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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been nearly two months since the Revenue Commissioners were out there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Workplace Relations Bill will provide protections for workers employed by subcontractors engaged in exploitative work practices. [39379/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Guím gach rath ar na hAirí ar fad agus ar an bhfoireann nua. I tabled this question to determine whether the forthcoming workplace relations Bill will provide protection to workers, especially those employed by subcontractors engaged in exploitative work practices. In that context, I want to make particular reference to the ongoing publicly funded Kishoge Community College...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: As the Minister of State knows, the workers at the Kishoge Community College site have effectively been locked out of their place of employment because a subcontractor has demanded that they register as self-employed and accept excessively low rates of pay. Some of the rates we have heard of are less than €5 per hour or €20 per day. To be blunt, the Government's response so...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that the Minister of State is working on particular projects and I am trying to ascertain whether those projects will close off all possibility of this type of exploitation in the future. We have had a collapse in the construction industry and that collapse has led to an overabundance of skilled construction workers who are unemployed and claiming social welfare. As a result,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Business Voucher Scheme (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the policy measures he plans to roll out over the next 12 months in addition to the online trading voucher to maximise indigenous companies' sales through e-commerce. [39083/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact the recent US Chamber of Commerce complaint regarding Ireland's public policy lodged with the European Commission will have on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the investor-State dispute settlement mechanism attached to the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39081/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday, the Minister Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation issued a statement claiming that capital expenditure for his Department had been increased by €50 million and that the Government would create 50,000 new jobs in 2015. When I looked at the actual figures, I could not get over it. There was actually a reduction in capital of €4 million, not an increase. As for creating...

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: If they are not homeless when the Government has finished with them.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the Taoiseach’s own tax band?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (15 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the mis-selling of payment protection insurance by Permanent TSB to a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [39489/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (15 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will arrange a meeting with the Industrial Development Agency-Enterprise Ireland and a company (details supplied) in County Meath to see if jobs may be saved; if he will ensure the remaining 60 jobs are secured into the future and to ensure that a proper redundancy package is put in place for the workers currently facing...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The policies are costed in full.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Aspirations are no good if there is no money.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Why does the Deputy not read our budget proposal?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: We had triple the Fine Gael vote in Dublin South-West. The Deputy should listen to the people.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: He has not been listening to the people of Dublin South-West. The Government has done nothing about the water charges. It is not listening. That is the problem. It needs to listen.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Buttimer is well able to heckle. He is one of the best hecklers here, for God's sake.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Deputy needs to listen again.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is about time he listened to the people.