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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: What percentage of business loans have been written down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a major crisis in the SME sector. Many have been tied to toxic loans. The functioning parts of businesses are being dragged down and jobs are being threatened as a result. What efforts are being made by the bank to try to resolve that issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a lot of debate about the dysfunction within the property market. Property prices are increasing rapidly, while rent costs are spiralling. Part of the problem is on the supply side. The view is that the banks are not lending to builders or are lending at a percentage which makes things impossible. Do the delegates have any insight into that element of the market?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Are there figures for volume and stock levels in lending to the building sector?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Trade (21 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 554. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form Ireland's import and export figures relating to trade with Egypt for the years 2007 to 2014. [15585/15]

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: People looking in on this debate will have listened to the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin's rosy picture of how the economy is functioning at the moment. The reality is that these people will be well aware of the continuing unemployment crisis. They will be aware that people who are unemployed and over 65 are not even counted as unemployed, and that the tens of...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Agreed.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Neither of those points is contradictory.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Only in part.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: They are banned in the North.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the OECD wrong?

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the OECD wrong?

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: He quoted figures from 2007.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has one year left and the Minister may not get another chance to fix this. If I were in his position and I had possibly 12 months left in an Administration and possibly without another opportunity to make real significant change, I would ensure that my work output was not deficient, watered down policies.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move:That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges the establishment of the Low Pay Commission and the Government’s decision to fund research by the University of Limerick into the prevalence and impact of zero-hour and low-hour contracts across both the private and public sectors; and to assess if vulnerable workers have sufficient protection under the law; notes that: —...

Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It will also send the service abroad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: How would Mr. Lawrence Owens measure the level of progress since the memorandum of understanding has been put in place? Has the situation improved in any way? He said the Government must provide more than understanding. Will he be more specific as to what exactly it needs to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the Government hand-in-hand with the insurance industry? What is the level of co-operation between the two at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is best practice being followed in the granting of planning permission in Cork? I have heard a retail park is being built on a bog in Ballyvolane which will mean that a local estate, Brookvale, will become more vulnerable to flooding as a result. Given that there are problems there, are we taking enough steps in planning to ensure we will not make problems worse in the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank Dr. Surminski for raising the issue of climate change because it is the elephant in the room. Often when we discuss climate change in this institution, we speak about it as a cost, but in fact not dealing with it is a cost. In respect of the State and insurance companies, what is the incidence of the State providing direct insurance cover in these scenarios or competing against...