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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: 190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17580/16]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: That Department deals with Pobal and Childminding Ireland.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: Yes. That is because the funding comes from Pobal through the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: I thank the Chair and wish her well in her role. I spent five years in a similar position on a different committee. It is a great honour to be a chairperson of an Oireachtas committee. I am sure that her five year tenure will be very fruitful. I want to wish all the other members of the committee well. This is a very powerful committee and it is very important to be a member of this...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation deals with job permits only. It is the remit of the Department of Justice and Equality to deal with regulation of non-nationals, visas, citizenships and residency and this is a matter for the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald or the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton to address. As Deputy Collins knows, we only issue permits where there is a skills...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: That is the Minister's area and Deputy Mitchell O'Connor can answer that afterwards. The Deputy can ask the question.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: In one way, the transformed LEOs are one stop shops. They are totally different from the local enterprise boards of the past. They give advice and signpost financial assistance, a matter about which we spoke, and other supports for those who wish to start their own business. It is important to note that there are 31 LEOs located around the country and that they work closely with Enterprise...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: The LEOs work. They are a resource where people want to start a business, but there is progression in the way a company moves on. The LEOs work with all start-up companies. They also work with sole traders. If one compares the numbers of jobs created by LEOs last year with the results for the year before, there is a probably a reduction in some areas because some of those businesses...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: Yes.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: The commission is statutorily mandated to submit its report and recommendations in the third week of July each year.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: Which subhead is that?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: Subhead C6 refers to trade union amalgamations.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: Which subhead is it?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: Yes. In addition to any dispute, as the Deputy knows-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: The industrial relations machinery to resolve disputes has been set up in the past 12 months . We have seen the workings of the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court. One can see the difference they have made by comparing the number of days lost through industrial disputes in 2015 with the number of days lost in the first quarter of 2016. One can see that a total 5,115 days...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the two outgoing people who have served in the Labour Court and the Workplace Relations Commission. Both of the individuals were very experienced operators. I understand that interviews will be completed by the end of the month and that a decision will be made soon afterwards in terms of the appointment of two new people to two very important positions.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: Deputy Neville asked about training courses. LEOs provide sales courses to companies on an ongoing basis. It is a very important part of their work. For any company to have a plan in place, it needs to be able to market what it is producing. If a company has to access finance, ensuring it has a proper sales programme will be very much part of its plan. Our trading online vouchers...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: Yesterday's figures from Enterprise Ireland speak volumes about the work that has been done for SMEs and the work on exports. In my area, the changes and reforms to the industrial relations machinery are very important and we should be very proud of them. It was done under the previous Government. My former colleague, the then Minister, Gerald Nash and the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide additional hours to a person (details supplied) under the special needs assistance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16665/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (21 Jun 2016)

Pat Breen: 279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16768/16]