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Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I indicated yesterday that I had questions about this proposal. I would like to tease it out a little more. There is an issue with the BER ratings which are provided for in the Residential Tenancies Act. I ask the Minister of State to clarify the position. He has stated the rent set for a protected structure is the market rent. Does that mean that a landlord may set the rent at whatever...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I echo the point that I made last night and that has been made again in this debate about making this very long amendment to the Bill even though it does not concern this legislation. I have expressed a different view from Deputy Ó Broin regarding the question of the Planning Regulator. That the Minister must explain to the Houses if he or she is taking a different view from the...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister of State has not told us anything about amendments Nos. 4 and 5.

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am seeking clarity. There are only two times in the year when there can be a change. One is when the rate is made and the other is on 1 January following that. Is that correct?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new apprenticeship programmes developed since 2017 will receive the same allowances for apprentices attending college as apprenticeships developed prior to 2017; if he will seek equality of allowances for all apprenticeships in Budget 2020; the estimated cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28614/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprenticeships developed since 2017; the number of apprentices enrolled per apprenticeship programme developed since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28615/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 218. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a hearing will be held in the Labour Court in relation to an unfair dismissals case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28395/19]

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: We will not obstruct this motion either because these are things that need to be done. I share Deputy Ó Broin's concern about the process. We did not deal with the issues at the appropriate time. I am especially concerned about student accommodation, a relatively recent issue for the Houses of the Oireachtas, which we all campaigned for and welcome. Dealing with it in this way is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a permanent extension by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27840/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special needs assistants and other workers in the primary and second-level education system will be provided with the same entitlement to paid annual leave that is provided to teachers to allow them to serve on public bodies such as local authorities; the reason this right is denied to special needs assistants; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons presenting to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, with alcohol and drug misuse related issues from 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27612/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Centres (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the driver test centre will open in Drogheda, County Louth; if the centre will be permanent; the location of the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27621/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated to Shannon Airport in view of the fact that other airports have recently received significant funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27779/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I previously raised a question about the medical technology sector and the standardisation done in Britain. There is an issue related to that which may not have been resolved where, if Britain leaves, medical technology companies may not be able to use that standardisation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 10. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures taken following research published in July 2018 by her Department and the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI which indicated that Irish firms sourced over half of their supply chain materials from the UK in the context of growing concerns that a hard Brexit may occur later in 2019; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: My question follows on from Question No. 7. It relates to the report from which I quoted. It was published by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation and the ESRI and concerns the reliance on exports to the United Kingdom, particularly in respect of the supply chain. Will the Minister outline what measures are being taken to address the issue?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Brexit is coming down the tracks very quickly, if 31 October is to be the date on which it will happen. I am somewhat worried that the Minister is concerned about the delay on the part of many companies that the Department seems to have identified, despite the advice they have been given. The Minister referred to regional advice clinics in various places. How exactly is the Department...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: It seems more likely now that we may face a hard Brexit with the change of Prime Minister in the United Kingdom. The question is around the percentage of goods and services imported from the United Kingdom and exported from Ireland to the United Kingdom, and how that has changed since the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for the information. There is some encouragement, in so far as there is growth in exports to the European market and the US market. There is concern, and maybe the Minister can respond to this, that the level of imports is much the same as it was in 2015 and while the percentage level of exports to the UK has gone down, their value has gone up. Clearly, we are still...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: In relation to food, the closer markets are more important in the sense that one does not want to be sending food thousands of miles across the world for all sorts of reasons. Will there be a step-up in efforts to get a greater extent of the market in the European Union and European countries generally?