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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (2 Feb 2017)

Niall Collins: 355. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of full-time and part-time staff hired since January 2017 following the confirmation that an additional €3 million has been allocated by her Department to the evolving Brexit scenario to increase resources in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (2 Feb 2017)

Niall Collins: 357. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of full-time and part-time staff in her trade policy section; the staff increases she is considering for 2017 to deal with developments around an impending Brexit; if any staff requests were made in 2016 to strengthen resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5202/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (2 Feb 2017)

Niall Collins: 354. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff requested by her Department and in each State agency under the auspices of her Department in the 2012 to 2016 period on an annual basis in tabular form; the number of staff subsequently hired in each year in this period on a departmental-wide basis and in each State agency under the auspices of her Department;...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (2 Feb 2017)

Niall Collins: 356. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of full-time and part-time staff requests each agency had made for 2017 prior to the announcement in October 2016 that an additional budget allocation had been given to her Department for the evolving Brexit scenario by increasing staff resources in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Bodies Accounts (2 Feb 2017)

Niall Collins: 358. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the Comptroller and Auditor General last audited the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5206/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (1 Feb 2017)

Niall Collins: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his Department's dealings with a club (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the need to bring these matters to a successful conclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4832/17]

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: The Minister must gain an appreciation of the concern in rural Ireland about the Bus Éireann crisis. My constituency of County Limerick is predominantly rural and people rely on the public transport service to travel to Limerick city for hospital appointments, their day-to-day business or to work. Equally, they rely on it to get to the key county towns of Abbeyfeale, Newcastlewest,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: As Deputy David Cullinane knows, we are embarking on an engagement process with all stakeholders to try to inform ourselves and get a handle on the problem. We know that there have been some high profile disputes. Can the numbers of workers in the labour force who are actually impacted on by these practices which are being used by unscrupulous employers be quantified? If we had a handle on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: I would like to hear Deputy David Cullinane's view on the following, as the person who is sponsoring the Bill. The Deputy said it when we debated it earlier and it is in his opening statement that the "employer must demonstrate that the business is experiencing severe financial difficulties, such that there would be a substantial risk...". The employer would have to provide notification of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: If a Minister or Government Department was sponsoring legislation, there would be a regulatory impact assessment, which should be carried out on most legislation. We are partly doing that here by way of this exercise. Have the Deputy or the people who helped him with the Bill - Mandate or whoever - considered the potential impact on small business and small employers vis-à-visthe big...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: The issue of the tourist industry and the seasonal nature of some employment has been raised. Can I get the Deputy's take on that, and the six month period referenced in the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: I do not mind who offers an answer to this question. Could each organisation give an overview on the levels of engagement it has had with either the sponsor of the original Bill or with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, which is in the process of drafting a Bill? The witnesses have articulated their critique of the Bill presented to the Dáil, which is the reason we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: Did the author or authors of the UL study, who will present before the committee, consult the witnesses as part of the fact-finding or evidence-gathering in writing the report? Mr. Barry is the only witness who has acknowledged that there is a problem that needs to be fixed. I commend him on that. Did I hear him say that the issue could be sorted through the Organisation of Working Time Act?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 [Private Members]: Discussion (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: What about the engagement with the author or authors of the UL report?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: 87. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff under the aegis of his Department in the clerical officer, staff officer or equivalent grade. [4942/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Data (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: 122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff under the aegis of her Department in the clerical officer, staff officer or equivalent grade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4940/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff under the aegis of his Department in the clerical officer, staff officer or equivalent grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4936/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite an application for remote access grant by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4331/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Data (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff under the aegis of his Department in the clerical officer, staff officer or equivalent grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4934/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (31 Jan 2017)

Niall Collins: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of staff under the aegis of his Department in the clerical officer, staff officer or equivalent grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4935/17]