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Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (18 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State for introducing the Bill. I will make only a brief comment as we discussed previously this short and unopposed technical Bill which transposes two sections of a directive to harmonise the laws of European Union member states relating to the making available on the market of measuring instruments. I have become acutely aware of the importance of measurement...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Funding (18 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 77. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the new budget allocation of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement for 2018. [44108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Expenditure (18 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 78. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of businesses estimated to avail of the new €300 million Brexit loan scheme; the average size of loans envisaged; when the scheme will come into operation; the length of time the scheme will operate for; and if she will provide detailed information on the proposal. [44109/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Budgets (18 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 79. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the 2017 and 2018 budget allocations for all offices and agencies under her Department’s aegis, in tabular form. [44110/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority Data (18 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of additional staff that will be allocated to the Health and Safety Authority in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44111/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (18 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to the failure to alter PRSI bands in line with the minimum wage increase in budget 2018, a person on the minimum wage earning €18,000 per annum will pay over 45% of their expected rise back in tax; his plans to introduce changes to remedy same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44112/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (18 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new budget allocation for apprenticeships in 2018; the estimated number of apprentices this will support in 2018; and the estimated number of new apprenticeship programmes that will be introduced in 2018. [44113/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (18 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprenticeship programmes that have been introduced to date in 2017; and the number of participants in each new programme, in tabular form. [44114/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I have a few queries about commercial rates. I was a member of Limerick City and County Council with Deputy Neville in 2014 and 2015 - does he want to come in on that point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is a very important clarification because it was a good initiative. Unfortunately, in Limerick city, one of the biggest, most profitable companies in the country has kept a site vacant for a number of years and refuses to deal with anyone who wants to do anything with it, perhaps because it is worried about competition. Something needs to be done about this. I think the council itself...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: What?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: If Deputy Neville knows where it is or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I can do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I agree with almost everything Mr. Burke said, apart from his comments on the centralisation of rates collection. The local authority should do that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reopen Garda stations which were closed in County Clare in view of the fact that his Department found the resources to reopen the Garda station in Stepaside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43463/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reopen garda stations which were closed in County Limerick in view of the fact that his Department found the resources to reopen the Garda station in Stepaside; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43469/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of trainees for An Garda Síochána who are in the Garda College, Templemore; and the number of those anticipated to be allocated to the Limerick division. [43468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for cardiac rehabilitation in University Hospital Limerick and the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis; the strategies in place to resolve these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43471/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (17 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays for cardiac rehabilitation in University Hospital Limerick and the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43472/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Deputy Cullinane began by saying that sometimes this Chamber is like "Live at the Apollo". When I hear what some of the Ministers have said in recent days, it is sometimes like a parallel universe. They think that people think this budget was good and that there is a perception out there that it was good. It is not. Someone on €20,000 will probably have an extra euro in their...