449. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department will clarify that certain estates (details supplied) were issued with unfinished housing estates waivers in 2012 in respect of the household charge; and if his Department can communicate this information to the Revenue Commissioners as householders are being issued with non-payment letters from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (13 May 2014)

John Lyons: There are four Schedule A proposals for decision. COM (2014) 186 is a proposal for a regulation on personal protective equipment. The proposal will replace existing law and align it with the new legislative framework. The Department is in favour of the proposal which will assist operators and ensure consistency in standards for products across the European Union. It is proposed that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (13 May 2014)

John Lyons: It is agreed that these proposals warrant further scrutiny and a date will be arranged in the coming weeks to address them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: (Resumed) ISME, IBEC and SFA (13 May 2014)

John Lyons: The next item on the agenda is our resumed discussion of access to finance for SMEs. I welcome Mr. Mark Fielding from the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises to discuss the matter. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the joint committee. However, if they are directed by it to cease giving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: (Resumed) ISME, IBEC and SFA (13 May 2014)

John Lyons: I thank Mr. Fielding for his open and frank statement.