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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: Is everyone happy with No. 5? We are not going to dwell on JobPath. If we get the report back, we can come back to it again.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: As everyone is happy with No. 5, we will move on to discussing No. 6, the offset of savings of €2.119 million on jobseeker's payment to reflect the Government's decision on the pandemic unemployment payment. Any questions? No. No. 7 is the €1.55 million due to the transfer of the employment policy and Low Pay Commission funding to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: Before the Minister makes her closing comments, I refer to the point made by Deputy Ó Cuív. The Minister for Finance made an announcement in budget 2020 that we look at the possibility of staff being able to hotdesk in other Government offices. For argument's sake, that would mean someone who is based in the Department of Social Protection in Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon or Longford...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Further Revised) (11 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: That concludes the consideration of Vote 37 - social protection. We have put the Minister's officials under pressure over the past number of weeks and I thank them for providing us with information. There will be further engagement over the next couple of weeks in advance of the social welfare Bill coming before the House.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (11 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Social Protection,Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2021: Vote 37 - Social Protection. I again thank the Minister and her officials for their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: Fourteen months ago, the Minister of State and everyone else in this House supported the proposition that an inquiry into the beef sector take place in this country. At the moment, we are telling beef farmers to come forward with the evidence and present it to the CCPC. I made a submission to the commission but the reality is that unless a whistle-blower comes forward to provide documentary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: I will come back to my core point. There are two ways that a thorough investigation can be carried out. One is if documentary evidence comes forward, and that can only happen if we have a whistle-blower within the industry. The other option is for the Government, through the offices of the Minister and the Department, to direct the CCPC to carry out a market study and inquire into the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 34. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the requests he has received in the past 12 months from his ministerial colleagues to carry out a market study under section 10(4) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35118/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: In September 2019, Dáil Éireann unanimously supported a motion on the beef sector that called on the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation under section 10(4) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 to request the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, to carry out a market study and analysis on the nature and scale of consumer and beef farmer...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. It is positive that 60 of the staff have found employment but the difficulty is that they are finding it not in Ballinasloe but elsewhere. I would like the Tánaiste to chair a meeting of all of the State agencies, along with the two local authorities in counties Galway and Roscommon, to implement a co-ordinated strategy specifically for the town...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: I accept that the steering committees have been set up but there is a steering committee in the mid-west. When Molex Ireland closed in Shannon, the then Minister, Deputy Humphreys, went to Shannon and brought all of the players around the table. I am asking the Tánaiste to do the same because the one thing that Ballinasloe has going for it is the infrastructure. It has industrial land...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 28. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 15 October 2020, the steps he is taking to replace the job losses in Ballinasloe, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35059/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: Last August, Aptar announced the closure of its operation in Ballinasloe with the loss of 115 jobs. To put it in perspective, this is the equivalent of 1,380 jobs going overnight in the city of Galway. There has not been the same level of focus on the town of Ballinasloe as there would be with a similar scale of job losses in Galway city and we need a proactive approach to be taken by...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Data Centres (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 42. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the discussions his officials have had with IDA Ireland with regard to the development of data centres in line with the policy of locating them in areas with grid capacity and only in cases in which there is an employment dividend associated with their development; if an evaluation has been conducted by his Department of the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Data Centres (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 53. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the discussions his officials have had with IDA Ireland with regard to the development of data centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34990/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Data Centres (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 63. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the steps he is taking to implement the Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland’s Enterprise Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34987/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 72. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the requests that he has made under section 10(4) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 to request the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to carry out a market study in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35117/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will publish the clean air strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34523/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Strategies (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the delay in publishing the clean air strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34524/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Ministerial Travel (10 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: 175. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will visit Ballinasloe, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34521/20]