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Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Thomas Pringle
654. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way the Government can explain its position that the ISDS of CETA is compatible with EU law (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19577/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Thomas Pringle
655. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Government will explain its position that the ISDS of CETA is compatible with EU law; the reason the Government does not invoke Article 218.11 of the TFEU and ask the ECJ to deliver a legal ruling as to whether or not ISDS is compatible with EU law (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19578/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Thomas Pringle
656. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way on the one hand intra-EU bilateral investment treaties with investor-state dispute settlement, ISDS, promote discrimination based on nationality, but somehow, in a post Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement legal landscape, allowing Canadian businesses or EU-businesses with a Canadian owner, to have privileged access to a legal remedy, namely ISDS, does not allow for discrimination based on nationality (details supplied). [19579/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Thomas Pringle
657. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason for the Government's support for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and its investor-state dispute settlement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19580/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Thomas Pringle
658. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way the Government intends to protect Irish citizens from the European Union Commission’s proposal to provisionally apply the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, prior to a definitive legal ruling as to the distribution of competences relating to new proposals to subject the EU to an investor-state dispute settlement under the CETA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19581/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Legislative Reviews
Joan Burton
659. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will undertake a full review of the rights of artists here, including a thorough examination of our existing copyright laws and the current Competition Act. [19823/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Local Enterprise Offices Establishment
Fergus O'Dowd
660. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will establish a local enterprise office in Drogheda, County Louth, following the recent referendum decision in the United Kingdom (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19131/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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UK Referendum on EU Membership
Niall Collins
661. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the findings of a risk assessment report in 2013 regarding contingency plans considered in the event of Brexit and whether Enterprise Ireland had sufficient resources in place, including staff allocations, to deal with such an outcome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19300/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Waste Disposal Charges
Clare Daly
662. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a company (details supplied) is in breach of consumer protection legislation by automatically opting customers into a pay-by-weight system on 1 August 2016 unless customers contact the company themselves before 1 August 2016 to state that they wish to opt out and avail of the 12-month price freeze announced by Government last week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19448/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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EU Directives
Alan Kelly
663. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures that have been adopted to date to transpose Directive 2014/104/EU on private party actions for damages for infringements of European Union competition law; the further measures proposed; if it is intended that the directive will be fully transposed into national law by 27 December 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19547/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
Alan Kelly
664. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is concerned that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, received the lowest ranking of any antitrust enforcement agency worldwide in the 2015 Global Competition Review ratings; if she will give consideration to both a staffing and organisational review of the CCPC, in particular regarding cartel investigations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19548/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
665. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the European Commission will present a proposal to the Council of Ministers asking the Council to vote to give the Commission the authority to sign-off on the final text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the Canadian government (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19595/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
666. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Government gets access to the wording of the proposal to conclude the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; if she will make public the Commission’s proposal prior to the Council of Ministers' vote on the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19596/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
667. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will publish the position as to provisionally applying the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19597/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
668. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware that Article 29.5.2 of the Constitution places an imperative on the State to have any international agreement involving a charge upon public funds to be approved by Dáil Éireann and that as such, should the Council of Ministers vote by a qualified majority vote to approve the signing and provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and considering the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism of the agreement is designed specifically to allow for a charge upon public funds, this would be in breach of the Constitution, whereby Ireland could be the subject of settlement cases which lead to a charge upon public funds prior to Dáil Éireann approving the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19598/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
669. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how she can assert that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the investor state dispute settlement will not be enforced upon Ireland prior to Dáil Éirean approving the agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19599/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
670. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the necessity test being used to inform the Government position on the provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19600/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
671. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19601/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
672. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will explain her position that the investor state dispute settlement of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is compatible with European Union law; and why she does not invoke Article 218.11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and ask the European Court of Justice to deliver a legal ruling as to whether or not the settlement is compatible with European Union law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19602/16]
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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International Agreements
Paul Murphy
673. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how intra-European Union bilateral investment treaty solutions with the investor-state dispute settlement promote discrimination based on nationality, but in a post-Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement legal landscape allowing Canadian businesses or European Union businesses with a Canadian owner to have privileged access to a legal remedy, namely the settlement, somehow does not allow for discrimination based on nationality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19603/16]