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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Living Wage (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 54. To ask the Taoiseach the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to ensure that employees of such suppliers and contractors are paid the living wage of €11.50 per hour; the cost of implementing this wage for these employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23749/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Living Wage (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 55. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of implementing a living wage of €11.50 for all employees directly employed or in agencies funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23750/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure the provision of additional manpower and resources at Tallaght Garda station to allow for a further effective action to deal with crime, anti-social behaviour and related matters in the area; if her attention has been drawn to the need to provide a visible presence of gardaí throughout the area particularly in estates...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined incentivising small businesses and employers to take on apprentices in an approved programme via an income tax credit similar to the apprenticeship job creation tax credit scheme currently operating in Canada; the approximate cost of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26440/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he proposed to recommence the option for persons to withdraw on a once-off basis up to 30% of their AVCs from their pension plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26673/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Court Recommendations (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 485. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all meetings to date and remaining meetings planed in 2016 of the high level informal forum to deal with the Labour Court recommendation on the issue of pension provision for community employment supervisors-assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26441/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: European Medicines Agency (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 731. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department's bid for the European Medicines Agency relocation from London to Ireland; the meetings which have been held in this regard with the EU Commission; if he has established a task force to lead the re-location bid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27335/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 927. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date, in tabular form, on the annual targets for attaining 70,000 returned emigrants since the making of the commitment in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26483/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 929. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored visits for each month that records exist by county in 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26442/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (27 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 939. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts being made by her Department to prioritise the job creation needs in Tallaght, noticing the need to tackle the unemployment situation and to cater for the future generations of young persons who will qualify from the area's school and college system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26739/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: Will the Minister comment further on the balanced regional development to which she referred in her opening statement? The 18 counties that cover 70% of the area of the State accounted for less than 2% of the 187,000 persons employed by IDA Ireland-supported companies in 2015. That reinforces what many of us say about the imbalance of regional development and the spread of jobs. Those...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 374. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce an employer pay related social insurance tax credit for new hires for micro-businesses, in order to increase employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26430/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for a bus escort will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24388/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a new build programme at a school (details supplied); the contacts made with the school in respect of the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26242/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide assurances that funding will be found to provide for the necessary works sought by the board of management of a school (details supplied); his views on the importance of the works to the school community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26243/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed building programme for a school (details supplied), including the schedule now being followed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26244/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend on apprenticeship training and a breakdown between the total number of male and female apprentices in training by each employment sector and sub sector in each of the years since 2010 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26425/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason mortgage lenders are not obligated to offer the mortgage to rent scheme to distressed borrowers who are facing home repossession (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24710/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 674. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied); if he and his Government colleagues will ensure workers are able to claim full statutory entitlements; his views on whether current legislation is sufficiently robust to enable workers claim full statutory rights when a business has entered liquidation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Niall Collins: 1452. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that cancer patients admitted to University Hospital Limerick on weekends and bank holidays do not have access to morphine for pain relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26204/16]