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Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: My question is about the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, between Canada and the EU. Will the Dáil have the opportunity to debate this hugely important trade agreement and will we have a vote on it? I believe this agreement has major implications for workers' rights. Labour standards are not on this agenda. It also has major implications for public services and...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Minister says that the agreement will be provisionally applied. I did not quite hear the date the Minister suggested. That basically means that it will be fully implemented before we debate it here in the Chamber. The Minister also said the agreement will have huge implications for Ireland and that it will be provisionally applied. I think-----

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I do not understand why the Minister cannot hear me.

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: That is not a problem. I will go back to it. At the start of the Minister's contribution, she said that the agreement was provisionally applied. What I am saying is that means it is basically fully implemented. It is going to come back to the Dáil Chamber after it is fully implemented. Does the Minister agree that the agreement will have huge implications for Ireland? If it is...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: But it will be provisionally applied before that.

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Which basically means it will be implemented.

Priority Questions: Low Pay Commission Report (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she accepts that the section on page three of the summer economic statement that the Government will support an increase in the minimum wage to €10.50 per hour over the next five years and will put in place mechanisms that mitigate the impact on employers in order to protect lower paid jobs, pre-empts and undermines the...

Priority Questions: Low Pay Commission Report (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: In light of yesterday's publication from the Low Pay Commission, will the Minister of State indicate if he will be advising the Government to accept its recommendations and what is his view of the report?

Priority Questions: Low Pay Commission Report (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State. In the summer economic statement, the Government has given a commitment to increase the minium wage to €10.50 per hour over a five-year period. How does one get from the current minimum wage rate of €9.15 per hour to €10.50 over five years with a ten cent increase? The answer is that it is impossible to do that. On the other hand, if the...

Priority Questions: Low Pay Commission Report (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Minister of State said the Low Pay Commission met on 18 occasions. However, I received a reply to a parliamentary question yesterday which stated that there were 22 meetings, so there is a slight difference there. Is the Minister of State aware that the chairman of the commission earned €22,493 from 2015 to the first quarter of this year? In that period, according to the...

Priority Questions: Low Pay Commission Report (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Three of them did not agree with him.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 44. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the assertion on page 3 of the Summer Economic Statement that the Government will improve the take home pay of families on low incomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22824/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 69. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she accepts that the Workplace Relations Commission is significantly under-resourced and that this impacts its ability to carry out its statutory functions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22823/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 323. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the crisis in the emergency department at Limerick University Hospital, particularly in respect of the number of persons on trolleys; and his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23124/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the expected opening date of the new emergency department at Limerick University Hospital; his plans to incorporate the existing accident and emergency staff into the new environment; if he has spoken to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the Irish Medical Organisation and other relevant unions and representative associations on the matter; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the new skills that will be required in terms of staffing for the new emergency department at University Hospital Limerick; the progress of the emergency department recruitment drive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23126/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (20 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 326. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to invest in modern diagnostic services such as X-Ray scans, ultrasounds, and so on to allow for faster turnaround in the new Emergency Department at Limerick University hospital; the way he intends to deal with the fact that there are not sufficient skilled staff available to operate existing equipment with the result that the service is running...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will be seeking a derogation from the European Commission to borrow €1 billion outside the fiscal rules for the purpose of social housing as recently requested by IBEC in their 2017 budget proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22657/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 216. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria and availability of a derogation from the European Commission to borrow outside the fiscal rules for the purpose of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22658/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent joint statement on Brexit, where President Hollande, Chancellor Merkel and Premier Renzi noted that Europe must strengthen areas where both economic and social priorities overlap (details supplied); if he will seek derogation from the European Commission to borrow €1 billion outside of the fiscal rules for the purpose of...