Results 1-20 of 290 for competitive speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...but where the profit lands in the factory and supermarket and not in the farms? It is because the structure of the market is an oligopoly, which has been allowed to happen by the lack of competitive protections from the Government. That is the main element. Cost and regulation increases are affecting farmers radically. It is not worth it for farmers to remain in the sector, and that is...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...factories, supermarkets and the farmers. Most of the profit is landing in the hands of the factories and supermarkets. This is being allowed to happen because the Government is not holding their competitive power to account. Yes, we have the food ombudsman's office, but we have yet to see any muscles flexed in putting manners on the factories and the supermarkets regarding their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that some international capital will be needed for the housing market. However, the key point we are trying to make is that giving international capital a competitive advantage over home owners in the housing sector has the effect of displacing first-time buyers and families from the housing sector. It is clear that the international investors have competitive advantages,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [55422/23]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...are preventing international vulture funds from coming in and buying up housing stock because of the damage it does to the markets. The truth of the matter is that when these vulture funds come into competition with first-time buyers, families and young couples, they have all the cards in their hands. They have access to far lower interest on capital from abroad. They have really deep...

Gender Recognition (Amendment) (Prisons) Bill 2023: First Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Taoiseach put pressure on Irish rugby to reverse its decision to make women's rugby female-only despite the scientific evidence that male-born players can cause serious damage to female players in rugby and it negates fair competition as well. Professor Donal O'Shea of the National Gender Service, which is deeply committed to supporting people with gender dysphoria, stated at an...

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...accuracy. The key issue that has been missed in this debate so far is that the whole idea of a liberal democracy is built on the system that ideas can challenge each other fairly and that in a respectful competition of ideas, the better ideas will percolate to the top and become the policy of a given society. The truth is that the history of censorship has never ended well. It has been...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the 1850s by men using picks and shovels, but now the upgrade is taking 25 years to be delivered. If we cannot deliver capital projects, we cannot create energy efficiently to make sure there is competition and prices come down. The Government has a major responsibility in this regard. I urge rich Ministers to stop making decisions that are pushing struggling families into poverty on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I will leave it at that. Perhaps the competition issue could be dealt with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The final part was that one of the big weaknesses we currently have in the banking sector is the lack of real competition. What is the Central Bank's view on what steps could be taken to increase competition and therefore increase the competitive dynamic in the sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...ensure all aspects of society pay a fair contribution in respect of the profits they make. Some of the issues around the differential between interest rates could be resolved if there was proper competition in the sector. One of the biggest failings of current Government policy is the fact that there is no real plan to increase competition in what is a duopoly. Two pillar banks have the...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Government is looking to criminalise citizens who speak respectfully on issues that they disagree with, which is the opposite of what a liberal democracy means. A liberal democracy is built on the idea that the competition of ideas is the engine of the democratic process. The Government's censorship Bill deletes the right to respectfully but robustly challenge the convention of the...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Ireland. According to the reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Deputy Nolan, nearly 70,000 tonnes of beef have been imported into Ireland since the start of the year. Ireland has an international competitive advantage for producing beef in the most environmentally friendly manner possible but now we are importing tens of thousands of tonnes of environmentally toxic beef instead....

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...is not adequate pay and the terms and conditions are not good enough. Recruitment and retention are not rocket science. If you own a shop in a small town, you have to have a recruitment package that is competitive relative to other businesses that are employing the same people. That is not happening in this context. It is not by accident that people in nursing homes, those who use...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (18 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 237. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of fines that have been enforced for each year of the existence of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission's existence; and the total euro value for fines enforced by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission for each year of its existence. [23891/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: He had a good chance of winning the competition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...citizen in the country is entitled to apply for a job and to be interviewed for the job on the basis of their qualifications and ability to be considered for that job. Yet, as we said earlier, we have a competition of one for the job in question. I want to go to the issue of Deirdre Gillane, because there seems to be a difficulty in that regard. The report released a couple of days...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (18 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any further recommendations will be put in place to make sure that approved housing bodies are not in competition with one another (details supplied); and if the State has carried out research in relation to same. [16327/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 158. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of all procurement competitions, if any, in which companies (details supplied) won contracts from his Department since 2016. [14732/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of all procurement competitions, if any, in which companies (details supplied) won contracts from his Department since 2016. [14721/23]