Results 13,401-13,420 of 16,369 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: What are the financial implications for the Department of the Workplace Relations Bill?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I apologise and do not want to hold up the meeting, but I have a quick question pertaining to Programme B before we move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: My question refers to research and development tax credits. Are there any figures available which will help us to understand the impact such credits have had on expenditure, research and jobs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Such detailed information would be very interesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: In the course of a year most elected representatives will have somebody contact him or her about having applied for a grant, giving out that they could not get a grant and the difficulties they had in accessing this, that and the other. What is the likelihood of the full drawdown of Enterprise Ireland and SFI grants this year? Is it likely that all the funding for the grants will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I ask that the Chairman bear with me for a minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: The system of local enterprise offices has been one of the major planks of the Minister's enterprise policy for the past three years. I wish the staff of the various offices well in their efforts. However, there is a fear among the enterprise community that the relationship between the LEOs and the local authorities, on the one hand, and the relationship between the LEOs and Enterprise...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I refer to the budget for Enterprise Ireland. In June the Department submitted a detailed response to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the comprehensive review of capital expenditure process, which that Department is currently reviewing. When will the Minister publish his Department's submission? The Department has experienced a decrease in its budgets over the past...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Before we leave that focus, I refer to the possible development of a new mayor for Dublin and the possibility that FDI for Dublin would be under his or her remit. Surely that would be a disaster and would go against the current policy whereby FDI is centralised with the IDA? What are the views of the Minister on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: What does the Minister put that down to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Are they typically more open?
- 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 issue of Shannon, as we know, Shannon Development was set up to focus on a particular region. If one looks at enterprise policy in recent years, however, there has been a swing away from focusing on regions to focusing on the State as a whole. Is there a danger that a reduced focus on the Shannon region will result in a reduction in the level of enterprise development there? Perhaps...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: The first objective of the Government is to create an environment where business can grow, but the Government also creates jobs. Through semi-State bodies, etc., the Government is one of the biggest employers in the State, if not the biggest. In a time when private investment has collapsed there is an onus on the Government to bridge that investment gap by directly creating jobs. Some of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Is it a numerical investment? In other words, is it the case that we had perhaps 50 investments at the start of the year, so 20 of those went outside the Cork-Dublin area or is it the case that we had €100 billion worth of investments from the start of the year and €40 billion went outside this area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhénamh leis an Aire Stáit mar gheall ar a phost nua. Is mian liom freisin comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis an gCathaoirleach. Tá súil agam go n-éireoidh go mór leo sna róil nua atá acu. I am pleased to note the Department has a Meath element. I hope it will pay dividends to the good citizens of the county in the...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: D'éirigh an Coimisinéir Teanga as a phost i mí Feabhra i mbliana. Bhí sé mar dhualgas ag an gcoimisinéir monatóireacht a dhéanamh ar eagrais Stáit agus a chinntiú de go bhfuil siad ag comhlíonadh a gcuid dualgaisí faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla. Ar maidin, chuir mé ceist ar an Aire agus ar an Aire Stáit mar gheall...
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Theip orthu iad a fhreagairt. Tá sé dochreidte nach raibh siad in ann na ceisteanna a thuiscint nó a fhreagairt. Cathain a thiocfaidh Bille na dteangacha oifigiúla (leasú) 2014 os comhair na Dála?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Quesitons: An Teanga Gaeilge (16 Jul 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: At the start of the year we had the unprecidented event of An Coimisinéir Teanga, the Ombudsman for the Irish language, resigning such was the disaster of Government policy and commitment to the Irish language. This has never before happened in this State or in any other country. The coimisinéir did not take that decision lightly. He did so because at every step this Government...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Quesitons: An Teanga Gaeilge (16 Jul 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: This Government is not motivated to provide services through Irish to people in the Gaeltacht and members of the Government are clearly not motivated to learn it so that they can do the job asked of them.