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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 416. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations; if he has sought the exclusion of public services from the free trade agreement investor-state dispute settlements, ISDS, mechanism; and if he will call for the full exclusion of ISDSs from the agreement. [34412/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 418. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the State's right to regulate is protected in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership free trade agreement; and if so, if he will illustrate the way. [34414/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 417. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of meetings he has held with civil society groups and the number of meetings with corporations, lobbyists and other business representative groups regarding the transatlantic trade and investment partnership free trade agreement. [34413/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 419. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason he supports the inclusion of investor-state dispute settlements in free trade agreements signed up to by Ireland or the EU. [34415/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 420. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of jobs created here directly as a result of each of the EU free trade agreements to which the State has signed up. [34416/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 429. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the negotiations between Canada and the EU on a comprehensive economic and trade agreement, CETA, are almost complete; if he has raised any concerns about including investor state dispute settlements, ISDS, provisions in the agreement; if his attention has been drawn to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Early Child Care Education (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1092. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to discontinue the Health Service Executive's pre-school assistance subsidy to support children with Down syndrome and other disabilities from 2015. [34418/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1093. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide, in tabular form, the annual number of discretionary medical cards and discretionary general practitioner cards revoked on review between 1 July 2011 and 31 May 2014. [34425/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1094. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide in tabular form the number of discretionary medical cards and discretionary general practitioner cards reinstated in June, July and August 2014. [34426/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken over the summer recess to ensure the human rights of a person (details supplied) have been upheld; when the Irish Consulate in Egypt last visited the person; and the actions that have been taken to ensure the person has access to their legal representatives and medical care. [34417/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1768. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that over 100 qualified Irish language translators on the Séala State Panel of Qualified Translators received a brief e-mail from National University of Ireland Galway on behalf of Foras na Gaeilge informing them of the cancellation of their séala if received before 2013; if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The committee made a decision to request a debate in the Dáil. Our work on that issue is probably finished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes, but we are waiting for the response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I have one question that does not relate to that specific area but relates to an issue on which the Minister may be able to help us. May I pose the question now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: We had a strong discussion in this committee on the EU-Colombia free trade agreement. I think a letter was sent from this committee to the Minister requesting a debate on the floor of the Dáil on whether the State supports the free trade agreement. There has to be a vote in the Dáil on whether the State supports the free trade agreement. Has there been a positive response to that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: As the Minister is probably aware the free trade agreement with Colombia is very contentious. It is not the average free trade agreement, if there is such a thing. We had a cross-party delegation meeting with Justice for Colombia, Trócaire and a large number of highly respected NGOs who are actively campaigning for the Government not to proceed with the free trade agreement in its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that. The initial statement was that the joint committee had sent a letter to the Minister asking for a Dáil debate on the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is our responsibility, as Oireachtas Members, to represent the Irish view. When human rights lawyers come to the Oireachtas such as Christian Aid Ireland, Trócaire, Latin America Solidarity Centre, Justice for Colombia-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: On the ability of the Competition Authority to fulfil its responsibilities, will sufficient funding be available to allow the authority to process all requests made to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The new body will have ten new staff.