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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: The Minister mentioned the scheme announced by Enterprise Ireland this morning and the earlier budget announcement by the Minister for Finance. By any yardstick, the state of preparedness of business for the onset of a hard Brexit is alarming. AIB recently published a sentiment index for quarter 3 of this year which shows that only one in four Irish SMEs is properly prepared for a hard...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the report by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement on a trial (details supplied) will be published. [49594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Documents (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication of all external reports commissioned by her Department since June 2016 regarding Brexit, in tabular form; and if all such reports have been or will be published. [49596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Programme (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 63. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Second Stage of the Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill as referenced in the autumn legislative programme for 2017 is due to take place. [49827/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Site Visits (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the IDA collates feedback from prospective clients following site visits; if commonalities in feedback regarding site visits are outlined in annual published reports; and if so, the name of such reports. [49828/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Expenditure (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of spending from the IDA's capital budget spent on market analysis of property solutions in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49830/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Documents (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 66. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the research study commissioned by her Department, Sectoral Implications Arising from Brexit: Most Exposed Sectors, is due to be completed and published. [49832/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Documents (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 67. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the research study commissioned by her Department, Strategic Implications Arising from EU-UK Trading Patterns, is due to be completed and published. [49833/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 68. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the latest Mercosur trade talks; and her plans to ensure that Irish farmers are protected and that beef does not form part of the final deal. [49834/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 69. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the plan for a rescue and restructure scheme for businesses here impacted by Brexit submitted to the Directorate General for Competition; if the scheme is intended to provide equity and loans to firms only; the minimum and maximum loan amounts proposed to be permissible under the scheme; if direct grant aid will be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if assistance for a person (details supplied) will be provided; if the OPW has visited the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49808/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding process for the full duration of all craft based and consortia led apprenticeships; the breakdown of each separate funding stream between national training levy, exchequer contributions, employer contributions and other sources of finance in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; the minimum and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harriers Threat Response Plan (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to compensate persons impacted by the hen harrier designation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49740/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received for the position of chair of a company (details supplied); the number of persons interviewed for this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49741/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Banking (23 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 210. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress as committed to under the programme for Government to investigate the German Sparkassen model for the development of local public banks. [49829/17]

Rural Crime: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: I heard late last night that the Minister paid a visit to my constituency. He visited the Garda station in Newcastle West, which is in need of refurbishment works, as he knows. Had I known he was there, I would have come along. I would have pointed out to him that the relatively new Garda station down the road in Abbeyfeale is open for only a small number of hours per day. This station...

Topical Issue Debate: Fodder Crisis (21 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: I am not sure if the farmers I represent will take any comfort from the Minister's initial response. I do not believe that they will get the sense that he shares their concerns. If we look at the Minister's track record, the rural development programme 2014 to 2020 did not include a measure to compensate farmers who suffered losses from severe or adverse weather conditions. The farming...

Topical Issue Debate: Fodder Crisis (21 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: I want to impress upon the Minister the seriousness of this issue for my constituency. Coming from the southern part of the country, the Minister will appreciate that County Limerick has a large number of farming families. The Golden Vale has not been impacted, but many small farmers in the west of the county have marginal land, much of which is in areas of natural constraint, and some face...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Functions (21 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the social partners or employment policy experts were consulted before the decision was made to transfer labour affairs functions in her Department to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection; if her officials carried out an impact assessment of the transfer of functions; and if so, if she will publish same....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Nov 2017)

Niall Collins: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the annualised interest rate applied on late payment and filing of P30 returns; the equivalent rate of interest applied in the UK and in other EU and OECD countries, in tabular form. [49094/17]