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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for their presentations. I thank both the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor and the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan for acceding to our request to meet us, be it in Limerick or elsewhere. Will the Minister of State explain the 11% reduction in total expenditure for innovation in the Estimates? It is section B on page 80 of the Revised Estimates.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: In which book of the Estimates would we see where the money was transferred to?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State for his presentation. I have a query but perhaps I misheard a detail. Did he say that the Low Pay Commission, covered under subhead C13, will publish its report on 19 July?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: That is welcome news.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: I was disappointed by the Minister's maiden speech in the Dáil because she made no reference to low pay, workers' rights or industrial relations. I know we will discuss those matters later. In response to Deputy Bríd Smith's query, the Minister said she would respond in respect of them. I wish to refer to page 83 of the Revised Estimates where it is stated that in 2013-----
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: It is at the bottom of page 83 of the Revised Estimates, No. 6 under the heading "Context and Impact indicators". Perhaps the Minister and Minister of State have a different copy.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: The Revised Estimates page that I am referring to mentions the number of days lost through strike action, on page 83.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: It is hard to read the documentation. One heading is "Context and Impact indicators" but I shall continue with my question. In 2013, a total of 14,965 days were lost due to industrial action but by December 2015 the figure had jumped to the very high figure of 32,848. Obviously, a significant part of the latter figure included the teachers' strike about the reform of the junior...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Maurice Quinlivan: In 2013, the number of days lost was 14,965 but that figure rose to a massive 32,848 by December 2015. What will the Department do about that matter?
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (21 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: 553. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her strategy for job creation on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal; how Inishowen can benefit from the designation of Letterkenny as a gateway town and from the Letterkenny-Derry gateway initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16854/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (21 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: 554. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits to County Donegal by potential investors organised by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland in each of the years 2009 to 2016 to date. [16855/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (21 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: 556. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her role in working in partnership with her northern counterpart, in marketing the north west cross-Border region of counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh for inward investment and job creation. [16857/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (21 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: 555. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits organised by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland, for potential investors, by county, in each of the years 2009 to 2016 to date. [16856/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: 561. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware of the dispute at the Garda Síochána Training College in Templemore, County Tipperary where contract cleaners have been brought in without consultation with the Mandate trade union which represents permanent workers employed by the Office of Public Works and without the latter being given the opportunity to...
- Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will make retention of the 9% value added tax rate to the hospitality sector conditional on its engagement with the Labour Relations Commission and acceptance of registered employment agreements, given that this sector has an embedded culture of widespread low pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16247/16]
- Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: The hospitality sector has always been an important part of the economy. The sector is experiencing a period of growth and employs more than 137,000 people. More than 23,000 jobs have been created in hospitality since 2011, largely supported by lower VAT rates. According to the Irish Hotels Federation, the national hotel occupancy rate is at a ten-year high and 82% of hoteliers across the...
- Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: The reality for workers in the hospitality sector is that more than 50% of the 130,000 people working in accommodation and food services earn less than €400 per week. In addition, 17% of all other employees in the sector earn only the national minimum hourly wage and 41% of employees in the sector work part-time. While the average wage is €697.52, in the hospitality sector it...
- Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: Ireland is a deeply unequal society in which service workers, predominately women, are undervalued and underpaid.
- Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)
Maurice Quinlivan: I suggest that the retention of the lower VAT rate be conditional on the hospitality industry engaging with trade unions.