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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe agus gabhaim mo bhuíochas leo as ucht an cur i láthair suimiúil. My initial questions are for Bord Bia. Are all Bord Bia's clients indigenous or does it also represent foreign direct investment companies? Does it deal with high potential start-ups in the same way that Enterprise Ireland deals with them? How many companies are dealt...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I have a supplementary question for Ms Twomey. We are currently discussing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP. She is not exporting to the United States, and it appears that TTIP could offer a valuable opportunity for her given the Irish diaspora in the US. Is there a reason for that? Are there regulatory reasons or is it just not part of her strategy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Comparatively, does Ms Sidhu believe Ireland has a high proportion of VC compared to other similar economies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I asked a couple of questions about the challenges.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) Discussion (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: April Fools' day.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Service Contracts (31 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if zero hour contracts are used in the public sector. [13190/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the Commissioner. The presentation this morning referred to a figure or amount that will be lost to the American Treasury as a result of a reduction of the tariffs, but I did not see a comparable figure for Europe. What will the loss to the Irish Exchequer be as a result of the reduction of tariffs? Does the Commissioner accept that EU member states already have the necessary...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: It is estimated that 1.3 million jobs will be displaced within Europe. What is the Commission's plan for this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Seven hundred thousand jobs in the market would be displaced-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I mentioned other macroeconomic and social costs that are likely to arise with regard to the treaty. What are the plans and resources of the Commission to ensure those costs, which are very serious considering the 1.3 million people affected, will be dealt with?
- An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom mo mhíle buíochas a ghabháil leis an Teachta Wallace as ucht an reachtaíocht seo a thabhairt os comhair na Dála. Ba mhaith liom a rá freisin go mbeidh Sinn Féin ag tabhairt tacaíocht don Bhille seo ar an Dara Céim. This is the second neutrality Bill to come before the Dáil this month. My...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Over to Australia.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Tax cuts for the rich.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Pickpocketing
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Pickpocketing.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Which is wiped out with the water charges.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Net of the cuts-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: We want to see a proper water system, paid for by a progressive tax.
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the measures in An Action Plan for Jobs 2015 dealing with small and medium enterprise and micro-enterprise access to public procurement of goods and services contracts are sufficiently ambitious to increase both sectors' share of these public contracts within the lifetime of the plan. [12097/15]
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Public procurement presents one of the biggest opportunities for SMEs in the State. An Action Plan for Jobs states the ambitions of the Government are merely to increase SME awareness and identify further measures to assist public sector procurement. In other words, in the Government's fourth year in office, its ambition is to look into the matter. I sat with a previous Minister...