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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister for her presentation. She visited Limerick this week with very good news about the jobs to be created by Fazzi. She will be coming down again on Monday. I hope she will come every week and deliver jobs to Limerick. We would be very happy with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: We will be delighted to see the Minister in Limerick, or the region, or anywhere she is delivering jobs because that is what our work here is all about. To return to the matter of IDA Ireland site visits, I got figures from the Minister during the summer. The 2015 figures were disappointing for some counties. She spoke about regions but County Cavan had no site visits last year and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: That is it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: They are good value for money. They are delivering.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: The Minister will be aware from travelling throughout the country that some LEOs are much more progressive than others. If they are doing that bit extra, we might be able to find extra funding for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yes. It set up its own company. It is very impressive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Specifically, has the Minister asked for additional funding in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I was referring to the effect of Brexit on the Border constituencies, especially the food industry in which problems are emerging already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: My question was already asked by Deputy Smith. According to figures from the Minister's office, expenditure on the Low Pay Commission for 2015 was €250,000, of which €155,000 went on pay and €95,000 went on non-pay matters. I am concerned about the rate of remuneration for certain members of the commission. The chair of the Low Pay Commission earned €22,493 from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I assume there were three members from the Department on it because of the sum of €155,000. The chair of the Low Pay Commission received €1,000 per meeting and came back with a recommendation of an extra ten cent per hour, which is insulting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I understand that.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is unbelievable to think that almost six months into the current Government we are still debating this issue. Once again the political system and its ruling elite continue to blatantly ignore the fact that ordinary people are absolutely opposed to the introduction of water charges and that they intend to fight them to the very end. It is not good enough for Fianna Fáil to come into...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (29 Sep 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the Government plans to deliver €1 billion per year to assist local business and new start-ups to access finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22825/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (4 Oct 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 604. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to initiate a debate in relation to the agreed text of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA); when Dáil Éireann will be given the opportunity to vote on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28483/16]

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue and welcome everybody in the Public Gallery. It is great to see so many people here for the debate, especially those who have stayed for the duration of it. Research carried out by the National Suicide Research Foundation on the impact of the recession and austerity found that since 2007 self-harm and suicide rates have...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (5 Oct 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: 44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans, if any, to apply robust social clauses to the local infrastructure fund to prioritise local workers and workers here for employment on any associated schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22826/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I am sharing my time with Deputies Stanley and Ó Caoláin.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yesterday my colleague Deputy Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin's spokesperson for finance, described the budget as profoundly lacking in any vision. I totally agree with him. It lacks any vision or any attempt to sketch out the most basic contours of what a fair Ireland could look like and what we might achieve. The Government, which remains in power only as long as Fianna Fáil deems it...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: We will introduce legislation to change that if we get the opportunity. The pay hike came exactly the same week that the Government, including the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, announced it had accepted the recommendation of the Low Pay Commission that workers on the minimum wage should get a 10 cent increase. How fair is that? Deputies are...