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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I wish to return to the first question I asked the witness about the terms of reference and whether they had been finalised. The witness said he did not know and that it would be done in due course. Can we get a commitment that the committee will be given the terms of reference as soon as they are established? In the interim, is the Department prepared to intervene and ensure that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: As I previously raised, the concern I have is that the witness does not know. He said "due course". We do not even know when that is going to be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: So there is no commitment from the Department to ensure ConnectIreland will be working on the Tuesday or Wednesday of next week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Ms Murphy for the presentation which was appreciated. I am perplexed by the decision of IDA Ireland not to renew the contract. I cannot get my head around the reasoning for it. From speaking to ConnectIreland in the past and seeing the jobs it has delivered in areas where IDA Ireland is not going to deliver them, especially in rural Ireland and the more remote parts of the State -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I want to ask Mr. Clune and Mr. Murphy whether they believe that, if the will is there, the programme can be extended without any problems.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: ConnectIreland's 'Succeed in Ireland' Programme: Discussion (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: The reason I ask is that we were told it had to go to tender and procurement and that there are issues in that regard. I want to hear an opinion as to whether this can be extended on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or otherwise.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 600. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports issued outside the State in each of the years 1997 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13903/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Meetings (21 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of meetings and engagements she has had with the Industrial Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland and InterTrade Ireland from June 2016 to date in 2017. [13196/17]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: We have a problem with the Bill. We might abstain or oppose but I am not tabling any amendment. Do I have to agree to that now?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Are we agreeing this to go forward or what are we doing? I am still a little confused.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Is it on this section or all sections?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (7 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 532. To ask the Minister for Health if SuperCheck test strips, as used with the SuperCheck two glucometer, are available free of charge under the long-term illness scheme; if not, his plans to make them available under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11516/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Deering for his presentation. I am substituting for Deputy Pearse Doherty who was unable to make it to the meeting. I am sure the office will need more resources and will be making a request in that regard to the Minister. I note the work of the office thus far on the tracker mortgage issue. While, without doubt, it has been valuable to consumers and so on, some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Mr. Deering also referred in his presentation to the number of complaints received. How many of those were from people who were denied a tracker mortgage? Was that the issue in terms of the bulk of the complaints received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: They made a complaint but it was not upheld.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: A number of people affected by the tracker mortgage issue have raised with many Deputies their concern that where a bank offers as an excuse the loss of documentation, the ombudsman's office has accepted that excuse. Does the office have the power to search the banks in such cases and is Mr. Deering aware of any pattern around missing documentation? In another case, when a complainant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Has that power ever been exercised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: It has also been pointed out to the committee that the PTSB appeal process is a bit of a joke. Does the office have the power to step in if an appeals process is being used as a delaying tactic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: The bureau representatives probably have a better oversight than any of us of the scale and nature of the problem. My final question on tracker mortgages relates to whether the bureau under any obligation to report any of these issues to An Garda Síochána or any other enforcement body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Ombudsman's Bureau - Strategic Plan 2017 and Tracker Mortgage Issues: Discussion (2 Mar 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: Mr. Deering referenced the motion of my Sinn Féin colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, as well as the Government position on producing legislation to tackle the six-year rule. The Sinn Féin legislation is on Committee Stage. The proposed Government legislation went through pre-legislative scrutiny but we have heard nothing about it since. There are differences in the two approaches....