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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (24 May 2016)

Tom Neville: 564. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants available for solar farms instead of windmills and the location of the closest grid connection to Broadford, County Limerick. [11271/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Waterways Issues (25 May 2016)

Tom Neville: 225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the repair of a weir; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12001/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (31 May 2016)

Tom Neville: 787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12871/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (31 May 2016)

Tom Neville: 842. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an application under the sports capital programme will be processed for a leisure centre (details supplied). [12506/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (8 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: 529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a single payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14266/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: 658. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the procedures involved in a scenario (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14362/16]

Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: That is not true.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (9 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: 99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) following a carer's allowance appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15176/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (9 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15185/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (14 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: 321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) under the respite care grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15922/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Training Support Grant (21 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: 271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the State supports available by way of training under FÁS or any other avenues that can be explored, to provide necessary training for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16820/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (21 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: 278. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the case of a person (details supplied) regarding payments from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16704/16]

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

Tom Neville: I am delighted to have been selected to sit on this committee. I wish the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Breen and Halligan, the very best of luck in their time in office. My questions will follow on from some of the questions that were asked earlier. I welcome the 10% increase in exports over the past 12 months. Now that exports have reached...

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

Tom Neville: We are pushing for a park in Askeaton, County Limerick. I share the Minister’s view there are several parks around the country.

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

Tom Neville: Again I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. I look forward to welcoming him to Limerick, if we can get him there.

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

Tom Neville: Deputy Quinlivan and I will work together on that. My point is more of an observation on the Minister's comment that "skills are a global currency". I think we have to remember the Irish diaspora and the skills set of the modern Irish emigrant who had to leave in 2008 and 2009, when we had moved from a service to a knowledge-based economy in 2005 onwards. Those who left - be it the...

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

Tom Neville: I agree with the Minister of State that we need the jobs to bring back many who have gone, but we do not need jobs that are 100% of what they are doing, many will return for 70% of the job and because they are in technical innovation, they will grow that role into a different area of research and development. We have to be mindful that it takes less effort to get somebody back than 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)

Tom Neville: I wish to discuss LEOs. I understand the one-stop-shop approach. I have had a lot of interaction with my local LEO and found the service provided to be excellent, given what we were looking for at the time. The biggest problem a small business or sole trader, be it a cabinet maker or plumber, encounters when he or she tries to move from trading into the business world is generating sales....

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

Tom Neville: No.

The Arts: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2016)

Tom Neville: I welcome today's debate. I am a music technology graduate and I completed a master's degree and graduated in September 2008. We all know what happened at that time. The outlook was bleak for anyone who came into the artistic field at the time, given the economic challenges. Obviously, I pursued careers in different circles and did not think I would be standing here today speaking on the...