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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Employment Initiative (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 1 May 2018, the specific schemes or areas that will be financed by the funding available through the youth employment initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22103/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available to Kildare County Council to establish an apprenticeship training school in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22711/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Compensation Schemes (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in cases of historical sexual abuse in which a prior complaint cannot be established but the perpetrator has been convicted of the crime, survivors of this abuse will be compensated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22714/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Applications (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: 390. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received orthotic shoes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22288/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22712/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: 520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the viability of a Dublin orbital paratransit service has been considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22713/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: 555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of the wage subsidy scheme in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of workers supported by the scheme in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22104/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: I will start by thanking my colleagues on the Joint Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation for the invitation to present the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017. I introduced the Bill in response to the public's ongoing frustration at ticket touting. Almost every time tickets for a match or concert go on sale, the media coverage is dominated by frustrated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: When we talk about "bots", we are talking about online sites that hoover up tickets when they go on sale. They take quite a number of tickets, so they will not be available to genuine fans when they go on sale. This Bill would probably not solve that completely but it would tackle it. If we take the profit out of the ticket, then the need for the "bots" is probably diminished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: As we researched this, we found the danger is that secondary sites are often selling tickets they do not have. They are gambling that they will be able to get those tickets and then sell them on at a profit. It is not sustainable and there needs to be legislation. Ed Sheeran was mentioned. I commend him again. He has made the best effort he could but it did cause some problems where a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: -----that was bought genuinely for a cousin or friend. We have all had the problem where we buy tickets in good faith in advance and then, a good number of times, something like a family event comes up and it is not possible to go. We need to make provision for that. I also understand that some people bought five or six tickets to Ed Sheeran and then the secondary person had to turn up to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yes, it has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is referred here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is my submission?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: I do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: We looked at that and changed it twice before we published the Bill. We are saying that it will be an offence. If gardaí suspect that tickets are being sold, they will have the power to go into a property and confiscate the tickets. Is that what the Chair was asking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Bill aims to give the gardaí extra powers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: If they believe a breach of the law has taken place or is taking place. It has also been claimed that criminal gangs are involved in this and are benefiting from this because of a lack of legislation in the area. We have a concern about that. I believe these powers are both needed and are proportionate for that reason. That is why it is in the Bill.