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- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Leader Programmes Funding (28 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: 256. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when an additional budget will be allocated to the Leader programme to meet the demand of qualified projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14464/18]
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: To get it going, will the Minister outline the spread of staff? She mentioned twice that she has engaged over 100 additional staff to deal with the Brexit challenge across her Department and the various agencies. Will she give us an overview of the spread of those staff across her Department and agencies? Are they whole-time permanent or are they contracted? Will the Minister give us an...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: They are obviously permanent.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: Are they five-year contracts or three-year contracts?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: They are all full time. InterTradeIreland was mentioned on the news this morning. There was a Brexit event in Cavan last night and InterTradeIreland had an input into it. Is such an increase marginal in terms of the role it is fulfilling with the Brexit challenge on the horizon?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: How did that increase compare with what it asked for?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: I will go back to the Brexit loan scheme and the €300 million fund. The Minister said previously that this fund would be leveraged up by the pillar banks. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: What levels of expressions of interest has the Minister had to date in the potential take-up of that scheme?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: What is the level of the fund?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: Okay.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) Niall Collins: I have three other broad questions for the Minister. First, has she or her Department conducted any recent impact analysis given the change in trade policy that President Trump has been advocating in recent weeks and months? My second question is on an issue that is an old chestnut of this committee. Can the Minister give us an update on the Succeed in Ireland initiative and the breakdown...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairpersons Designate of Public Bodies (27 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: I thank Mr. Kennedy for his interest in fulfilling the role. Out of curiosity, could he walk us through the process that brought him here? Did he apply for the position on publicjobs.ie?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairpersons Designate of Public Bodies (27 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: Mr. Kennedy can take it from there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairpersons Designate of Public Bodies (27 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: Was that the outgoing chairperson?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairpersons Designate of Public Bodies (27 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: Was there only one interview?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairpersons Designate of Public Bodies (27 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: What rank were the departmental officials?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairpersons Designate of Public Bodies (27 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: I wish Mr. Kennedy the best of luck in his role and thank him for his interest in it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: I am sure the Tánaiste is well aware that the country is sleepwalking into a crisis in terms of the provision of front-line community medical care through our GPs. Some 10% of the approximately 2,400 GPs practising around the country are due to retire in the next two years, with 30% due to retire within the next seven years. In County Limerick, we have 46 GPs and almost a quarter are...
- Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: The Joint Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation, of which I am a member, is compiling a report on the cost of doing business in Ireland. All the witnesses who have appeared before the committee have flagged as their number one item the cost of insurance. That does not come as a surprise to any of us. However, the problem is that it is not getting any better. All the work that...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (21 Mar 2018)
Niall Collins: 78. To ask the Taoiseach the source of a briefing note as published online (details supplied); and if a departmental official or member of the strategic communications unit was involved in compiling this briefing note. [11128/18]