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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It could also be a question of the transfer mechanism whereby funds could be transferred to those regions over time. The United States has such a mechanism. Politically, that is not attractive to Germany.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Sinn Féin supports the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2015, which seeks to provide for the commissioned rank of Vice Admiral in the Defence Forces. The rank of Vice Admiral is the naval equivalent of the Army rank of Lieutenant General, a rank whose holder traditionally has assumed the role of Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces. The Government has brought forward this Bill to ensure Rear...

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, has established two separate investigations into the European Council and the Commission on the lack of transparency around negotiations. In her report she calls for public access to consolidated negotiations texts, greater proactive disclosure of TTIP documents and increased transparency as regards meetings that Commission officials hold on TTIP with...

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned that representatives in the European Parliament are getting privileged information. It is a privilege to be a public representative. Access to information which affects the people one represents is not a privilege; it is a right for public representatives. We are always told that nobody takes an interest in the European Union. Now people are taking an interest in...

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Why then the investigation of the Ombudsman?

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister give those to us?

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister give access to these?

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister has not answered the question. Will he give access to us?

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a reading room to enable Oireachtas Members access departmental documentation on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will ensure the EU Commission establishes a reading room for Oireachtas Members in its Dublin office as already provided for Members of the European Parliament in Brussels....

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Transparency is the ally of the citizen and where there is a lack of transparency and affairs are shrouded in mystery, we see that the interests of the citizens are not upheld. The IBRC and NAMA are organisations where we see that in practice. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is shrouded in secrecy. It is very difficult for elected representatives, even with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Law (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, following publication of the report on the sale and liquidation of Clerys, he will now amend the Companies Act 2014. [28707/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Law (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome some of the Clerys workers who are in the Visitors Gallery. I wish to express my and my party's solidarity with them. It has been more than a month since these workers were turfed out on the street, yet nothing has been done for them. My question is specifically focused on what is available in company legislation to ensure the rights of these individuals are upheld. A number of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Law (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State, Deputy Nash, in fairness to him, last week set out in great detail what happened with regard to Gordon Brothers and Natrium Limited. They used a precise, methodical technique to separate their responsibilities and their assets. Then the workers were callously turfed out on the street. In that report, the Minister says it was never really the intention of Gordon...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Law (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I cannot think of another legislative measure on which the Government would respond with such a wishy-washy answer, saying that the legislation it drafted may or may not deal with the situation. Usually, the Government responds in a very robust fashion and over-eggs the strength of a legislative measure to do what it says it will do. However, in this case, involving legislation that is only...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Law (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The legislation only may work.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Company Law (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is up to the Minister to write legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce legislation to prohibit the practice of trade union representative blacklisting by employers. [28667/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Advisory Group on Small Business Recommendations (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he consulted with his Department's Advisory Group on Small Business on the impact of attachment orders on small and micro-businesses. [28665/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Controls (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if human rights criteria have been considered when granting export licences for military list products to Israel in the past ten years; if he will confirm that the Israeli Defence Forces are the end user of military list products exported to Israel; and if, on any of these occasions, a licence was refused due to the breaching by...

National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 48:In page 9, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:"(a) is found guilty of an offence under the Principal Act,".The legislation sets out instances in which a member of the commission can be disqualified. It is important that members of commission have done right by employees previously. My amendment seeks to add a provision for disqualification of a person...