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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (8 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a study has been undertaken to provide homeless services outside the main urban centres; and the strategy in place for persons who become homeless in rural Ireland who do not want to be displaced to cities. [27766/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (8 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who commute into Dublin from the locations to the north west of Pace, that is, counties Meath and Cavan; the projected figures for the next five years; the annual cost of the subsidy paid by the State to the owners of the toll at Black Bull Cross in County Meath; the volume of vehicles necessary for that subsidy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat. I am delighted that the witnesses are present. I am the rapporteur for the very important report on the all-Ireland economy. It is very interesting to hear the information from the witnesses. The background to this issue, which people do not necessarily realise, is the level of economic deprivation, displacement and emigration that exists in rural and urban communities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is the British exit from the EU.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If the employer stands up for the employee-----

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I have referred to Deputy Lawlor in the third person, which means I am speaking to the Chair.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The point I am making is that the employer has to smash the relationship he has had with the employee and collect the money. If he does not, the party opposite will fine him. Not satisfied with burdening employers with the role of debt collector, the Government is stipulating employers will have to go to the courts as part of normal employment behaviour. For an employer to determine...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Where an employee against whom an attachment order has been made changes employment, the new employer must notify the court. Setting aside for a moment the excessive administrative burden the Government is imposing on employers, imagine the impact of this measure on an employee-employer relationship. In a difficult economic environment, many such relationships are already fraught and...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: That is rubbish.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: You used the word “probably”. You do not even have facts.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: One truthful speaker, too.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Deputy should say something that is accurate, too.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Your back is against the wall now, Lord Lucan.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Labour Party and Fine Gael really have excelled themselves with this legislation. This Government is rapidly becoming the most divisive Administration in the history of the State.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This obnoxious legislation is, in effect, a form of collective punishment on all citizens for daring to voice their opposition through civil disobedience to the water charges. We have experienced at first hand the disintegration of the social democratic values hard won by the peoples of Europe. We are watching it again, this time in slow motion, in Greece because of the debt hard-liners in...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is becoming a boot-boy Government which is using the law to enforce draconian authoritarian measures which are so deeply divisive and unfair that it is breath-taking.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has failed to win the political, social, fiscal and even moral argument on water charges. If it has done anything well, it is this. Irish Water has become the most productive and efficient fiasco factory any Government has managed to create in a long time. I cannot recall any other initiative which a Government has created that has produced so many problems and revisions, as...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some may describe this as the Government literally putting its hands in peoples' pockets. It is an attack on those who have difficulty in surviving in this society. Interestingly, the last two Members spoke about small businesses and employers. This legislation is an attack on them. Employers, like landlords, are to become the State’s debt collectors. The legislation empowers...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Wait. I am trying to educate the Deputy.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Two ears and one mouth. Listen twice and speak once.