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Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: It would be remiss of me to speak without congratulating my local GAA team, Na Piarsaigh, on its recent victory in the all-Ireland senior club hurling final. I have to mention that Na Piarsaigh is the first Limerick team to achieve such a victory.

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: As a newly elected Deputy, I regret that today's discussion on housing and homelessness will not lead to any action. Nobody who is homeless tonight will get a house on foot of what we have been doing in this House today. I agree with Deputy O'Brien's suggestion that the Dáil should sit for three days this week, but that is not happening, unfortunately. The Moyross area of my...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I am delighted the Dáil has agreed to set up an all-party committee to deal with the issue of housing and homelessness. It is long overdue. We have a national emergency, which should be called a national emergency. I will campaign that we call it such. Nowhere is it expressed as vividly as it is in my own city of Limerick. Today, in the local newspaper, the Limerick Post, the front...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I was shocked when the Minister for Health announced last week that he was going to cut €12 million from the funding for mental health services. I have no doubt that this will have a hugely negative impact on services. If the cuts materialise, it will demonstrate that the Minister is totally out of touch with the suffering and support needs of those facing mental health issues in...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: At the start of the discussion, we were asked not to do it.

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: In fairness, he interrupted her.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I welcome today's motion to end the shambolic policy of water charges. This motion is supported by 39 Deputies, all of whom signed up to the Right2Water campaign. A motion to scrap water charges should have been debated in the House weeks ago, but between them Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil saw to it that the democratic will of the people was thwarted and that no such debate took place. In...

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: When will the legislation announced yesterday on the Criminal Assets Bureau be published? The Taoiseach referred this morning to the terrible events in the north inner city. I agree with what he said. He also said that in Limerick, the problem was stopped by putting in additional resources. Those additional resources, 100 extra gardaí, came after the publication of the Fitzgerald...

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The legislation is important to Limerick. When will it be published?

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I congratulate the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and I hope to work with her in the course of the lifetime of this Dáil. It goes without saying that I welcome any motion which seeks to protect workers' rights. In this instance, however, the hypocrisy of the motion is staggering. In its opening lines the motion calls on Dáil Éireann to stand up for working...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I welcome the opportunity to participate in what I hope will be the first of many debates on jobs, and particularly sustainable jobs. Any discussion about sustainable jobs must include a discussion of what constitutes a sustainable labour market. We know the labour market is crucial in terms of creating sustainable communities and in terms of the economic, social, and cultural well being of...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I said she was the second Minister in this area.

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will make retention of the 9% value added tax rate to the hospitality sector conditional on its engagement with the Labour Relations Commission and acceptance of registered employment agreements, given that this sector has an embedded culture of widespread low pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16247/16]

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The hospitality sector has always been an important part of the economy. The sector is experiencing a period of growth and employs more than 137,000 people. More than 23,000 jobs have been created in hospitality since 2011, largely supported by lower VAT rates. According to the Irish Hotels Federation, the national hotel occupancy rate is at a ten-year high and 82% of hoteliers across the...

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The reality for workers in the hospitality sector is that more than 50% of the 130,000 people working in accommodation and food services earn less than €400 per week. In addition, 17% of all other employees in the sector earn only the national minimum hourly wage and 41% of employees in the sector work part-time. While the average wage is €697.52, in the hospitality sector it...

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Ireland is a deeply unequal society in which service workers, predominately women, are undervalued and underpaid.

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I suggest that the retention of the lower VAT rate be conditional on the hospitality industry engaging with trade unions.

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The refusal by employers in the hospitality sector to participate in the joint labour committees structure and agree on the terms, pay and conditions of employment is not acceptable, particularly when the same sector is in receipt of significant public moneys.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I start by thanking the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit for bringing forward this motion. Last January, Deputy Alan Kelly, at the stroke of a pen, introduced SI 24. The rationale for this was that 90% of families and households would pay less to have their bin collected. Fast forward, however, to June 2016 and the truth emerges of what the costs will be and it now transpires...

The Arts: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I welcome all the people in the Public Gallery. It is great to see such a crowd. We do not normally get so many people here. The arts are part of the DNA of the Irish State. Their very uniqueness is what makes us who we are as a people. In this sense, the arts and our cultural institutions are the key producers of Irish identity. In a mature society that values expression and...