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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I remind Mr. O'Connor that his colleague online wants to come in but he can go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The next speaker is Senator Garvey. She has seven minutes. She will be followed by Deputy Barry who also has seven minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: As I said, the members decided what we were going to be covering.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Okay. We can go into private session later and discuss that then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I apologise for interrupting but I am conscious of time and Mr. Glanzer wants to come in as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Hynes very much. Well said. It is a nice opportunity. Deputy Stanton wants to come in again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the representatives for assisting the committee in its consideration of this important matter. I propose that we go into private session to consider this and other business. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Mr. Glanzer wants to come in on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The members decided who was coming in, in fairness.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is essential for the optional protocol to the UN CRPD to be ratified. As the Minister indicated in his response, the Government agreed to do so on 8 October. While that is welcome, October is in the dying days of this Dáil. Nobody expects it to last until after Christmas. I do not have to tell people here that those who live their lives with a disability need further support,...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The most recent budget was an opportunity to address some of the challenges faced by social protection payment recipients, especially carers and those with disabilities. It was an opportunity to address the challenges facing those who are carers, a cohort of our people who have been let down by this Government time and again. Being a carer is work, often a labour of love, but it is work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: 641. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who presented at the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick and left the hospital before receiving treatment, in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41296/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who presented at the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick and left the hospital before receiving their full-range treatment, in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41297/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: 284. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who was referred 12 months ago to the vascular unit at University Hospital Limerick, and continues to await an appointment with a vascular specialist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40725/24]

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The €250 energy credit does not go far enough, as my colleagues have said. It is quite simply a gesture and does nothing to address runaway energy costs in this State under this Government. The Government has put together a once-off stunt while it has studiously avoided addressing the outrageous burden that these energy costs place on workers and their families. Householders are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Yesterday, I was contacted by a Clare woman regarding what she witnessed at University Hospital Limerick, UHL, on Monday evening. She explained that she had spent nine hours at UHL with her elderly mother, who had been referred to the accident and emergency department from north Clare. She described to me her experience of being in the accident and emergency department surrounded by people...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: We need a second emergency department as a matter of urgency.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank members and witnesses for participating in the meeting. We have not received any apologies. Today's meeting has been convened to consider the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024, which was referred to the select committee by order of the Dáil on 25 September 2024. The purpose of the Bill is to provide for the conduct of, and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: We will go through the Bill section by section. Members who want to speak on any section should indicate.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State for his kind words directed towards Deputies, particularly towards our two colleagues who are definitely leaving. I am not sure whether the other three of us will be back. I also thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending today's meeting. I look forward to the Bill being enacted and implemented as soon as possible.