Parliamentary questions

Brexit Supports

Maurice Quinlivan

2. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the effectiveness of the Brexit business supports currently available such as the Be Prepared grant, the market discovery fund and the Brexit loan scheme; her further views on the low uptake of these supports; her plans to increase the uptake; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42761/18]

Brexit Issues

Maurice Quinlivan

67. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the plans being put in place for a hard Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30826/18]

IDA Ireland Portfolio

Maurice Quinlivan

69. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if consideration has been given to using part of the land bank held by the IDA to provide for housing, childcare facilities or other community facilities in view of the number of new companies locating here and the lack of housing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30601/18]

Economic Growth

Maurice Quinlivan

71. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if an independent report into the economic benefits a united Ireland economy would bring to the island of Ireland will be considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30603/18]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Data

Maurice Quinlivan

73. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the reform of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE; when she plans to publish the report into the failings of the ODCE in the investigation of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30602/18]

Foreign Direct Investment

Maurice Quinlivan

2. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which she plans to attract more foreign direct investment to County Leitrim and the regions; the way in which she further plans to help indigenous firms establish and grow in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22891/18]

Brexit Expenditure

Maurice Quinlivan

21. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she is satisfied with the funding her Department has allocated to the IDA, EI and ITI to enable each body to mitigate the potential effects that Brexit may have on the economy. [16827/18]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement

Maurice Quinlivan

30. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the interim actions being taken to ensure white-collar crime is investigated fully pending the establishment of a new agency to replace the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. [6083/18]

Brexit Issues

Maurice Quinlivan

41. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of businesses that have taken up Brexit business supports such as the be prepared grants and Brexit readiness vouchers provided by Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland; and if she is satisfied that the level of business preparedness for Brexit is sufficient. [5955/18]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement

Maurice Quinlivan

2. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has brought no prosecutions or achieved no convictions in the past two years; and her plans to accelerate the reform of the agency. [49669/17]

Unemployment Levels

Maurice Quinlivan

55. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explain the reason the summer economic statement projects the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 5.5% from 2019 to 2021; and if she has satisfied herself that having over 120,000 persons remain jobless over this period is a good Government ambition. [43033/17]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases

Maurice Quinlivan

2. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the report into the failings of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in a trial (details supplied) will be published, having been delivered to her office in July 2017. [43200/17]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

Maurice Quinlivan

12. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to establish a co-operative development unit to increase the number of worker co-operatives. [43035/17]

Brexit Issues

Maurice Quinlivan

2. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which she plans to address the level of unpreparedness of businesses for Brexit (details supplied). [30623/17]

Departmental Programmes

Maurice Quinlivan

4. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the terms of reference for the review of the Succeed in Ireland initiative have been finalised; the number of submissions that were received through the public consultation process; and the timeframe for the review to be completed. [30650/17]

Departmental Funding

Maurice Quinlivan

49. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that InterTrade Ireland is chronically underfunded; and the reason she is not providing it with substantially more funding and resources to cope with Brexit (details supplied). [23050/17]

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

Maurice Quinlivan

53. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to facilitate a Dáil Éireann debate on the CETA before the summer recess; the reason a debate has not been held to date; and her views on whether the investment court system is compliant with Bunreacht na hÉireann. [23033/17]

Job Creation

Maurice Quinlivan

2. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, in view of the fact the review of the ConnectIreland Succeed in Ireland programme will be commissioned shortly after the current contract with IDA Ireland expires on 26 March 2017, she will continue this scheme in order that IDA Ireland can extend ConnectIreland’s contract to operate the Succeed in Ireland initiative; and if she will direct IDA Ireland to take action to avoid the loss of the jobs currently being sourced by ConnectIreland and take action to avoid the loss of the global network built by ConnectIreland. [14457/17]

Brexit Issues

Maurice Quinlivan

2. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether her Department has been allocated enough extra spending to assist and support Irish food and drink companies in 2017 to try to replace UK exports to the EU to compensate for the hit - and potential hit - caused by Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6647/17]

National Planning Framework

Maurice Quinlivan

2. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, in view of the fact that her Department is represented on the national planning framework, NPF, steering committee and participates in discussions at the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure, Environment and Climate Action, and that she also participates on the econometric and demographics working group, she will provide a detailed report on the issues she has raised and an update on the progress made; her Department’s plans in terms of the NPF; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39276/16]