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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 314. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the national and regional job targets under the programme for Government and Enterprise 2025 in each of the years 2016 to 2020; the latest quarterly national household survey data; the most recent figures for these targets in each region; the job targets up to 2020 on an annual basis, by region, in tabular form; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 315. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the review of the work permits regime; and the criteria that apply. [7496/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will discuss with HSE management the need to ensure regular attendance by a HSE representative at the meetings of a board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6832/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if the criteria for the availability of the Versatis patch can be reviewed in view of the number of persons who require same as in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7161/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (13 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 403. To ask the Minister for Health when the FEMPI cuts imposed on medical general practitioners will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7128/18]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (8 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Health the extra support that will be provided to University Hospital Limerick in 2018 to reduce waiting times for a first-time appointment to see a neurologist in view of the fact that 418 persons had been waiting more than 18 months for appointments at the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6421/18]

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding regional IDA site visits up to the end of 2017 in addition to vacant IDA properties nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6009/18]

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: My question is on the same theme as Deputy Smyth's. I ask the Minister to address the glaring anomaly over which IDA Ireland and by extension the Minister are presiding, with the imbalance in IDA Ireland's site visits to Dublin compared with those outside Dublin. It is simply not acceptable and feeds into the two-tier recovery the country is experiencing.

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: As the Minister knows, last night we debated a motion on broadband. The shambles of the broadband roll-out is impacting on balanced regional development and the location of business. It is feeding into a wider concern about the unravelling of services in rural areas. IDA Ireland is also complicit with those in government in this agenda which is seen as an attack on rural Ireland. In 2017,...

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: Why can IDA Ireland not engage in a real and meaningful agenda and campaign to bring these companies when they come to Ireland-----

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----to locations outside the main population centres and sell these locations-----

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----because with the national planning framework-----

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----coming down the line, there is a huge campaign developing in opposition to that strategy which will again impact negatively on rural Ireland?

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: The Minister needs to use every-----

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: -----avenue at her disposal to ensure IDA Ireland departs from its current strategy.

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: IDA Ireland is offering the excuse that it cannot go into the boardrooms of potential investors in this country and direct them to come to a specific location. It picks up the representatives of the company when they come to Ireland and brings them to their stated preferred location. IDA Ireland needs to do better. While it can bring them to their preferred stated location, it should offer...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of funding allocated to the programme for research in third level institutions in 2018; and the amount of funding that has been ring-fenced for frontier research. [6292/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: This question requests an update on the allocation of funding for the programme of research in third level institutions. Ireland's ranking in the 2017 Bloomberg innovation index fell. Any underfunding of third level research will ultimately erode our competitiveness. Will the Minister of State give me an update on this?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: Trade unionists, employers and business representative associations state our economic recovery, prosperity and well-being will be put at risk if we do not adequately resource third level funding. Since 2016, there has been a 52% cut in research funding. We need to call the Government to account on this. A fall from €30.4 million to €14 million is a drastic cut. This is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Research Funding (7 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: I am sure the point is not lost on the Minister of State that there are hundreds of Irish researchers actively working overseas, particularly in the UK, who, if they were funded properly in this country, would move back. That is a huge resource we are missing here and we are at a loss because of it. Previously, research funding was allocated through a five-year model. It is now changed...