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

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is asking employers to become debt collectors against their employees. The good relationship employers have nurtured with their employees to create a productive and decent working environment will come to an end because of this. We have over 345,000 people signing on, with 80,000 more participating in job activation schemes. Outside the public sector, 70% of those working...

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

Peadar Tóibín: Some of this debt will go unpaid in certain cases because workers cannot afford to pay it. Under the Government, low pay has become a byword. Ireland is the second worst in the OECD when it comes to low pay. Under-employment is also entrenched in this society as a result of the divisive anti-social democratic values that Fine Gael and the Labour Party have pursued in government and...

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

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, has opposed every hard-won welfare state choice created.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is iad tuismitheoirí aonair ceann de na grúpaí is leochaileacha sa tír seo. Tá rátaí díothachta níos airde ina measc ná i measc grúpaí eile. I 2008 bhí 14% de theaghlaigh aonair sa Stát ag fulaingt díothachta. I 2013 bhí 31 % de theaghlach le tuismitheoir aonair ag fulaingt. Faoi chúram an Rialtais seo...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (1 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the night of 24 June 2015 was the third time in six weeks at the Navan North East Doctor on Call centre that there was no available doctor to cover the shift. [26537/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (1 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 24 June 2015, the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 per hour in her Department, as has been provided by all Government Departments. [26462/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment in the Pub Sector: Discussion (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the witnesses. I have some knowledge of this issue as I was close to setting up a craft brewery about 15 years ago and I have done considerable research on the sector although some of it is a little old at this stage. With respect to a supplier power structure in Ireland, there is quite a degree of supplier power here in that there is a small number of suppliers in general and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Low Pay Commission Report (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 148. To ask the Taoiseach the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 an hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [25441/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised from an increase in vehicle registration tax rates across all bands by 30%. [26035/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated from reducing the entry-level adjusted income threshold to €100,000 and full restriction level to €200,000, with an effective tax rate of 38%. [26036/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated from the removal of exemptions relating to horses and horse breeding. [26037/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 250. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated from a reduction of pension fund allowable for tax purposes on retirement from €2.3 million to €1.2 million. [26038/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 251. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated from having 2% stamp duty on all property in excess of €500,000. [26039/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the revenue that would be generated by providing a full pay-as-you-earn credit to self-employed persons with income up to €70,000, a reduced credit by 5% per €1,000 for gross income between €70,000 and €90,000, and a 0% credit on gross income in excess of €90.000. [26378/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected annual cost to the Exchequer of providing the option of opting into the spouses' and children's contributory pension scheme to current civil servants who were serving prior to 1984 and who have since entered into a civil partnership-same sex marriage. [26295/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the Copenhagen Economics "TTIP impact in Ireland" study commissioned by him used 2011 as a baseline year for all sectoral projections but 2013 as the baseline year for gross domestic product. [26396/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 371. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund in Ireland, given that her Department is to submit its revised plan to the Commission in June 2015 following consultations with community and voluntary organisations; when this will be completed; and when Ireland will be in a position to make a call for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 600. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to give details of the persons and bodies responsible for the main sewers servicing housing estates that run underneath gardens. [25740/15]

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 14:In page 17, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“Union entitled to represent members’ interests 20. (1) A trade union, at the request of the employee, may represent the employee in relation to the employee’s rights and entitlements under a registered employment agreement and sectoral employment order. (2) A union is entitled to...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 15:In page 17, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“Access to workplaces 21. (1) A trade union official is entitled, in accordance with this section to enter a workplace for purposes related to:(a) monitoring compliance with the operation of a registered employment agreement and sectoral employment order; (b) monitoring compliance with other Acts...