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Thu, 12 Oct 2017
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Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Niall Collins
58. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the study by the CCPC into the personal contract plan car finance market. [43343/17]
Thu, 12 Oct 2017
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Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Niall Collins
59. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding investigation into suspected anti-competitive conduct in the ticketing sector by the CCPC. [43344/17]
Thu, 12 Oct 2017
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Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases
Róisín Shortall
60. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the report on the collapse of a trial (details supplied) which was submitted to her by the ODCE in July 2017; if she has received the advice she sought from the Attorney General on this matter; her plans in relation to this report and the future of the agency; her views on media reports that the Government is considering replacing the ODCE with a new stand-alone agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43203/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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National Standards Authority of Ireland
Maria Bailey
73. Deputy Maria Bailey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the NSAI appears unwilling to accept that the method of measuring the aperture of vehicles to establish compliance with EU Regulation 678/2011 is open to interpretation in view of the report by a person (details supplied) which has been furnished to the NSAI. [43123/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Brexit Issues
Brendan Smith
74. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if specific measures will be introduced to assist businesses in the Border region which have been impacted adversely by the fall in the value of sterling and sectors that are dependent on Northern Ireland and Britain as export markets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43143/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Foreign Direct Investment
Brendan Smith
75. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when decisions are likely to be made in relation to the identification of suitable sites as locations for the establishment of data centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43144/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Foreign Direct Investment
Brendan Smith
76. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if centres (details supplied) have been given further consideration in respect of the location of inward investment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43145/17]
Wed, 11 Oct 2017
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Research Centres Programme
James Lawless
77. Deputy James Lawless asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she has given consideration to the provision of an annual funding scheme for the provision of physical infrastructure such as equipment, buildings, libraries and laboratories untied to specific centres or priority areas to further research activities in third level institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43136/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Investigations
Clare Daly
8. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if special measures are put in place with regard to monitoring the activities of companies reported to the ODCE for serious transgressions while those investigations are ongoing, such as in the case of a company (details supplied) which continues to operate. [43001/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Health and Safety Inspections
Charlie McConalogue
9. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the request made by the CEO of the Health and Safety Authority that 50 inspectors are needed to ensure farm safety; the number of farm safety inspectors employed by the HSA; and the number of new inspectors that have been hired to date in 2017 in relation farm safety. [42495/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Local Enterprise Offices Data
Shane Cassells
10. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of LEO business expansion grants given to businesses in County Meath in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42683/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Local Enterprise Offices Data
Shane Cassells
11. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding under the LEO business expansion grant allocated to businesses in County Meath in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42684/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Local Enterprise Offices Data
Shane Cassells
12. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the average grant amount given to businesses in County Meath under the LEO business expansion grant in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42685/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Local Enterprise Offices Data
Shane Cassells
13. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number and value of LEO grants allocated to businesses in County Meath in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42686/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Local Enterprise Offices Data
Shane Cassells
14. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the grant amounts and number of grants allocated by the Meath LEO in 2016 to businesses by sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42687/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Ministerial Functions
Billy Kelleher
15. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the powers she has delegated to the Ministers of State in her Department; the date on which such delegation was made; if there were changes in powers delegated relative to the situation in place prior to 14 June 2017; if so, the details of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42773/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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IDA Ireland Jobs Data
Pat the Cope Gallagher
16. Deputy Pat The Cope Gallagher asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of newly created IDA backed jobs in County Donegal between 2012 and 2016; the number of IDA site visits that have occurred in County Donegal between 2016 and 2017 involving new and prospective IDA clients; her future development plans for job creation within the county over the next four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42859/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Action Plan for Jobs
Anne Rabbitte
17. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs that have been created under the Action Plan for Jobs 2017 (details supplied); the regions, sectors and targets for 31 December 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42936/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Foreign Direct Investment
Peadar Tóibín
18. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of small scale sector appropriate foreign direct investment enterprises that have been brought to small rural towns by the IDA over each of the past five years. [42965/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Lobbying Data
Róisín Shortall
19. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of occasions on which she has been lobbied in respect of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill since March 2016; the persons she has met with; the dates of these meetings; the details of the basis of the lobbying; her views on the issues raised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42284/17]
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Seán Sherlock
20. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the regulations in place for pricing algorithms in the tourism and hospitality sector. [42370/17]
Wed, 4 Oct 2017
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Skills Shortages
Anne Rabbitte
85. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to expand the EGFSN to include the HGV mechanics in view of the fact there appears to be a shortage of this skilled labour here. [42088/17]
Wed, 4 Oct 2017
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Employment Rights
Bernard Durkan
86. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if a breach of labour law has occurred in the case of a former employee of an organisation (details supplied) who is concerned that their claims have not yet been investigated but have been relieved of their responsibilities in the interim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42132/17]
Tue, 3 Oct 2017
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Local Enterprise Offices Establishment
Fergus O'Dowd
94. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she has given consideration to the setting up of a local enterprise office in Drogheda (details supplied) as part of a collective response to Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41409/17]
Tue, 3 Oct 2017
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Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Niall Collins
95. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has examined empowering the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to issue civil fines for anti-competitive practices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41477/17]
Tue, 3 Oct 2017
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Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Niall Collins
96. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether the search powers of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, are sufficient to investigate anti-competitive practices; if the CCPC is sufficiently empowered to carry out dawn raids in circumstances in which it suspects anti-competitive practices are taking place; if restrictions exist in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41478/17]
Tue, 3 Oct 2017
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Ticket Touting
Niall Collins
97. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the legislative and non-legislative proposals being considered by her Department to strengthen the regulation of the resale of tickets for entertainment and sporting events in view of the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41574/17]
Tue, 3 Oct 2017
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Labour Court Recommendations
Eamon Scanlon
98. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when an order to effect the terms of the Labour Court recommendation on construction workers' pay, as provided for in the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015, is expected to be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41783/17]
Thu, 28 Sep 2017
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Employment Rights
Michael McGrath
81. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 20 September 2017, if the legal obligation to comply with the order in terms of rates of pay and so on only relates to the employer concerned; if there will be an obligation on the end user of the employee's services in which, for example, an agency is the employer but a building contractor is the end user of the employee's services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41074/17]
Thu, 28 Sep 2017
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Work Permits Applications
Bernard Durkan
82. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if an application for a work permit, critical skills category, can be reconsidered in the case of a company (details supplied) in respect of a person in view of the precise requirements of the employer and the skills of the applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41138/17]
Thu, 28 Sep 2017
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Enterprise Support Schemes
Maurice Quinlivan
83. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of public submissions that were made in respect of the ConnectIreland review; when these submissions will be made public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41144/17]
Thu, 28 Sep 2017
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Enterprise Support Schemes
Maurice Quinlivan
84. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the terms of reference of the review into the Succeed-in-Ireland programme will be published; and the person or body that will undertake the independent review into the programme. [41145/17]
Thu, 28 Sep 2017
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Ticket Touting
Maurice Quinlivan
85. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the action she is taking to combat the problem of ticket touting. [41146/17]
Thu, 28 Sep 2017
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Legislative Measures
Niall Collins
86. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will consider reviewing the Employment Permits Act 2006 whereby an advertisement relating to the proposed employment has to run in a national newspaper for three days as is required under regulations 31(1) and 44(1) of the Employment Permits Regulations 2017; if her attention has been drawn to this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41210/17]
Wed, 27 Sep 2017
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Ministerial Responsibilities
Dara Calleary
81. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Ministers of State attached to her Department; the responsibilities of each; if designated powers have been signed by her and assigned to the relevant Ministers of State; the date on which each designation was signed; the reason in circumstances in which no such designation has been made, this has not occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40792/17]
Wed, 27 Sep 2017
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IDA Ireland Offices
Alan Farrell
82. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she has given consideration to reopening the IDA offices in Taipei to expand Ireland's trade and investment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40845/17]
Wed, 27 Sep 2017
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Trade Promotion
James Browne
83. Deputy James Browne asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she and Enterprise Ireland will take to promote Irish business in Taiwan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40875/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Brexit Issues
Bernard Durkan
47. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which companies suffering from fallout from Brexit are likely to have their case considered and examined in the short term with a view to development of a strategy in the interim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40078/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Brexit Issues
Bernard Durkan
48. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which her Department has redoubled its efforts to establish new markets inside and outside the European Union for Irish products in order to compensate for the consequences of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40091/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Brexit Issues
Bernard Durkan
49. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which new trading links for Ireland continue to be established globally; the extent to which it is expected that Ireland can benefit from such developments in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40093/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Enterprise Data
Niall Collins
50. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of enterprise start-ups by sector in each of the years 2006 to 2016 in tabular form. [40118/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Staff
Niall Collins
51. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the recruitment of a digital forensics specialist within the ODCE. [40120/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
Niall Collins
52. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the ratification process for ratifying CETA; and the timeframe for the trade agreement be voted on by Dáil Éireann. [40122/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Trade Agreements
Niall Collins
53. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the developments at EU level on preliminary discussions for a potential trade deal with Australia and New Zealand. [40123/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Workplace Relations Commission
Niall Collins
54. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if the Workplace Relations Commission remains under the remit of her Department with respect to services (details supplied). [40124/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Departmental Administrative Arrangements
Niall Collins
55. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the employment and industrial relations Acts that her Department has lead responsibility to enforce. [40125/17]
Thu, 21 Sep 2017
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Enterprise Ireland Funding
Niall Collins
56. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland exporting client companies that have availed of be prepared grants to date, by county, in tabular form. [40126/17]
Wed, 20 Sep 2017
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Brexit Issues
Michael Healy-Rae
124. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a Brexit regional adjustment fund to provide the regions with new trade routes and to upgrade existing ones; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39054/17]
Wed, 20 Sep 2017
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Work Permits Applications
Bernard Durkan
125. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if an application for a work permit can be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39636/17]
Wed, 20 Sep 2017
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IDA Ireland Portfolio
Dara Calleary
126. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the ownership status of an IDA Ireland site (details supplied) in County Galway; the lease agreement on the site; if a lease agreement is in place; IDA Ireland's plans to develop another site in the town; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39083/17]