Results 12,701-12,720 of 16,369 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State has made a number of points. It is not that we are cynical with regard to the low pay commission. We are ambitious for it but we do not believe there is the necessary level of ambition in terms of an economy dealing with entrenched poverty. In Britain, and this was the case I put to the Minister of State, they have started to appraise the effectiveness of their low...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: On the zero hour contracts issue, we have the same policy in the North as we have in the South. Will the Minister of State ask the Central Statistics Office to record the number of zero hour contracts in function in the National Quarterly Household Survey because we could then have a greater insight into zero hour contracts and their impact in the economy? The questions remain. They...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The CSO collects that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis na toscairí as ucht a gcuid cur i láthair. Bhí siad an-suimiúil ar fad. How entrenched is low pay? Sometimes, people think we have always had low pay and the poor and things are really no different in this generation than they were in previous generations. Is 2015 radically different from ten or 20 years ago with regard to income inequality?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I thank the delegates for their presentations. Before their presentations, we heard presentations by employee representatives. Many of them were decent individuals who explained very difficult situations for employees. Our job is to square the circle. I do not know who the squares and circles are here, and I will not say. It is a major and difficult challenge for the Oireachtas. A...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Is only one representative organisation in favour of zero-hour contracts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: ISME is not against them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: We will have that discussion. I just wanted to get a brief understanding of where the representative groups stand on the issue. Mr. Murphy's member organisations are experiencing a whole ecosystem of costs, and wages are one aspect. I always feel wages are the last place we should seek cost reductions. Where do wages stand in his priority of costs? Would parity of USC for self-employed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The last question I have is to Ms Maeve McElwee. The 4.7% of the working population who are on the minimum wage is a cost element regarding business. But the 4.7% of the population who are on the very top wages is equally a cost. Given that both costs should be a challenge equally to the people you represent, what should be done with the wages at the top, the 4.7%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Ireland has a very steep incomes gradient. A steep incomes gradient is not necessarily good for a cohesive society. We are here to focus on wages as a cost of doing business. The committee is focussing on the 4.7% at the bottom. I am just wondering why there is no attention given to the 4.7% at the top.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foráim Pleanála Fiontar (24 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 313. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation cad iad na fóraim atá ar fáil faoi scáth na Roinne Post, Fiontar agus Nuálaíochta chun deis a thabhairt d’eagraíochtaí atá ionadaíoch d’fhiontair a gcuid smaointe a chur in iúl don rialtas. [11153/15]
- Road Traffic (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha."
- Road Traffic (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961 to provide for dual language road signs and related matters.Tá práinn uafásach ag titim amach os ár gcomhair maidir leis an teanga. Níl ach 1,000 páiste le Gaeilge ón gcliabhán sa Ghaeltacht ag freastal ar scoileanna lán Gaeilge. Ciallaíonn...
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Chuir an Teachta Mattie McGrath an cheist a bhí agamsa ar an Aire, so tá freagra faighte agam.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: How long does the Deputy have?
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I am just wondering as I have a question to ask.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The roll-out is like a glacier. It is very slow.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: An bhfuil an Taoiseach ag iarraidh go mbeidh na daoine seo ar fad bankrupt?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Ba cheart go mbeadh na bainc cabhrach.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Teanga Gaeilge (11 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 19. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sí chun cumhacht an Choimisinéara Teanga a láidriú; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [10170/15]