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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Grant Payments (2 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: Regional enterprise development and sustainable job creation is a key policy priority of mine and the Government and is a core element of the National Development Plan. My Department plays a very strong part in implementing that policy goal through a variety of policy initiatives and investments in the regions. Through the Regional Enterprise Development Fund (REDF), the Border Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ticket Touting (2 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 and 123 together. Six venues applied for designation under the Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Act 2021 (Designation of Venues and Events) Regulations 2021, SI No. 399 of 2021. All six venues have been designated and the details are available on the Department’s website at Register for Designation of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 299. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Finance Bill 2021 contains measures to assist businesses that have ceased trading as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic with the cost of redundancy payments. [53335/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the need for a far greater expansion of the scope of the current supply panel scheme in relation to substitute teachers (details supplied); if her Department examined the statistics for absences; and if it is clear that the current roll-out of a supply panel cannot possibly cater for the number of schools, teachers and potential...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the State pension (contributory) who joined the scheme post 1 September 2012 with in excess of 2,080 contributions who are denied a maximum pension. [52770/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the State pension (contributory) who joined the scheme pre 1 September 2012 with in excess of 2,080 contributions who are denied a maximum pension. [52771/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 6 October 2021, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this is not a justification for denying the application of the March 2018 changes to the scheme to all pensioners who have in excess of 2,080 contributions. [52772/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (2 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tutors who have been administering the Safe Pass courses on a contract basis will be awarded a severance payment on the completion or termination of their contracts. [52525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an area (details supplied) will be able to avail of e-fibre broadband. [53524/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 493. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide information on any large-scale capital investment in childcare proposed for 2023. [54507/21]

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I thank the Deputy for coming some way towards meeting our concerns. As I explained on Committee Stage, I am supportive of the principle behind this amendment, which is to minimise the time period in which there would be acting members. We also discussed that the principle behind what we are doing here is to ensure, as far as possible, that vacancies at member level are planned and filled...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I will certainly keep an eye on it and undertake to write to the incoming chairman and ensure this is only used in exceptional circumstances. The purpose behind this amendment is unforeseen circumstances and not planned vacancies.

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I appreciate the very co-operative manner in which Deputy O'Reilly engaged with the whole process on Committee Stage. I welcomed the amendment at that time and the spirit in which it was made. I have no doubt the Deputy wants to enhance the disclosure of information relating to the commission of offences under the Companies Act 2014 between the Central Bank and the corporate enforcement...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I thank Deputy O’Reilly. Again, I will try to give her some reassurance. We will see how that goes. As I explained on Committee Stage, this section is specifically a requirement of EU law. It transposes Article 30(c)(ii) of the EU audit directive, practically word for word. Failure to re-enact these provisions would mean that Ireland would be in breach of its EU obligations. As...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I thank Deputy O’Reilly. I genuinely acknowledge that she has been extremely constructive from the get-go. However, as I said already, we are not talking about the courts here. We are talking about administrative sanctions that apply only to breaches of statutory audit rules. These rules are derived from the EU law that significantly reformed the regulation of statutory audit...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I am lucky.

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I understand from the Deputy’s questions about this section on Committee Stage that she is concerned with the perception that there is a lack of equity. She has raised that again just now. A director cannot be levied with an administrative financial sanction so high that they could be adjudicated bankrupt. However another person fined by the court for a different breach of law could...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: Deputy O'Reilly could address the amendments that were ruled out of order. I have an answer for her that I think she might welcome.

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: I acknowledge the Deputies' interest in the industrial and provident societies legislation. I want to share the intention of addressing the shortcomings in the current legislation and inform the House that work is well advanced in my Department to update and modernise the existing legislative framework. We are close to finalising the general scheme of the co-operative societies Bill, which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Nov 2021)

Robert Troy: 253. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a full palliative care programme is put in place for a person (details supplied) without further delay. [55071/21]