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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Gender Balance (14 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 629. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she intends to take to increase female participation in the labour market and to deal with the issue of part-time under-employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16037/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (14 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 630. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to provide a detailed breakdown by sector, employment status in terms of post, rate of pay, full-time and part-time, of the 3,500 new jobs supported by local enterprise offices in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16038/16]

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will make retention of the 9% value added tax rate to the hospitality sector conditional on its engagement with the Labour Relations Commission and acceptance of registered employment agreements, given that this sector has an embedded culture of widespread low pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16247/16]

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The hospitality sector has always been an important part of the economy. The sector is experiencing a period of growth and employs more than 137,000 people. More than 23,000 jobs have been created in hospitality since 2011, largely supported by lower VAT rates. According to the Irish Hotels Federation, the national hotel occupancy rate is at a ten-year high and 82% of hoteliers across the...

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The reality for workers in the hospitality sector is that more than 50% of the 130,000 people working in accommodation and food services earn less than €400 per week. In addition, 17% of all other employees in the sector earn only the national minimum hourly wage and 41% of employees in the sector work part-time. While the average wage is €697.52, in the hospitality sector it...

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Ireland is a deeply unequal society in which service workers, predominately women, are undervalued and underpaid.

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I suggest that the retention of the lower VAT rate be conditional on the hospitality industry engaging with trade unions.

Priority Questions: VAT Rate Application (15 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The refusal by employers in the hospitality sector to participate in the joint labour committees structure and agree on the terms, pay and conditions of employment is not acceptable, particularly when the same sector is in receipt of significant public moneys.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I start by thanking the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit for bringing forward this motion. Last January, Deputy Alan Kelly, at the stroke of a pen, introduced SI 24. The rationale for this was that 90% of families and households would pay less to have their bin collected. Fast forward, however, to June 2016 and the truth emerges of what the costs will be and it now transpires...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 553. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her strategy for job creation on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal; how Inishowen can benefit from the designation of Letterkenny as a gateway town and from the Letterkenny-Derry gateway initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16854/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 554. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits to County Donegal by potential investors organised by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland in each of the years 2009 to 2016 to date. [16855/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 556. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her role in working in partnership with her northern counterpart, in marketing the north west cross-Border region of counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh for inward investment and job creation. [16857/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 555. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits organised by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland, for potential investors, by county, in each of the years 2009 to 2016 to date. [16856/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 561. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware of the dispute at the Garda Síochána Training College in Templemore, County Tipperary where contract cleaners have been brought in without consultation with the Mandate trade union which represents permanent workers employed by the Office of Public Works and without the latter being given the opportunity to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister for attending. I congratulate the Chairman on her election to the post. I am delighted to be a member of the committee. Under the IDA, the Minister referred to property investment of €12 million to support new buildings and strategic sites. Does she have a list of those?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: We can get it later on.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: There is an announcement of €12 million for regional property investment. Could we get a list of where they are?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: In the second year, unfortunately.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Minister said there were three locations for this year. Will they be delivered this year? If companies were ready to move in, would they be ready this year in Sligo, Tralee and Castlebar?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister and Minister of State for their presentations. I thank both the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor and the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan for acceding to our request to meet us, be it in Limerick or elsewhere. Will the Minister of State explain the 11% reduction in total expenditure for innovation in the Estimates? It is section B on page 80 of the Revised Estimates.