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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Functions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (1 Apr 2014)

Damien English: Do members have any other questions? I thank our witnesses for their presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Functions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (1 Apr 2014)

Damien English: That is why we invited the PIAB in. It is important to get the story.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Functions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (1 Apr 2014)

Damien English: It is a credit to the witnesses and it is timely to hear from them given the changes in the board due in the next couple of weeks. In following up we always consider presentations and see what areas on which we can focus. There have been some very good suggestions and we need to push forward on them. It is our job to see if we can put on a bit of pressure, along with the witnesses, to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Functions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (1 Apr 2014)

Damien English: I thank Ms Byron. The work the board has done for the past ten years has led to impressive results. Ms Dorothea Dowling, as chairperson of the board, her board members and Ms Byron, the chief executive, have done great work. They are flagging very important issues on which we must work in the future. The results speak for themselves. As a committee, we should certainly be taking the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Functions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (1 Apr 2014)

Damien English: We have come across some of its personalities in the past; therefore, we are not surprised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Functions: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (1 Apr 2014)

Damien English: This meeting is with Ms Dorothea Dowling, chairperson, Mr. Joe O'Toole, vice chairperson, Ms Patricia Byron, chief executive, and Mr. Stephen Watkins, board secretary, of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board to discuss the board's contribution to the economy and opportunities ahead for both citizens and the State. They are all very welcome and I thank them for coming. We had a chance to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Report on Access to Finance for SMEs: InterTradeIreland (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: That concludes today's session. I thank both witnesses for attending. Their report was very informative and will be very useful to our discussion in the next couple of months. The report is very clear and the summary and recommendations set out the three areas on which we have to focus, namely, information, financial capability and diversity. We have argued for a long time that financial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Report on Access to Finance for SMEs: InterTradeIreland (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: It was said that much work was put in at an early stage on Framework Programme 7 funds in the South. Our success goes back to those seven or eight years and it took a long time to get this far. Likewise, if the model can be copied the draw-down will grow in Northern Ireland. The InterTradeIreland representatives are right: there must be a realistic plan. We are looking forward to working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Report on Access to Finance for SMEs: InterTradeIreland (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: Our colleagues in the North have specifically asked that we would work with them on Horizon 2020. I believe InterTradeIreland is also involved because it mentioned it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Report on Access to Finance for SMEs: InterTradeIreland (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: At our last meeting with our Northern Ireland Assembly counterparts, they asked that we would come together jointly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Report on Access to Finance for SMEs: InterTradeIreland (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: There were many questions. Perhaps you will reply to them before we move to the next speaker.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Report on Access to Finance for SMEs: InterTradeIreland (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: I thank Mr. Gough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Report on Access to Finance for SMEs: InterTradeIreland (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: The next topic is a discussion with Mr. Aidan Gough, director of strategy and policy at InterTradeIreland, and Dr. Eoin Magennis, policy research manager at InterTradeIreland, on the report entitled Access to Finance for Growth for SMEs on the Island of Ireland. I welcome Mr. Gough and Dr. Magennis to the meeting. It is timely for the witnesses to be appearing before the committee because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: Before we move on to the further scrutiny of COM (2013) 813, which relates to the protection of trade secrets and is listed in Schedule A for decision, I propose that we deal with nine proposals and four early warning notices that are listed in Schedule B for decision. Is it agreed that COM (2014) 1 be sent for further scrutiny? Agreed. Is it agreed that the other proposals listed in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 13 March 2014, in relation to fines issued to importers of illicit tobacco products and sellers of illicit tobacco products for each of the years, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the number of such fines that were paid in each of the years; the total value in monetary value of such fines that were paid in each of the years;...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: 637. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take to assist those homeowners in residential housing estates with serious health and safety issues due to public lighting not operating, in particular where the estate has not been taken in charge by the local authority and the developer not operating thereby leaving residents with no direct line of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (25 Mar 2014)

Damien English: 775. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Reserve members that made it to stage three of the recruitment process for An Garda Síochána; the weighting given to those applicants that had indicated to have been attested by An Garda Síochána as a reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13582/14]

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2014)

Damien English: I am pleased to contribute to this discussion on the Government's priorities for the year ahead. Nothing is more important for Ireland at this time than maintaining our plan for jobs and growth. As far as I am concerned as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the main priority is the first of those words, "jobs". When the Government took office in 2011, the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (13 Mar 2014)

Damien English: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of fines issued to importers of illicit tobacco products and sellers of illicit tobacco products for each of the years, 2011, 2012 and 2013; the total value of fines issued in monetary value for each of the years; the number of such fines that were paid in each of the years; the total value in monetary value of such fines that were paid in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Places (13 Mar 2014)

Damien English: 221. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to methadone treatment, the number of inpatient residential detox places currently in the State; the location of same for assisting persons with drug addiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12488/14]