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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I have just one more question.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The subcontractor law is not being applied. It has not been fully completed as the adjudicators have not been selected. Therefore, it still has not been of any use to any of the subcontractors in the State, although it has spent four years making its way through the Houses. On the programme for Government, the Taoiseach referred to the completion of the work of the Constitutional...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I came across an astounding figure last week. I was researching the unemployment figures and I found that 7,500 people over the age of 65 who are unemployed are not counted in the live register. There has been a change in the past number of years with regard pensions and the pension age has been increased. The CSO counts these individuals but they are not included in the live register. To...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Live Register Data (17 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 160. To ask the Taoiseach if the 2,635 jobseekers who have commenced on a Momentum programme in 2014 are included in the Central Statistics Office's live register activation programme figures; the scheme under which they are classified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6827/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (17 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 14 January 2015, if a decision has been made; if so, when the decision was made; and the nature of the decision. [6946/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Court Recommendations (17 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 249. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to a decision by the principal contractor of a publicly funded college (details supplied) in County Dublin not to uphold a recent recommendation by the Labour Court; the confidence workers can have in the State’s industrial relations mechanism if a contractor, awarded multiple public works...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Relations (17 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a decision by the principal contractor of a publicly funded college project (details supplied) in County Dublin to ignore a recent recommendation by the Labour Court; the provisions that are contained within public works contracts to ensure that a contractor awarded such contracts adheres to such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Relations (17 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a decision by the principal contractor of a publically funded college (details supplied) in County Dublin to refuse to adhere to a recent recommendation by the Labour Court; if she is satisfied that her Department and agencies under the aegis of her Department, have awarded multiple public contracts to a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Jobs Data (17 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 551 of 3 January 2015, if she will confirm that her Department does not record the real time jobs, directly and indirectly created, arising from the Government's school building programme. [6783/15]

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Companies Act 2014 to hold a company officer or officers acting on behalf of a corporate body personally liable where a breach of employment law is committed.I will outline briefly the purpose of the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2015, which amends section 224 of the Companies Act 2014. In short, this Bill provides...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Other Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of each enterprise credit facility that has been created by this Government; their respective funding; job creation targets; and actual performance. [5844/15]

Other Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes. I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Other Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the time. I appreciate it. The debt that is experienced by enterprise in the State and the access to finance still form one of the major impediments to growth. It is the brake on growth in a significant section of enterprise. Right through the four years, this has been an issue, and most of the initiatives that the Government has taken have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the Minister of State's answer. In fairness, he has indicated a number of actions that are being used to help people who have been unemployed or who have had difficulties obtaining finance. Many sectors have experienced unemployment and difficulty in obtaining finance and, as such, it is not the fact that people's immediate financial experience might place them in the low-paid...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: While I appreciate what the Minister of State has said, the first thing we need to do is to measure exactly what is happening within the system. If one cannot measure, one cannot manage. If we do not have the statistics to identify exactly the incidence of success and failure, it is very hard to put things in place. There is a seeding ground for enterprise which involves those who are the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the socioeconomic backgrounds of persons supported by Enterprise Ireland; and the actions being utilised to ensure that persons from lower income brackets are being helped to set up new businesses. [6345/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is researching the experience of women in enterprise. We are also investigating the response of State organisations to women in enterprise. People from low or low-to-middle income backgrounds also have difficulties with regard to enterprise. What supports is the Government providing to ensure that this sector of society has...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the current local enterprise offices operating with a lower staff level than the past year, to include the county and the decrease in staff. [5845/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he plans to pursue to address the high rate of underemployment here. [5848/15]