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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Rights (10 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the definition of insolvency under the Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) Act 1984, section 4, subsection 2 to provide for a situation of informal insolvency to enable employees access the insolvency payment scheme where an employer fails to wind up a company as has happened in the case of a company (details...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments (10 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement of 15 May 2014 if he will provide a full breakdown of each of the investments, including the moneys allocated, committed to from the National Pensions Reserve Fund in advance of the establishment of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. [24442/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments (10 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement of 15 May 2014 if he will provide full details of €350 million allocation from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to three new long-term funds intended to provide equity, credit and restructuring-recovery investment for Irish small and medium-sized enterprises; if these allocations are additional to any previous...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments (10 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement of 15 May 2014 if he will provide the monetary figure allocated from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to the collaboration with Silicon Valley Bank of new lending commitments; if he will provide details of the administration and allocation of the moneys. [24444/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments (10 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement of 15 May 2014 if he will provide the monetary figure allocated from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to the fund established with China Investment Corporation; and if he will provide details of the administration and allocation of the moneys. [24445/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments (10 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of moneys invested into the Irish Infrastructure Fund from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to date; and if the fund has tendered for or procured any asset disposed of by the State. [24446/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Programme Expenditure (10 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 324 of 27 May 2014, if he will consider collating the necessary data to enable his Department to provide, on an annual basis, details of construction related capital expenditure. [24298/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Stádas na Gaeilge san Eoraip (10 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 355. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an aontaíonn sé le cinneadh a Roinne gan an cúrsa samhraidh ‘Aistriúchán Cáipéisí Dlí agus Cáipéisí Stáit eile’ a cheadú; an aontaíonn sé go bhfuil an cinneadh sin ag teacht salach ar ráitis éagsúla ó pholaiteoirí...

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 9. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress on ratification of the European Union’s trade agreement with Colombia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23802/14]

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Colombia has had 60 years of conflict, at the heart of which has been the question of land and land grab. According to Karol Balfe of Christian Aid Ireland, Colombia has more internally displaced people than anywhere else on Earth, with an estimated 4.9 million to 5.5 million people displaced. The European Union is seeking the ratification of a trade agreement with Colombia and it is...

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: A total of 70,000 civilians have been killed in Colombia over 20 years and there are widespread systematic human rights violations. These are directly linked to the extremely unequal distribution of land, power and wealth. The Minister has a major opportunity to carry out very important leverage by not ratifying this trade agreement. The European Parliament previously refused to ratify the...

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: In 2012, the European Parliament called for the inclusion of a comprehensive human rights chapter in addition to the social and environmental chapters in all future trade agreements. There is no such chapter in this trade agreement. In 2013, there was an increase in social protests, which led to a peak in violence, as a result of the opposition by the people of Colombia to the trade...

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Can we debate it in the Chamber?

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister offer time?

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: We will ask the committee to raise the matter.

Other Questions: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the intended reform of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 Bill fulfils the programme for Government commitment to reform the current law on employees' right to engage in collective bargaining to ensure compliance by the State with recent judgements of the European Court of Human Rights. [23803/14]

Other Questions: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday, I met the representative of the Paris Bakery at a demonstration outside Leinster House. While I was listening to the speakers, I realised the Government is not friendly towards workers at all and those who thought that voting for Labour would take the extreme edges off Fine Gael have been sorely disappointed with regard to collective bargaining, which is a human right and is...

Other Questions: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I tabled the Protection of Employees (Amendment) Bill in 2012, but Labour and Fine Gael voted against it. This Bill would have prevented the situation we now have in regard to the Paris Bakery. Under the current Government, we have seen an increase in part-time, short-term and zero hours contracts and seen a reduction in Sunday premiums. Workers, therefore, have suffered under the...

Other Questions: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The key or crux is that if it is a voluntary system, we do not have collective bargaining. If, instead of having a voluntary system, the Minister is just substituting a convoluted, complex legal process through which workers are forced to use the courts to try to grab back their rights, this makes it more difficult for workers to ensure their rights are upheld. In all of this, there must be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Losses (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs that were lost in the wholesale and retail sector in the first quarter of this year; the causes of the job losses; and his plans to reverse these losses. [23953/14]