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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (5 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 263. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the housing adaptions for people with disabilities and housing aid for older person's funding will be made available to Meath County Council; and if he will provide details of the 2015 allocation for Meath. [5258/15]

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: After four years here I cannot get my head around the fact that this Government has not asked for a write-down, and refuses to request a recapitalisation. It is astonishing that the government of a country as indebted as ours would turn its face against a proposition such as a European debt conference.

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The explanation of the Minister for Finance is that the country's debt is sustainable. The debate on whether this debt is sustainable will unfortunately be held by our grandchildren. Sustainability is also a moral issue. Is it sustainable for a country to pay debt while its people are dying on hospital trolleys? Is it sustainable that a person would suffer a lifelong debilitating...

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Greek Government has done more in two weeks for Irish interests than this Government has done in four years.

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: He is a tough audience.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (4 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take to offset the negative impact of Ulster Bank branch and sub-office closures on the local banking system here. [4692/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (4 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he will take to ensure that mortgage holders who are in distress who are proactively engaging with banks to resolve their problems receive a fair outcome. [4691/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (4 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 70. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 27 January 2015, if there is a section in his Department that retains data relating to all capital expenditure by the State. [5042/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: Enterprise Ireland (3 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim mo chomhghairdeas leis na finnéithe maidir leis na figúirí a bhain siad amach an bhliain seo caite. D'éirigh thar barr leo. I have a couple of questions. There is a feeling of push-pull in enterprise, especially in Enterprise Ireland. It responds to the demand in society, to a certain extent, and obviously it has a role in generating demand as well. I suppose...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Applications (3 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the total number of applications received under the home renovation incentive to date; the total value of activity under the scheme; if he will provide a breakdown of the activities carried out under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4647/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (3 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 286. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the annual relevant contract tax revenue collected and tax refunded between 2000 and 2007. [5019/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (3 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date of each visit by an Industrial Development Agency or Enterprise Ireland prospective client to the former NEC factory in Ballivor County Meath. [4387/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (3 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 302. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date of each visit by an Industrial Development Agency prospective client to each town in County Meath for each of the past five years. [4388/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (3 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 508 of 20 January 2015, if the annual number of school build programme direct jobs created she has supplied are workers directly employed by the principal contractor of each of the projects accounted for in the annual period; and if not if she will provide a breakdown for each year of the way her...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (29 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 176. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the confusion and hardship arising from the requirement of local authorities to request proof from an applicant for housing that they do not own property in a country they have previously resided in; the required proof of the applicant; the circular number setting out for council staff...

Free Trade Agreements between the European Union and Columbia and Peru: Motion (28 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: We are talking here about the elected government of another state.

Free Trade Agreements between the European Union and Columbia and Peru: Motion (28 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The state in question is killing human rights defenders.

Free Trade Agreements between the European Union and Columbia and Peru: Motion (28 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: -----in a committee would come to the view that this particular agreement should be voted down against the views of the Government. Sinn Féin does not support this motion. We do not believe that the Irish Government should ratify the EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. To quote representatives of the people of the Putumayo province: "We are opposed to the EU's Free Trade Agreement...

Free Trade Agreements between the European Union and Columbia and Peru: Motion (28 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Before I address this motion, I welcome to the Visitors Gallery the representatives of a number of NGOs and trade unions, who have engaged constructively with members of the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation over the past number of months to highlight the devastating impact of free trade agreements on human rights in Colombia. In December last year, the Joint Committee on...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach has never applied for it.