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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Does that mean there will be reductions in staff numbers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Is there any capital investment required in terms of the conversion of some of the briquette factories to being able to use biomass? What will happen to staff if something must be done in Derrinlough, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: With regard to BioEnergy Ireland, will there be new staff and skills required or will there be an opportunity for existing staff to go into that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank the witnesses for coming this afternoon. I thank Mr. Quinn, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Barry, as it has been a very helpful engagement. We have certainly learned much and I hope we have impressed upon the witnesses that the staff have been asking us to put many of these questions. We have been constrained because of the labour relations engagement but we would like to impress upon the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank the witness and we will consider it. We will probably not have the opportunity to do it before the Houses go into recess but we will certainly look at it and work it out. I am sure members of the committee would find it very helpful. I thank everybody for the engagement today, which was very helpful. I reiterate how much we appreciate the employers and employees of Bord na...

Order of Business (10 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: What progress has been made on the criminal law (sexual offences) Bill? One of the matters being dealt with in that is the criminalisation of the purchase of sexual services. Extensive work was conducted on this matter by the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality last year and a detailed report was submitted to the Department and the Minister. Ironically, a delegation from the...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill, which is a combination of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill and the Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill. This Bill is a fulfilment of the programme for Government's commitment to reform the current law on employees' rights to engage in collective bargaining. Indeed, it is also a fulfilment of the statement of...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: If the Deputy resumes his seat, we will call a quorum.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Quiet, please, Deputy. We are calling a quorum.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Deputy Boyd Barrett is sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Tom Fleming. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Deputy Boyd Barrett has 20 minutes. If Deputy Fleming arrives the Deputies can work out the sharing of the time slot between them.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: The Deputy has the floor.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (11 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a disability allowance payment for a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22798/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (11 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 209. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he plans to publish, in full, the revised wind energy guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22796/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (16 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of internal grade 8 positions created in the Health Service Executive from 2005 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [23390/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (16 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of general manager positions created in the Health Service Executive from 2005 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [23393/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards Regulation (16 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 614. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a ban on the sale of energy drinks to children under 18 years of age; to regulate the quantity of caffeine, taurine or other substances used in some energy drinks that may have negative health effects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23597/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (16 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 779. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered an incentive scheme to encourage home-scale waste treatment plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23395/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority Remit (16 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 884. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority has plans for sustainably powered transport for rural areas and for urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23394/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (16 Jun 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 931. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will advise of the conditions of the 2007 approval of funding for an arts centre (details supplied) in County Offaly. [23654/15]