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Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister. No matter what way the Minister looks at this and no matter what he says, the fact of the matter is that the creation of 64 jobs in County Tipperary in 2014, when IDA Ireland created 15,012 nationally, means the county has been abandoned by the Government. It is not getting its fair share of inward investment and that is the reason I have tabled a series of questions...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: This is clearly a story of exclusion. The Minister has certainly make decisions and choices but those he has made have excluded every town in County Tipperary from the regional strategy. As I stated, those towns have significant levels of unemployment. The unemployment rate in Carrick-on-Suir is double the national average. There is no site or advance factory there. In Nenagh and...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: It is not in the Minister's statement.

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: Not a single Tipperary town is included.

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: That is what the Minister is saying, however.

Other Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: What I said was that we were not getting our fair share of it.

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the plans in place to locate a new enterprise at a vacant plant (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the number of visits to the site that have been organised by the Industrial Development Agency in 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5843/15]

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: This question concerns the Johnson & Johnson ALZA plant at in Cashel, County Tipperary, which has been vacant for some time. It is a state-of-the-art facility and I am looking for an update on the situation.

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: The former Johnson & Johnson ALZA plant in Cashel is a state-of-the-art facility. Unfortunately, it has been vacant for some time and I thought there would have been a stronger push by the IDA to fill the plant. In the town of Cashel, 1,060 people are on the live register. The town needs employment and there is no doubt it should be possible to install a new occupant in the plant....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will withdraw his stated support for the inclusion in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations of a new investor state dispute settlement mechanism, which allows corporations to sue Governments for loss of revenue, bypassing the Irish courts, when Government regulations are seen to affect expected profits;...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister provide an update on the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations and, specifically, the proposed investor state dispute settlement mechanism?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: There are serious and significant concerns about these negotiations in a variety of areas, including the prospect of the displacement of 1 million jobs in the European Union which will affect this country too. There is a concern that low-grade, hormone-injected and genetically modified beef products from the US may gain access to the Irish market. Questions have arisen about the investor...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: There is a concern these negotiations are secret. Is the Minister prepared to advise the Dáil on an ongoing, say quarterly, basis on the conduct and the progress of these negotiations?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: Unemployment figures in County Tipperary are well in excess of 14,000, which is significantly above the national average. Towns like Carrick-on-Suir and Nenagh, which did not benefit from the Celtic tiger, now find themselves with unemployment levels that are more than double the national average. In respect of job creation by IDA companies in 2014, a mere 64 jobs were created in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Minister's announcement yesterday says nothing about towns in Tipperary. It talks about the investment over the coming years in building advance manufacturing and office facilities in Sligo, Tralee, Castlebar, Galway, Dundalk, Limerick, Athlone, Carlow and Waterford. There is no mention of any town in Tipperary or the building of advance factories or office facilities on any of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs created in companies supported by IDA Ireland; the number of jobs lost in agency-supported companies; the number of site visits organised by the agency in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 in Tipperary north, Tipperary south and County Tipperary as a whole; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6180/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Government has abandoned job creation in County Tipperary over the last four years. Yesterday, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, announced a regional strategy which excluded the county and further disadvantaged its towns. What specific steps does the Minister intend to take to create jobs in County Tipperary? I ask him to urgently and immediately...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Remit (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the budget and job creation targets for the local enterprise offices for County Tipperary for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5840/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is deliberately being misleading.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of 400,000 children living in households experiencing multiple forms of deprivation and 135,000 children suffering daily material deprivation, according to the recent Central Statistics Office, SILC, report; the number of children living in consistent poverty, meaning they are living both at risk of poverty and experiencing deprivation,...