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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: I apologise, I need to check my notes.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I am happy for the Minister of State to come back to us with a written note if she wishes. That would be fine.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Deputy. I fully agree with him. This area offers huge opportunities from a renewability and renewable energy perspective but also from an employment perspective. The Deputy referenced the maritime areas and the Maritime Area Planning Act that came into force in the last number of years. Having been a member of the joint committee on housing and planning, that was something I...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: To clarify, the Minister of State referred to creating a number of jobs outside of Ireland. Did she mean outside of Dublin?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: Yes, outside of Dublin. As a Dublin TD, I forget.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I was getting worried there for a minute. I thank the Minister of State. I propose that the consideration of Supplementary Estimates by the committee has concluded. Is that agreed? Agreed. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, for assisting the committee in its consideration of the Supplementary Estimates.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Chair and members of the committee for a really engaging session. In particular, I thank my officials for their work on all of the budgetary matters and for all the they do day in, day out for companies.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I should have thanked them as well. I thank the Minister of State and her officials for coming.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Select Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: For the attention of members, the imeachtaí of the committee's meeting on 16 October have been circulated. Do members have any comments on those? No. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: Then the IDA savings relate to delays regarding property transactions which were not completing as expected. Obviously, we had budgeted for them to happen in the hope that they would.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (17 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Pa Daly: I thank the Minister for her statement. I have a few questions. I note the offset in the underspends. First, there is not enough spending on the Garda Reserve due to delays in recruitment. Is that likely to happen this year? What are the reasons for the delays?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Pa Daly: No new people have been recruited. Is that what the Minister is saying?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Pa Daly: Does the Minister accept there are fewer than 100 members of the Garda Reserve in Dublin at this stage?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Pa Daly: Is the Minister happy with the pace of recruitment? There is an issue with Garda visibility on the streets of Dublin in particular for a long time now.