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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Thank you, Mr. O'Connor. I invite Mr. Hynes to make opening remarks on behalf of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Hynes and Ms Blanchfield. I invite Ms Mary Palmer to make the opening statement on behalf of Cork Craft and Design.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Ms Palmer. I now invite Mr. Talbot to make his opening remarks on behalf of Chambers Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Talbot. I now invite members who wish to speak. We have a rota in place. If any member online wishes to speak, he or she may do so by using the raise hand function on Microsoft Teams. The first member to speak is Deputy Louise O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I remind Mr. O'Connor that his colleague online wants to come in but he can go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The next speaker is Senator Garvey. She has seven minutes. She will be followed by Deputy Barry who also has seven minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: As I said, the members decided what we were going to be covering.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Okay. We can go into private session later and discuss that then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I apologise for interrupting but I am conscious of time and Mr. Glanzer wants to come in as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Hynes very much. Well said. It is a nice opportunity. Deputy Stanton wants to come in again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the representatives for assisting the committee in its consideration of this important matter. I propose that we go into private session to consider this and other business. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Mr. Glanzer wants to come in on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The members decided who was coming in, in fairness.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is essential for the optional protocol to the UN CRPD to be ratified. As the Minister indicated in his response, the Government agreed to do so on 8 October. While that is welcome, October is in the dying days of this Dáil. Nobody expects it to last until after Christmas. I do not have to tell people here that those who live their lives with a disability need further support,...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The most recent budget was an opportunity to address some of the challenges faced by social protection payment recipients, especially carers and those with disabilities. It was an opportunity to address the challenges facing those who are carers, a cohort of our people who have been let down by this Government time and again. Being a carer is work, often a labour of love, but it is work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: 641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who presented at the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick and left the hospital before receiving treatment, in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41296/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who presented at the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick and left the hospital before receiving their full-range treatment, in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41297/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: 284. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who was referred 12 months ago to the vascular unit at University Hospital Limerick, and continues to await an appointment with a vascular specialist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40725/24]

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The €250 energy credit does not go far enough, as my colleagues have said. It is quite simply a gesture and does nothing to address runaway energy costs in this State under this Government. The Government has put together a once-off stunt while it has studiously avoided addressing the outrageous burden that these energy costs place on workers and their families. Householders are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yesterday, I was contacted by a Clare woman regarding what she witnessed at University Hospital Limerick, UHL, on Monday evening. She explained that she had spent nine hours at UHL with her elderly mother, who had been referred to the accident and emergency department from north Clare. She described to me her experience of being in the accident and emergency department surrounded by people...