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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cruthú Fostaíochta (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá an ceart ag an Aire Stáit. Scrios Fianna Fáil an buiséad agus níl dabht ar bith faoi sin, ach tá an Rialtas ag glacadh leis an baton go huile agus go hiomlán agus ag déanamh an rud céanna. An bhfuil a fhios ag an Aire Stáit cé mhéad duine atá dífhostaithe sa Ghaeltacht? Cé mhéad duine atá tar éis...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndeimhneoidh sé go n-íocfar íocaíochtaí iomarcaíochta reachtúla leo siúd ar fad a chaillfidh a bpoist de bharr chur i bhfeidhm an mhúnla nua mhaoinithe agus mura bhfuil na hacmhainní cuí ag na heagrais chun na híocaíochtaí sin a dhéanamh, an gcinnteoidh an...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Saincheisteanna Gaeilge (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad chuige a bhfuil deireadh á chur le seirbhísí nuachta agus eolais Gaelport.com nuair nach bhfuil aon chinneadh déanta maidir lena dtiocfaidh i gcomharbas air; an eol dó go bhfuil an-rath ar sheirbhísí Gaelport.com agus go bhfuil an t-éileamh ar an tseirbhís ag dul ó neart go...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the annual year-on-year figure for the number of PPS applications from persons domiciled in the North of Ireland and the number of PPS allocations made to persons domiciled in the North of Ireland for each year of the most recent consecutive five years for which data are available. [18383/14]

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Before the break, we discussed the importance of regulation but also the importance of the enforcement of regulation. This is a critical issue for so many elements of industry. We spoke about the difficulties experienced by many companies within the concrete industry and the damage done to the industry's consumers, including the State which would have been a massive consumer of concrete in...

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Is rudaí uafásach tábhachtacha iad cúrsaí iomaíochta agus cosaint tomhaltóirí. Ba cheart don Rialtas an chumhacht a chur i lámha na ndaoine mar gheall ar na rudaí seo. This legislation provides for the merger of the National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority into a single body to be known as the competition and consumer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Minister agree that a focus on growth would be more useful for deficit reduction and more successful for the citizen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I will let the Minister answer that question first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is probably the case of the Minister playing his cards close to his chest to help in Cabinet negotiations in the future. This State is the most indebted of any state, globally. Has the Government considered different ways by which household debt could be alleviated through budgetary measures? Up to 120,000 enterprises have closed over the past several years, which is a phenomenal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the major points is that citizens consume services delivered by the State such as health care, education, etc. We have seen the budgets for these services contract massively over the past several years. This stability programme indicates static spending for the four years involved. Has the Minister identified what the population rate will be like in this time? Is it a case that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has focused on reducing the deficit through austerity. It has reduced the ceiling of public service consumption and has increased taxes through flat taxes. There is another idea, namely, reducing the deficit through growth. That requires stimulus through investment and the taking out of flat taxes such as water and property charges. For example, with the ambulance service,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned fiscal union earlier. It seems that different economies in Europe have different productivity levels, many of which are divergent, and entering into a tight fiscal union in those circumstances is a recipe for disaster. The twin-track Europe we have currently where Germany and France set the rules and the smaller countries in particular are forced to follow them is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Is Mr. O'Connor talking about a write-down?

Other Questions: Regional Aid (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: May I contribute on this question? I raised my hand.

Other Questions: Regional Aid (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to contribute. I have an entitlement to speak on this question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: We have been listening to many banks today. We have received conflicting information from the banks and from a number of SMEs. The SMEs tell us that it is very difficult to get a loan and the banks tell us that the vast majority - 90% - are getting loans. It would seem that a filtering process is being used by the banks before the formal loan application is made and that from the point of...

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not my contention but that of the survey that the small and medium enterprise sector is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the Government's progress on this issue. In this regard, the survey cites the lack of and reduction in credit over the past year and the procurement rules operated by this State, including the continuing policy of rolling up procurement in this State which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Only in a closure scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I have just one question that was not answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank and AIB (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: What percentage of the businesses are in debt distress?