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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Data (29 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 129. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of enterprises here by firm size (details supplied); the percentage in each category as a proportion of total enterprises; and the number of employees in each such firm size category based on the latest CSO data in tabular form. [50041/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Globalisation Fund (29 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 130. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has corresponded with the Minister for Education and Skills regarding whether he has prepared or has completed a formal application to the EU Commission seeking an adaptation to the European globalisation adjustment fund to enable it to ensure exposed enterprises can avail of grant aid due to the economic fallout of Brexit....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (29 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 611 of 20 November 2018, if 340,000 self-employed contributors will be eligible for jobseeker’s benefit when introduced in late 2019; if not, the estimated number of eligible contributors that will join; the reason the number quoted in her Budget 2019 departmental press release...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (29 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending carers and illness benefit to eligible self-employed class S PRSI contributors in 2019; and the full year cost of extending these benefits, in tabular form. [50038/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (29 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount announced in budget 2019 for the urban regeneration and development fund in 2019 to fund a number of initial projects. [50039/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Data (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 52. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the regional spread of additional jobs added in the 12 months to quarter 3 of 2018 indicated by the latest labour force survey. [50767/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Data (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: What are the Minister's views on the regional spread of additional jobs added in the 12 months to quarter 3 of 2018 indicated by the most recent labour force survey? Many of my colleagues tabled the same question with regard to their own counties and constituencies and they were all referred to the Department of the Taoiseach even though their questions were worded the same as mine. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Data (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: We all extend congratulations and concur that there is a buoyant labour market. However, it is sometimes or often outside the control of Government policy which sets down broad parameters. It is then up to business to thrive within them. The Government has an active policy on regional development, but it is failing dismally. I will explain why. In the Border region the employment gain...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Data (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I do not doubt the Minister's commitment. What I am questioning is her ability to implement the commitments she makes. It is clear and evident that she is failing dismally. There are two regions with zero employment growth, namely, the Border region and the mid-west. These regions saw zero growth when we had a boom. The Minister's colleague, the Minister for Rural and Community...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Costs (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 54. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to reduce the excessive sums awarded for whiplash compensation claims in view of the latest data published by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. [50768/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Costs (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I ask the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the steps that have been taken to reduce the excessive sums awarded for whiplash compensation claims in view of the latest data published by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. We are all aware that Ireland is out of step with its European partners. Claims for whiplash in Ireland average around €20,000, whereas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Costs (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: We are primarily talking about people who are making fraudulent claims. There is no doubt that people see whiplash injuries as a soft money-making proposition. As a society and as an Oireachtas we have not challenged this issue at all. We consistently turn a blind eye to the fact that people are scamming in this way and forcing up the cost of insurance. That has profound implications for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Costs (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: We have discussed this issue for a long time. I am not questioning the Minister's bona fides, but the reality is that the pace of progress is lethargic. We only have to look at the Judicial Council Bill 2017 which was only recently sent to the Seanad. It is a key recommendation and an important component. We have been talking about the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017 for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 56. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to publish an account of the investigative failures identified by a person (details supplied); the steps being taken to address them emanating from the trial of a person; and the action points committed to in the report, Measures to Enhance Ireland's Corporate, Economic and Regulatory Framework, published in November 2017....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Since I tabled the question, which asks the Minister what her plans are to publish an account of the investigative failures in a specific case, a synopsis of the report produced by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, has been published. This is not sufficient. Judge Aylmer's report into the collapsed trials provides clear evidence of the failures of the ODCE. A...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: This Parliament is being held in contempt. Rather than publishing the report, the Government is providing an account of a report that was commissioned to assess the reasons the longest criminal trial in the history of the State collapsed. All we know is that Judge Aylmer highlighted several inadequacies. On foot of that report, we commissioned from the Office of the Director of Corporate...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: One does not have to travel far to see the fallout from the collapse of the banking sector. Week in and week out, one can see people being hauled before the repossession courts because they are unable to keep up mortgage repayments. Sometimes they lose their home and, tragically, some of them even lose their lives. At the same time, the longest criminal trial in the history of the State...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: If the Minister gives it to me, I will publish it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: She should publish the advice in that case.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister will do nothing.