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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 909. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she will initiate a debate on the agreed text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; if Dáil Éireann will be given the opportunity to vote on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22908/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 910. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to regulate the au pair and domestic workers sector to protect vulnerable women from exploitation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22909/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Expenditure (19 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 911. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 787 to 790, inclusive, of 12 July 2016, the exact amount of pay received by individual members of the Low Pay Commission for 2015 from a total of €155,500, and the same for the first six months of this year, for the €244,000 allocated to the commission for pay in 2016 in tabular...

Au Pair Placement Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Sinn Féin welcomes the opportunity to discuss the regularisation of the position of au pairs and domestic workers in Ireland. Ireland may be unique in Europe in its absolute failure to provide any semblance of a national child care policy or services. The situation continues to persist in spite of the fact that since the early 1990s, we have seen increased participation by women in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (12 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 70. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 714 of 31 May 2016, how the co-investment programme of €27.5 million for the national dementia strategy has been spent; the funding available from this; the cost to date of providing intensive home care packages since January 2015 to the 133 persons nationally; the cost of rolling-out dementia specialist intensive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (12 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the number of suitably qualified staff that have been part of the initiative undertaken by the HSE to train and upskill to become orthodontic therapists; the details of the pilot scheme and the number of patients who are under treatment; the progress being made to expand this initiative to other regional orthodontic departments; and if he will make a...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Even in boom times, successive Governments have not had enough resources to ensure we can tackle the blight that is drug abuse. My home town of Limerick city, for instance, has no local drugs task force. We have no detoxification centre, yet we clearly have a worsening drugs problem. Limerick, like the rest of the country, needs detox spaces, properly resourced drug treatment services and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foireann Roinne (7 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 44. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí na sonraí maidir leis an laghdú atá tagtha ar líon na foirne i Roinn na Gaeltachta le deich mbliana anuas. [19876/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments (6 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, and wish her well in her role as Minister of State with responsibility for drugs issues. It is an issue on which I have campaigned for a number of years so I hope we can work together on it. This issue is addressed to the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris, and I refer to the crisis in University Hospital Limerick, as over the past...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments (6 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is difficult to respond as the Minister is not here, but I hope the Minister of State will relay my comments to him. I am especially pleased the Minister of State indicated the unit is not fit for purpose as that is what the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, stated two years ago and the crisis is ongoing. The amalgamation caused the crisis and the Minister of State...

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: As the Sinn Féin spokesperson on jobs I can say that our party policy is very clear when it comes to economic recovery. Increased employment must mean increased prosperity for all workers. As it stands, we are coming from a low base considering that we have the second highest number of low paid workers in the OECD. It is not acceptable that almost 400,000 workers, or 30% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Signage (5 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 635. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to explain the absence of a signpost for Castleconnell at junction 27 of the M7 motorway, which is the last junction before motorists from Dublin would bypass the tourist village; and the steps he will take without delay to correct this anomaly. [19180/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (5 Jul 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 640. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a policy whereby when footpaths are being upgraded disabled ramps and a designated parking spot are included in the plans; if there is a specific fund allocated to local authorities to provide disabled parking spots in rural towns in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19400/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (29 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the status of works and the expected finish date of the Coonagh to Knockalisheen Road scheme, which was approved an allocation of €1.4 million in May 2014 and was expected to proceed to construction by the end of 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18652/16]

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: While Sinn Féin will support the Bill, in light of serious concerns expressed by a significant percentage of the population on this issue, we believe the legislation does not go far enough. As such, this is disappointing and a lost opportunity. There is little doubt that the issue of school admissions has become extremely controversial. We are dealing with the legacy of an...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 205. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make a subvention available to compensate for the net downward global revaluation, as he did with other councils that were in the same position in 2015, with regard to the impact of the 2015 global valuations on Fingal council’s budgets, which will not be felt until 2017; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the courses of action councils can take to make up shortfalls that arose from the downward revaluation of utility companies if compensation from central government will not be paid in 2017, as was the case in 2016 in relation to the impact of the 2015 global valuations on council budgets. [18328/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned with regards to possible shortfalls in council budgets in relation to the impact of the 2015 global valuations on council budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18329/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 208. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned that the companies which received downward revaluations were all highly profitable companies (details supplied) and that now small business, many of which are still struggling, could be facing hikes to their rates to compensate for the downward revaluation of many profitable companies or alternatively...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will be making the same subventions as listed in a table (details supplied) for 2017, in relation to the 2015 global valuations on council budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18429/16]