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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: Does the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, wish to come in?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: The Minister spoke in her introductory remarks about her intention to carry out an impact assessment on the Action Plan for Jobs. It is very welcome. I have raised this on several occasions in respect of the south east. Much good work has been done but the unemployment rate in the region is still double the national average. It is not as bad as it was and I admit we came from a very low...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: They have, absolutely.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I now invite the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, to make a brief statement on programme B. Deputy Lawless is chomping at the bit with questions for him.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: What page is it?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: Is it the Department's briefing?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: We are on page 32. Vote 32, sorry. Where exactly on the page? We start with "financial and human resource inputs" on the left?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: The Minister wants to come in here as well.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I will let the Minister in now.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: Before I allow any more questions, to be fair, I will allow the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, to make his statement. He has waited patiently for over two hours. We can then take any subsequent questions on programmes B and C together.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I thank the Minister of State. I note that an extra €1 million has been allocated to the Health and Safety Authority, which is very important. The Minister of State said that additional checks and balances were to be introduced. Is this where he expects the money to go?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I have a question on C9, the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. I am aware that the purpose of this subhead is to make provision for pension payments made by PIAB to retired staff, but I see that there has been a significant reduction in it. Will the Minister of State explain that? When I looked at it first I thought that perhaps the decrease happened because fewer people were going...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: We will conclude then.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: No, but some of us started at 4 p.m. for the first part of the meeting and we are certainly exceeding our time. There was a question about the LEOs as well. I will take one more question each.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: We must have specific questions, not statements.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I call Deputy Donnelly.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I will call the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, to respond on the LEOs. It is an excellent question on why the budget was stagnant. We all know they do a fantastic job.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I call the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, to conclude.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Mary Butler: I thank the Minister, the Ministers of State and their officials for attending. I also thank the Deputies for their interaction. We have had a very good and constructive engagement.