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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Was the Minister aware of the breakdown in communications?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: By his answer the Minister has massively devalued this Chamber and citizens outside who are seeking answers. I asked him if he was aware of the breakdown in communications and the problems arising. The Minister has not even attempted to say he is aware of it. If we cannot understand and critique the problems, how are we supposed to fix them? On "Morning Ireland" yesterday, Paddy Cosgrave...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Measures (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce legislation to prevent tactical insolvencies such as the Clerys debacle. [37212/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: North-South Implementation Bodies (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reductions in investment in InterTradeIreland over the past five years. [37215/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Data (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of local sourcing by multinationals in this State in percentage terms and in real terms, for each of the past four years. [37214/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Staff (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 27. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the staffing and financial resource levels of the Local Enterprise Offices in 2015, in comparison to the County Enterprise Boards in 2013. [37213/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has sought the input of the indigenous SME sector, with regards the development of the knowledge development box. [37211/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Official Engagements (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has discussed with the British Ambassador to Ireland or with representatives of the British Government the content of a recent RTE programme (details supplied). [38528/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I congratulate Dr. Jones on the great work in which he is involved. In November 2011, Fasttrack to Information Technology, FIT, came before the committee. This organisation involves information technology companies which work together to ensure the skills gaps in the sector are met in some fashion. It always strikes me as bizarre that although this country is still in an unemployment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It strikes me that the skills gap has been a theme for the past four or five years. Is there any information on how the education sector has reoriented itself over the past four or five years to fill this skills gap? The CAO form has approximately 1,400 college courses. How have these altered over the past four or five years to resolve this problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: How many of the 2,000 people Dr. Jones mentioned were long-term unemployed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: How many of them were young people between the ages of 18 and 25?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes. They are the two groups in respect of which there has been no success with regard to the creation of jobs and are the two stubborn elements in the context of the unemployment figures. How successful has Dr. Jones been in breaking those two groups down?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she has considered postponing three-monthly and six-monthly community welfare reviews of rent supplement entitlements for tenants, which are providing landlords with the opportunity to increase the cost of the rent mid-lease; if she is aware that many persons are becoming homeless, having run into arrears, while their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Exemptions (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 321. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of additional workers who would be removed from the universal social charge if the exemption rate was increased from €13,000 to €19,572. [37964/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Co-operation (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 338. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the common chapter which formed part of the national development plan for the south of Ireland and the structural funds plan for the north of Ireland still exists; and, if so, the extent to which it is managed and implemented. [38385/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 373. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the integration, on a practical level, that exists between InterTradeIreland and the local enterprise offices, Enterprise Ireland, the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland. [38388/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 576. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hours per week that Castlepollard Garda station is without a rostered garda; her plans to permanently increase the staffing complement; and the distance to the nearest available staffed Garda station when this station has no staff present. [37895/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 661. To ask the Minister for Health when the building of a new laboratory in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Navan in County Meath will take place, as it has been on the estates management construction list for the past seven years. [37407/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I congratulate Enterprise Ireland on the excellent figures presented to us today. I wish to focus on the LEOs. I have been advised that because of the change from county enterprise boards with CEOs leaving and roles changing there may have been staffing difficulties in the LEOs. About a month and a half ago some people told me that they were advised that the start-your-own business...