Results 501-520 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Injury Claims (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if reports (details supplied) will be clarified regarding plans to hold a referendum in a bid to override the discretion of judges in the awarding of compensation claims should no reduction in damages occur within the next two years. [47660/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Licence Applications (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the approval process for a pan-European savings platform (details supplied) to receive access to the Irish market and provide consumers with increased savings rates. [47655/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 99. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 8 November 2018, the schemes that are being developed between her Department, the Directorate General for Competition and the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development on the development of schemes that do not fall under the General Block Exemption Regulation; if these...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of participants on the rescue and restructuring scheme since it was established in tabular form; and the amount drawn down to date. [47651/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injury Claims (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the latest whiplash data published by Personal Injuries Assessment Board. [47652/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tax Code (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 102. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the latest European Commission proposals for a digital sales tax; and the steps being taken to protect Irish interests. [47653/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on Ireland's continued fall in the rankings of an organisation (details supplied) for the ease of doing business across 190 economies. [47656/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 104. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 25 October 2018, the reason there has been such a drop in companies participating in the 2013 to 2018 scheme compared to the 2007 to 2012 programme; and if there will be a successor programme to cover the 2019 to 2023 period. [47657/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 105. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the new online retail scheme administered by Enterprise Ireland will be made available to Irish-owned micro-sized firms with fewer than ten employees in the retail sector in order to enhance their online presence. [47658/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Regulation (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 106. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date for each of the action points made in the report Measures to Enhance Ireland's Corporate, Economic and Regulatory Framework, published in November 2017; if each such action point has been completed, not completed or is ongoing, respectively; and the revised deadlines for action points not delivered by the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Meat Processing Plant Inspections (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 149. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied with his Department's inspection system in meat factories; if the grading of cattle in the quality assurance scheme is independently validated; if the calibration of grading equipment is regularly inspected to ensure farmers are receiving the correct grades; if his Department has sufficient inspectors overseeing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 8 November 2018, the details of EU agricultural state aid rules and regulations in question; and the ceilings that apply for each regulation. [47649/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date for the roll-out of high-speed broadband for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47523/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (15 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the new youth employment support scheme does not provide for employer payment top-up; and the breakdown of national and EU funding in this regard. [47654/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: It is a new and thought-provoking question and I am happy to wait.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: With regard to apprenticeships in the wet trades and electrical areas, I have always been of the view that there must be pathways out of the traditional areas where we have men up on scaffolding at 55 or 60 years of age. It is not an attractive outcome for any young person making a career choice if there is no further enhancement and development of their skill sets available to allow them to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: The other issue, and this leads me onto questions raised previously, is a pathway and gateway to degree courses and further academic development to master's level for people who may want to take that pathway but are not ready to do so at a younger age. There is very much a "them and us" situation. People either opt for an apprenticeship course in the traditional sense which takes them down...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Good employers built houses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: With regard to construction trades and apprenticeships, what do we do as people get older? We have not been good at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Billy Kelleher: With regard to inspection, is there any role for people who were previously putting the blocks up inspecting the people putting the blocks up? We were probably weak at compliance in building for a time. Is there a role there to progress people into?