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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 169. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation as the lead Minister for the Action Plan for Jobs, with regard to improving credit to small and medium enterprises, if he has examined the crowd-funding model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19257/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 170. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the concept of vouchers for new start-ups and entrepreneurs, which would provide financial assistance and business advice in the early start-up phase, has been explored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19259/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 171. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has considered treating micro-enterprises as distinct from the small and medium enterprise group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19261/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Procurement Regulations (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 172. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has considered ring-fencing moneys in his Department directly to procurements of innovation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19262/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Quality Assurance (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 173. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to provide businesses which comply with the regulatory framework with a quality insurance and national and international branding for services and goods provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19263/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Applications (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 208. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois, whose appeal against his Department's decision failed as the medical evidence provided was deemed to be insufficient; if he will reopen the case, as it is clear that the person was treated badly and unfairly by his Department; and if he will expedite a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 350. To ask the Minister for Health the issues being dealt with between his Department, the Health Service Executive and Camphill Communities of Ireland; if the funding issue will be resolved; and his plans in this regard. [19581/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for registration with An Bord Altranais, in respect of a person (details supplied) in Scotland who is a qualified nurse starting work in County Kilkenny on 15 June 2015, and who applied for registration on 24 December 2014; and the reason for the delay in processing this application, in view of the fact that all of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 355. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide long-term care in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in view of the fact the person has been given 28 days notice of the termination of care, due to lack of funding; and if his Department and the Health Service Executive will resolve all of the issues, relative to the person's care at Camphill Community, County...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills as the lead Minister for the Action Plan for Jobs, if she will provide details of all Government agencies that have apprenticeship schemes in place; the number of persons currently enrolled on these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19264/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Calculations (19 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 469. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has examined introducing one uniform mechanism for calculating commercial rates; if the exemption of crèches from rates has been examined; his views on allocating a proportion of rates for the mentoring of new local enterprise start-ups and entrepreneurs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19258/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 7 May 2015 agreed to? Agreed. There are no matters arising from the minutes. We will move to correspondence received since the meeting of 7 May 2015 from Accounting Officers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence, dated 5 May 2015, from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. It follows up on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Yes, that is the issue I am raising now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: We can ask for an update.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: The HEA and the Department will be before us as part of our work schedule so we can deal with the matter later on. No. 3A.4 is correspondence, dated 11 May 2015, from the Health Service Executive and is a follow-up to our meeting of 23 April 2015. Members can see the information on screen. In regard to the matter raised by Deputy Costello, which I will deal with now rather than raise...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: I have no difficulty with that, Deputy Deasy, save to say that what Deputy Costello has raised and what I have raised are almost separate from the particular issue of Waterford and Carlow ITs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: It is a broader issue of governance and reporting between the colleges and the Department, and, in turn, reporting between the Department, the HEA and the Committee of Public Accounts. It is obvious that we are not getting the information. It is clear to me that there is almost an attempt not to give us full information, and that is not acceptable.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: It might be no harm if he was invited in and heard the exchange in respect of the issues that have already come before the Committee of Public Accounts and which have not been answered by the Department in any way, shape or form. This has to do with a serious lack of governance and control of taxpayers' money.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: We were dealing with correspondence from the HSE which is a follow-up from the 23 April 2015 meeting. There are a number of other outstanding matters that the executive has to deal with but this correspondence answers some of the questions raised. In the context of the HSE reflecting on our meeting I suggest that we forward a transcript of that meeting to the Garda Commissioner in light of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Maybe it is appropriate, then, given that proposition, to ask the clerk to do a short report on the basis of that meeting. The members can feed into that and it could be done for next week.