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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Damien English: Those questions would be better in the next session. I want to close this session as soon as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Damien English: The option is open to us and we can make that decision ourselves. For the purpose of this meeting, however, the Secretary General can assist us in scrutinising and assessing a particular issue in depth. It is up to us to take that initiative and organise it here with the help of the Department when we need it. The proposals will come down to us anyway as soon as they are ready to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Damien English: I call Senator Quinn who will be followed by Deputy Áine Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Damien English: That is more our fault than the secretary general's. It was on our agenda for October and November but the committee postponed it on both occasions. We also prioritised pre-Council meetings and the Department has been very helpful. The Minister also came here before the Council meeting, which makes more sense. The problem was the committee's agenda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Damien English: I thank the Secretary General. It was down to our agenda problems that we did not have him before the committee previously to discuss the report. I am conscious it deals with the first six months of last year. We intended to discuss it in November but we had to defer it. We will bring the Secretary General before the committee again immediately after the Presidency when we are ready to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Damien English: Is a mobile phone nearby? It is causing a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2013)

Damien English: As we have a quorum, we are now in public session. Apologies have been received from Deputy John Lyons, who is representing us in Brussels, and also from Senators Mary White and Michael Mullins. We will now go into private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Jan 2013)

Damien English: The purpose of this meeting is the consideration of the six-monthly EU scrutiny report of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, in particular the smart regulation agenda, COSME, Horizon 2020 and state aid modernisation. I welcome Mr. John Murphy, Secretary General of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, and his colleagues to the meeting. He is accompanied by Mr....

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2013)

Damien English: I wish to share time with Deputies Tom Hayes and Sean Conlan. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate. This amending Bill is important and timely, reflecting the growing move in society away from owning a home to renting. The Irish practice of home and property ownership is, rightly, deeply ingrained, given our historic experiences of famine and the land war....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (23 Jan 2013)

Damien English: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 224 of 19 October 2010, if he will detail by year the number of persons who have telephoned Revenue’s cigarette smuggling hotline since its introduction; if he will detail the number of Revenue staff manning the hotline and the cost of operating the hotline; if he will provide a breakdown by region of the origin of calls...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (23 Jan 2013)

Damien English: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail when he proposes to transpose Directive 2011/7/EU on the new late payments directive into Irish law; if he will detail the way this directive may help small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3363/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (23 Jan 2013)

Damien English: To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question 639 of 3 July 2012, when his Department will publish submissions made to second public consultation process on the Your Health Is Your Wealth - Health and Wellbeing Framework 2012-2010 which closed on 1 June 2012; if he has submitted the memorandum on the framework to Government; if he will publish this memorandum; if he will...

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Damien English: Not the ones that are needed.

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Damien English: They will not.

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Damien English: And it is in a mess.

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Damien English: Of course.

Further Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2013)

Damien English: I welcome the chance to contribute on this motion proposed by Fianna Fáil in Private Members' time although I do not know what to make of it. Sometimes I read these motions and get angry at them or laugh at them. However, I listened to the debate last night in which speakers were criticising the numbers in PLC courses, complaining that the pupil-teacher ratio had changed from 17:1 to...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jan 2013)

Damien English: I will share with my colleague, Deputy Frank Feighan, a Roscommon man. I welcome the Bill and the work and the efforts of the Minister for Health and his Department to try to tackle this area. I listened to the contribution of Deputy Mathews. Certainly, there is a good deal we can do through legislation and various Bills, but education is important as well. We need to convince people at a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears (16 Jan 2013)

Damien English: To ask the Minister for Finance in the instance whereby a financial institution (details supplied) has sold all rights, title, interests and benefits of a mortgage loan agreement to another financial institution, how stands a persons rights under the mortgage arrears protection scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1160/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy (16 Jan 2013)

Damien English: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to encourage the use of solar photovoltaic cells as micro generators of electricity for end users of the residential sector; his plans to introduce a REFIT tariff to encourage the use of PV cells to generate electricity in this sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57775/12]