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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Data (8 May 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1600. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of new jobs created by Údarás na Gaeltachta client companies in 2018, by county in tabular form; the number of jobs in client companies in each county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19074/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Data (8 May 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1601. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the properties and land rented by Údarás na Gaeltachta in 2018, in tabular form; the yearly rent paid per property; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19079/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding (8 May 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1613. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budget allocation for Údarás na Gaeltachta in 2018 and 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19347/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (18 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason only a portion of Limerick city has been designated a rent pressure zone; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons renting across Limerick city are struggling with escalating rental costs; if this decision will be reviewed and all of Limerick city included as a rent pressure zone; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Cross for his presentation. I have a number of questions on the proposals the Central Bank is coming forward with and I will come back to them on Brexit later. If the Central Bank's proposals were implemented in full today and the tracker scandal broke tomorrow, how would things be different? Do any of the Central Bank's proposals seek jail sentences for breaches of these rules...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: That is a concern we have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: I asked whether the Central Bank believes it has sufficient resources now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: I asked one question that was not answered; I asked a few, so I have no problem with that. Do the witnesses believe that multi-party actions or class action suits have a role to play in empowering working people in taking on the banks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: My question is also about insurance. The Chairman spoke well about the impact it is having on businesses, communities, community groups and the voluntary sector. Everyone is struggling. The spin is that premiums are coming down but people do not see that. My understanding is that staff from the Central Statistics Office, CSO, in collecting data, ring up insurance companies, identify...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: In regard to my concerns about the manner in which the CSO collects the data, does Mr. Cross have any information in that regard?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: On page 21 of the programme for Government, there is a commitment to increasing significantly and expediting the delivery of social housing units. This is not happening in Limerick city. Last September, I informed the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, that there were more than 70 council houses boarded up across Limerick city. Today, the bulk of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: Shamefully, these properties and many others are lying idle while 3,000 people in Limerick are on the housing list.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Government's housing plan is failing dramatically. When will something be done to address the large number of empty council houses, not just in Limerick, but across the country?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to businesses closing down due to the cost, and in some cases unavailability, of insurance; his plans to protect such businesses and the jobs of persons working in them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11152/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Pensions (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: 85. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the decision not to award a person (details supplied) pension entitlements from their recently deceased spouse will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17944/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: 134. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the 200 jobs announced for Athlone by a company (details supplied) in July 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17955/19]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for coming. As he is probably aware, my colleagues Deputies David Cullinane and Aengus Ó Snodaigh introduced a Bill in April 2017 to allow members of the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána to be classified as workers under legislation and give them the option of forming trade unions. The purpose of the Trade Union (An Garda...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: That is an appropriate way to proceed.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: Am I correct in saying I can introduce amendments on Report Stage?

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2019)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Minister will be aware that the Joint Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation recently published a report on the costs of doing business. According to all the stakeholders we met, the main factor was insurance and, as other Deputies have outlined, their inability to secure insurance at a cost they could afford. It is causing significant problems. I do not understand why there...