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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I have no question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I thank the witnesses for their contribution. The fact that local authorities will have stronger powers and local politicians a greater say in the authorities’ activities will help towns develop. Before now, when funding came from a central source, there was a problem about how it would be spent. It was centrally controlled. That it is now local is very important. My view on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Payments (19 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the National Treatment Purchase Fund spend for 2013; this amount as a percentage of the total health spend in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26372/14]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I somewhat expected that answer and I understand that a trustee has to represent everybody who is a member of a pension fund. What I am trying to get across, however, is that some members of that pension fund - the deferred pension members - do not have a right to vote. Nor do they have the right to go forward as trustees. My amendment seeks to give them an equal right similar to the...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: Is the Minister of State assuring me there will be a review of this when the report comes before the Minister in the autumn?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: Okay. I will not press the amendment as the Minister will have the report in early autumn.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I move amendment No. 23:In page 23, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:"(2) The definition of a qualified member as a trustee of a pension fund and the definition of a person eligible to vote for the trustee of a pension fund means an active member or deferred member or a pensioner member of the relevant scheme on that date or on such previous date.".This arises out of an...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: The Deputy can blame Fianna Fáil for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (17 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: My Y chromosome comes through every now and again. The witnesses should be embracing the online phenomenon more strongly. Some days ago I called into a little boutique in Naas that has been established for about a year and a half. I asked the proprietor how she was doing and she said she was flying. She told me she has a good clientele who must come to her shop to pick up what they buy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (17 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: The representative body is being specific about the centre of Dublin. I hope the delegation will return to talk about smaller towns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: Discussion (17 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the delegates. As with Deputy Kyne, I believe this discussion is very Dublin city centre orientated. I remember getting my rear end kicked when I was very much in support of an outlet shop in Goffs in Kill. Local traders could see the damage that was going to be done to them on a long-term basis as a consequence of traders coming from Grafton Street. I am talking about rural...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (17 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: 335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the respite care grant is only awarded to persons in receipt of carer's allowance, carer's benefit, domiciliary care allowance or prescribed relative's allowance on the first Thursday of June each year; her views that this is very unfair on persons who may have been in receipt of these payments but the person they were caring for...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I thank members for allowing me to comment on a matter that I will raise on Report Stage. It relates to the definition of a trustee in terms of pension schemes and those who are allowed to vote for trustees. As the Bill excludes deferred members, it is my intention to table an amendment that will allow deferred members to have voting rights in this regard and to become trustees.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Supports for SME Sector: European Commission (11 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: Briefly, I refer to a point on which the director general touched regarding entrepreneurs and the number of young people who are employed. Initiatives here such as microfinance funding have been changed to place more emphasis on young people. Can members envisage something coming from Europe to push a separate guaranteed fund that could be disseminated here for young people who have that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (10 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the witnesses. I come across a number of people who are looking for work permits for people in the categories that have been mentioned. Can the witnesses identify categories for which we might make a case to the Minister to have them included in the legislation? Rather than speaking generally, can the witnesses identify specific categories? I know that the linen trade is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: We are looking for the EU to act as guarantor for some of these funds rather than actually providing the funds. Could the €500 billion to protect the banking sector or the financial sector be used in some way to guarantee the funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the Minister. I return to Senator Quinn's analogy of his aunt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I refer to the analogy of the aunt coming in and criticising the furniture but sometimes we should criticise the aunt because she might not always have her make-up matching her clothes. I compare this analogy to the banking sector, where they are a bit critical of the amount of funding that has been made available to SMEs while there is plenty of funding available to SMEs. I suggest that we...

Local and Community Development Programmes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this topic. Deputy Ó Fearghaíl is from the same constituency as me, where we have had a chequered history with Leader partnerships. Years back, there were three companies in Kildare, and when three companies are putting out the same pot, there are three sets of administration. Most of the money ended up going on administration. They...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I want to focus on Part 3 and an amendment I will table. Part 3 deals with notification to trustees of a change by the pensions authority to the members of the pension fund. My amendment will be on the definition of trustees, how they are elected and who has voting rights. This revolves around the deferred members who have no say in the...