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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (20 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when preliminary data will be available to report on progress for each regional job target projected in Enterprise 2025; if this data will be made available before the end of 2016; if not, when in 2017 this data is expected; the reporting mechanisms that will be put in place to provide timely reporting and publishing of such data;...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (20 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 302. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the advanced factory units that the IDA have in each county in tabular form; the factories to be built in 2017; the factories planned under each regional jobs action plan; the timeline for delivery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31341/16]

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

Niall Collins: 303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of funding provided to the Low Pay Commission in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31342/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all provisions from EU directives pertaining to increasing the share of public procurement contracts by small and medium-sized enterprises have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22785/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (19 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the fair deal scheme and the way such scheme applies to farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31034/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 125. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding for expansion works (details supplied); the discussions he has held in the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31042/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: I ask Mr. Sherry of Enterprise Ireland to give us an overview of its current and capital Vote allocations for 2017 and how that will impact on its new staff head count. He alluded to it but has not given us any detail in terms of how many staff we are talking about and how they will be spread across the globe. He could give us a little more detail. There was reference to boots on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: How many extra people are to be engaged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: Is that 50 new staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: Has the initial submission or presentation it was intended to make to the committee been approved since then by the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: It was said that capital gains tax was one of a number of issues that came into consideration for start-up enterprises. What is the IDA's experience of the personal taxation regime when it comes to dealing with target clients and the question of attracting executives? How does the regime impact on our competitiveness and to what extent is it a barrier? Can the witnesses comment on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: Is our present personal tax regime a barrier or is it not a barrier? What are client companies saying to the IDA on the question of our personal tax regime?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: I get that, but is it or is it not a barrier? Does the IDA have a view on it? Is it allowed to express a view on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: What about the connectivity fund?

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 102. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the September 2016 figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund which showed that 1,366 persons are waiting more than 18 months for an outpatient appointment in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30664/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be taken to address the persistent emergency department overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30665/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (13 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will announce the patronage of the proposed new secondary school in Mungret, County Limerick as soon as possible in view of the fact that parents and their children are being requested to nominate their choice of schools in the absence of knowing this school's patron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30007/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: I welcome what we have seen on this occasion in the budgetary exercise as a shift in Government thinking. In the budget the split in spend will be 3:1. Under the previous Administration which comprised Fine Gael and the Labour Party and lasted for five years, the split in the years in which there was additional funding available was 1:1 or 50:50. It is worth reminding everybody that those...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 93. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to information technology issues associated with the WRC's online complaints system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29997/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Establishment (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Collins: 94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Low Pay Commission is sufficiently resourced and funded to carry out independent evidence based research; the way in which it is resourced in comparison to the UK's LPC; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29998/16]