Results 11,061-11,080 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of research and development tax credits availed of in bands (details supplied) in 2015 and 2016; and the number of firms that availed of same by size. [22476/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of proposals (details supplied). [22477/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of changing the limits in operation for CGT, capital gains tax, reliefs over a full calendar year between assets transferred to children and persons (details supplied). [22478/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has or will be given to the relaxation of the requirement of Irish for primary schools teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22184/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount collected from the national training levy in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the use of this funding by type of course or programme, apprenticeship, traineeship, further education, third level, research and so on; the purpose of the fund; the evolution of its use over the past number of years; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure under the National Training Fund divided between funding allocated to those in employment and funding for those unemployed in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the percentage breakdown of the funding between training for those in employment and those unemployed; the number of participants under the programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the anticipated funding from the National Training Fund that will be needed in each of the years 2018 to 2020; the funded apprenticeship programmes in order to meet the targeted number of registrations for all craft-based and consortia-led apprenticeships as provided under the action plan to expand apprenticeship and traineeship in Ireland...

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

Billy Kelleher: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an analysis was done by his Department of the reason there are low levels of registrations in the construction sector and especially in wet trades for craft-based apprenticeships and in the overall apprenticeship population; and the policy responses he plans to counteract same. [22484/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Motor Insurance Regulation (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress on each action committed to under the cost of motor insurance report published in January 2017; the separate action and the original delivery date as first published in the report; and the actions under her remit in which the delivery date for an action has been missed or changed in tabular form. [22471/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the management training schemes provided to small and medium enterprises and small businesses. [22472/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the management development grants programmes and business appraisal training programmes operating here for small and medium enterprises; the 2018 allocations for the programmes; and the number of participating businesses in tabular form. [22473/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the introduction of the new sectoral employment order, SEO, for the construction sector on 19 October 2017, if State contracts signed by companies following a successful tender award in which the previous SEO was in place and the project costs built into such contracts as a result have to be re-examined following the new...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications received to the recently launched Brexit loan scheme by company size of less than ten, 11 to 49, 50 to 249 and more than 250 employees; the number of applications approved and not approved to date by firm size; and the number of loans granted to date. [22485/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the pay and conditions issues raised by a person at a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22486/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (22 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 8 May 2018, the estimated number of self-employed workers in question based on the latest data at the class S rate of 4% who would be eligible for the benefits (details supplied) if extended. [22475/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Supports (24 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the contingencies in place to safeguard small and medium enterprises and export businesses from a hard Brexit scenario, including revision of state aid rules; if she is satisfied with the level of resource preparedness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22972/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Supports (24 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: What contingency plans are in place to safeguard small and medium-sized enterprises and export businesses from a hard Brexit scenario, including revision of state aid rules? Is the Minister of State satisfied with the level of resource preparedness and will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Supports (24 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. We all accept that the political capital being used by the Government, Parliament and citizens in the context of addressing the border issues on the island of Ireland is of critical importance from a political, cultural, social and economic perspective and all that flows from that. None of us wants any form of border on the island beyond what is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Supports (24 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: We do not want to be argumentative about this. I was in Brussels for the past two days as part of a Fianna Fáil parliamentary delegation to discuss Brexit. We met Commissioner Hogan, the Council and political groupings. There is significant support in Europe for addressing the issue of the Border in the context of the all-island arrangement and the Good Friday Agreement. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (24 May 2018)

Billy Kelleher: We asked two questions. There were no answers.