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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (12 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Once again, I thank the Minister for her response but the delay from the Office of the Attorney General is very disappointing. Will the Minister outline the additional funding and staff that will be made available to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and other offices that fall under the regulation section of her Department? In the expenditure report yesterday, on page...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Innovation Partnerships (12 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if funding will be provided for Ireland to join CERN in order that Irish businesses, scientists, researchers and students can benefit from the advanced scientific research taking place there. [43034/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Communications Unit (12 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which the new Strategic Communications Unit will be used by the Office of the Tánaiste or her Department; and if staff from the Office of the Tánaiste or her Department will be moved to it. [43037/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (12 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which the previously announced plan to double Irish representation abroad will impact agencies under her remit, namely Enterprise Ireland and the IDA; the number of extra staff envisaged; and when this plan will be available. [43036/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 103. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the weekend hours of operation of Shannondoc have been curtailed; if full service will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (12 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 104. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a new general practitioner services contract in view of the difficulty in sourcing general practitioners in rural parts of the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43230/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (12 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 106. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in County Limerick awaiting autism spectrum disorder assessment and intervention, by the number of months spent on a waiting list, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43235/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is very disappointing that we are having this debate a year after 90 of us were elected to this Chamber by the people on foot of the Right2Change-Right2Water campaign. That was probably the biggest mass mobilisation of people on the streets that I have ever seen, apart from probably 1981 hunger strike. In my city of Limerick we had rallies of 10,000 to 15,000 people on the streets....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (4 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 129. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen the 20 closed beds in St. John’s hospital, Limerick to help alleviate the overcrowding problem in university hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42023/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Tánaiste for her presentation. I have a query related to the questions asked by Deputy Collins. I was going to ask the same questions. The Tánaiste has said that IDA Ireland was allowed to employ ten extra staff to specifically deal with Brexit. . Deputy Frances Fitzgerald: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Seven of those positions have been filled. Can I assume that those people are actually working away in that department on Brexit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: That is seven people with IDA Ireland. Enterprise Ireland has 39 people who have been sanctioned to be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Sorry, 35. I thought the Tánaiste said that 28 were filled and 11 are outstanding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is grand. There are 39 for Enterprise Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Tánaiste is saying that 28 of those positions have been filled. Are those people actually at their desks and working away?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: That is not my understanding of it, but I could be wrong on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I am happy to have that clarified. I am disappointed with the Tánaiste's response on the Succeed in Ireland programme. I was going to ask the same question. It has taken so long for the terms of reference even to be agreed. This is a major issue. I have met with IDA Ireland and with ConnectIreland people in recent weeks and I find it inexplicable as to why we have not sorted out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Is there a separate Brexit unit in the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation? If so, how many people are employed in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: They are employed at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Mid-year Review of the 2017 Estimates for Public Services: Vote 32 (3 Oct 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Tánaiste said that the full capital spend was used up. Does she think any of the additional moneys that were allocated to her Department this year will not be spent and will have to be carried forward until next year?