Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Retail Sector

Billy Kelleher

289. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications to the retail online scheme to date by county; the number of eligible and ineligible applications, respectively; and the number of approved applications to which funding has issued in tabular form. [16038/19]

Local Enterprise Offices

Billy Kelleher

290. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the budget allocation to the digital trading vouchers provided by local enterprise offices, LEOs, in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the 2019 allocation; the amount expended in each such year; and the number of digital trading vouchers provided by LEOs in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by county in tabular form. [16039/19]

Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage

Billy Kelleher

364. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) with type 1 diabetes will be provided with access to CREON under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16237/19]

Medical Card Applications

Billy Kelleher

386. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue on discretionary grounds to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16382/19]

Brexit Preparations

Billy Kelleher

470. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to protect Irish fishing interests at EU level; the measures he will take to protect the fishing sector in the event of a no-deal Brexit; the position regarding discussions from the most recent EU Council meeting of fisheries ministers; the position regarding the current common fisheries policy; and if a review will take place in 2019. [16041/19]

Brexit Preparations

Billy Kelleher

471. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to protect Irish agrifood interests and farmers at EU level; the measures he will take to protect the sector and farmers in the event of a no-deal Brexit; the position regarding discussions from the most recent EU Council meeting of agriculture ministers; the position regarding the common agriculture policy post-2020; and the latest developments in relation to the European Commission proposals published in June 2018. [16042/19]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Billy Kelleher

575. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated take-up in the first full year of extending carers and illness benefit to eligible self-employed class S PRSI contributors. [16040/19]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Billy Kelleher

578. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 29 November 2018, the estimated cost of introducing the proposals in question in the first year; and the full year cost of extending these benefits to the self-employed. [16111/19]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Billy Kelleher

579. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 29 November 2018, the estimated cost of introducing the proposal in the first year; and the full year cost of extending this benefit to the self-employed. [16112/19]

Departmental Communications

Billy Kelleher

104. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Taoiseach the details of each Government of Ireland branded information initiative in 2018 and to date in 2019 which carried out functions (details supplied), in tabular form; the level of expenditure for each such initiative; and if his officials were involved in providing instructions and advice on promoting each such initiative. [15668/19]

Government Information Service

Billy Kelleher

105. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Taoiseach if his officials were involved in providing instructions and advice on promoting a video (details supplied); the detail of all such meetings that took place; and the funding provided for the video. [15669/19]

Government Information Service

Billy Kelleher

108. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his officials were involved in providing instructions and advice on promoting a video (details supplied); the detail of all such meetings that took place; and the funding provided for the video. [15670/19]

Innovation Vouchers Initiative

Billy Kelleher

133. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications to the innovation voucher scheme of Enterprise Ireland, by county, in each of the years 2010 to 2018, inclusive; the number of eligible and ineligible applications, respectively; the funds allocated to the scheme in each such year, including to date in 2019; and the amount subsequently expended in each year, in tabular form. [15665/19]

Consumer Protection

Billy Kelleher

134. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the recourse persons have due to consumer protection regulations with respect to car rental companies charging different customers for the same pre-existing damage while forgoing to repair the vehicle (details supplied); and the number of related complaints submitted to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission relating to such car rental issues in each of the years 2014 to 2018, and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [15666/19]

Departmental Expenditure

Billy Kelleher

135. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of making a video (details supplied) on regional enterprise plans; the Department that funded the video; the number of meetings she and senior staff have had with accounting officers and with staff from other Departments, including Accounting Officers who were involved in giving instructions and advice on promoting the video; and the details of all such meetings, in tabular form. [15667/19]

Trade Agreements

Billy Kelleher

136. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the ratification process for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA; the number of member states that have ratified it; the status of the outcome of the recent opinion of the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, ECJ, on the compatibility of the investment court system with the European treaties; and when the CETA agreement will be voted on by Dáil Éireann. [15671/19]

Trade Agreements

Billy Kelleher

137. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the European Union free trade agreements entered into since 2000 that have included a dispute settlement mechanism based on the World Trade Organization, WTO, dispute settlement mechanism, in tabular form. [15672/19]

Trade Agreements

Billy Kelleher

138. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the European Union free trade agreements entered into since 2009, which include investor to state dispute settlement mechanisms in trade and investment agreements, in tabular form. [15673/19]

Trade Agreements

Billy Kelleher

139. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of bilateral trade agreements entered into by EU member states since the late 1960s, which contain provisions to protect investments and investor to state dispute settlements. [15674/19]

Trade Agreements

Billy Kelleher

140. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the EU or national studies or research regarding employment growth, job creation and the increase in exports of goods and services as a direct result of EU free trade agreements, from an EU and Irish perspective, and other benefits accruing. [15675/19]