Results 161-180 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (13 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 177. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 155 and 156 of 16 January 2019, if the 2018 data have been collated. [12694/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Expenditure (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding expended by his Department in promoting and hosting all Getting Ireland Brexit Ready events to date; the costs associated with advertising, design work, photography, event staging and venue hire, print and online media advertising and public relations in tabular form; the budget allocated in his Department for the Getting...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adult applications for naturalisation based on Irish association granted in 2018. [11687/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which a person can apply for naturalisation based on Irish descent or Irish association without residing here. [11688/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person is applying for naturalisation based on Irish association, if there are circumstances in which time spent here on a stamp 2 would be considered for the three year residency requirement. [11689/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 250. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applicants and participants in Brexit schemes and supports provided by her Department or agencies under her remit in tabular form; and the amount allocated and expended to each such scheme in each year since being established. [12421/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 251. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of firms that have applied for working capital under the Brexit SME loan scheme; the number of firms that have been sanctioned financing to date by firm size (details supplied); and the total value of same in tabular form. [12422/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 252. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the latest figures regarding the Brexit SME loan scheme launched in March 2018 for items (details supplied) in tabular form. [12423/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 253. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the future growth loan scheme announced in budget 2018 will open for applications; the terms and conditions of this scheme; and the length of time the scheme will stay open for applications. [12424/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Ireland (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied with the supports provided to an organisation (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the importance of the industry to rural Ireland; his views on whether more funding should be provided for dispersal to various persons and organisations that support and underpin this sector of the equine...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 539. 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. [11709/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the regional spread of additional jobs added over 2018. [11389/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: I wish to ask the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation about the regional spread of additional jobs added over 2018. We have raised this issue a couple of times. There is no point in us saying there is a regional balance in job creation through IDA Ireland as more than half of the new jobs created are in the Dublin area, while the rest of the country is being neglected. Perhaps...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: We can quote statistics all day long, but when one drills down into the macro statistics, we have to accept that there are pockets in Ireland that have not benefited. In Deputy Eugene Murphy's constituency of Roscommon, for example, some 900 people leave the county every morning to travel to work in Dublin. There is a huge regional imbalance. I put it to the Minister that 51% of the jobs...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: I can throw out statistics across all day long, but the simple fact from the CSO labour force survey for quarter 4 of 2018 is that 51% of the jobs created were in Dublin. I am referring to gains. In the Border region there was a 0% gain. There was also a 0% gain in the mid-west. That is the harsh reality of life in rural Ireland, as I do not need to tell the Minister who is a Deputy for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 1. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has submitted a request or is preparing to submit a request at EU level to revise state aid rules as set out in EU Regulation No. 1407/2013 to protect exposed enterprises and exporters from Brexit; the status of progress being made at EU level to increase state aid thresholds to support enterprises in the event of a hard...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: In the context of the hard Brexit that we may be facing on 29 March and the need for the State to be able to respond immediately in the event of a catastrophic impact on businesses that export to the UK market, has the Government made a formal request to the EU to revise state aid rules?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: We appreciate all of the efforts that have been made to date in terms of business supports and encouraging people to Brexit proof themselves, but the larger issue is that all of the loans mentioned fall within current state aid rules as they stand. What is being proposed is not outside the norm of state aid obligations. We must have a system in place that will allow for an immediate...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Brexit Preparations (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: We are all trying to support businesses. However, what is important is not the amount of money that is available in the pot but the amount that can be made available to an individual company out of it. If there is a rapid devaluation of sterling, Irish companies that are wholly dependent on the UK market will be in an immediate crisis situation in the first week of April. We should not have...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (7 Mar 2019)

Billy Kelleher: 25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions being taken to reduce the costs of doing business in Ireland and reverse competitiveness deficiencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11167/19]