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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I asked a couple of questions about the challenges.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: April Fools' day.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Service Contracts (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if zero hour contracts are used in the public sector. [13190/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the Commissioner. The presentation this morning referred to a figure or amount that will be lost to the American Treasury as a result of a reduction of the tariffs, but I did not see a comparable figure for Europe. What will the loss to the Irish Exchequer be as a result of the reduction of tariffs? Does the Commissioner accept that EU member states already have the necessary...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: It is estimated that 1.3 million jobs will be displaced within Europe. What is the Commission's plan for this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Seven hundred thousand jobs in the market would be displaced-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I mentioned other macroeconomic and social costs that are likely to arise with regard to the treaty. What are the plans and resources of the Commission to ensure those costs, which are very serious considering the 1.3 million people affected, will be dealt with?
- An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom mo mhíle buíochas a ghabháil leis an Teachta Wallace as ucht an reachtaíocht seo a thabhairt os comhair na Dála. Ba mhaith liom a rá freisin go mbeidh Sinn Féin ag tabhairt tacaíocht don Bhille seo ar an Dara Céim. This is the second neutrality Bill to come before the Dáil this month. My...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Over to Australia.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Tax cuts for the rich.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Pickpocketing
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Pickpocketing.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Which is wiped out with the water charges.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Net of the cuts-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: We want to see a proper water system, paid for by a progressive tax.
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the measures in An Action Plan for Jobs 2015 dealing with small and medium enterprise and micro-enterprise access to public procurement of goods and services contracts are sufficiently ambitious to increase both sectors' share of these public contracts within the lifetime of the plan. [12097/15]
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Public procurement presents one of the biggest opportunities for SMEs in the State. An Action Plan for Jobs states the ambitions of the Government are merely to increase SME awareness and identify further measures to assist public sector procurement. In other words, in the Government's fourth year in office, its ambition is to look into the matter. I sat with a previous Minister...
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015 states with regard to public procurement and SMEs that its ambitions include increasing awareness and looking into further methods to improve it. The Minister of State has said €2.4 billion in public procurement was analysed and referred to expenditure of €8 billion. The truth of the matter is that the Office of Public Procurement simply does not...
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The enterprise agencies should be focusing on the key issue, that is, getting rid of blockages. There are tenders rolled up into massive tenders that preclude small businesses from competing. There are articles within contracts that state tendering companies must have a massive turnover and profit and be heavily insured. This also precludes small businesses. The State is measuring which...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: There is no doubt that there are examples that buck the trend in each of the regions trending generally in a negative fashion. We have to measure the trends in those areas to be able to create the proper policies and develop the resources to solve the problems. It is not a case of looking for the worst figure. Anyone with two ears on them who steps outside of the M50 into the rest of the...