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Order of Business (10 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The programme for Government commits to early intervention for people with mental illness problems and to the detection and treatment of people at risk of suicide. According to figures published by Pieta House yesterday, ten people take their own lives every week in the State. It calls for suicide to be given the same attention as road deaths. Will the Government now resource and prioritise...

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Of the expanding number of crises emerging from this Government the most life-threatening is the ambulance crisis. Two weeks ago “Prime Time” broadcast an excellent programme on the collapsing ambulance service. The details were shocking. In 2008 there were 320 ambulances in this State. Last year that dropped to 265, only 137 during the day and 113 at night. That is when...

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I am not sure the Minister heard me. I did discuss outputs. I indicated that 30% of people in life-threatening situations are receiving ambulances on time in this State, under this Government. That is an output. The Minister talks about change. There is change. Access to the health service is constricted at every level, including the ambulance service. The Minister also talked about...

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: These targets take that into consideration.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (9 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the broadband roll out for rural areas of Navan, County Meath, where persons have been informed it may take ten years to reach their area, some of whom are forced to travel considerable distances to gain Internet access at libraries around their county, some of whom are unable to avail of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (9 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 115. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when money will be released to Meath County Council to enable them to begin urgent renovation work to council properties affected by pyrite in Cherry Court, Summerhill, County Meath. [16851/14]

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I am asking if the Minister of State would honestly seek to purchase such a house if she had a choice.

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a major issue. Given the option, when there are similar communities and landscapes around, very few people would seek to purchase a house that is next to a turbine for obvious reasons. The central point is that climate change is an urgent issue and the Government needs to respond in a proportionate and measured way, and it must be feasible from the point of view of community...

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I strongly support the development of green, sustainable, environmentally friendly energy. I support the development of onshore and offshore wind energy when it is done in partnership with communities. Climate change is a reality. It is, and will continue to be, one of the most serious challenges faced by Ireland and the international community in the coming decades. Climate change is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the establishment of a gaelscoil in the Celbridge area of County Kildare in view of the fact that parents in this area cannot access places in the surrounding areas, especially for those children born in 2009 and in 2010. [16713/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to deal with demand for Gaelscoil education in Kells and Oldcastle, County Meath; and his plans to deal with extra demand in Navan, County Meath. [16714/14]

Companies Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom míle buíochas a ghabháil le gach duine a ghlac páirt sa tasc ollmhór seo agus gabhaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit as é a bheith críochnaithe, sa Teach seo ar aon nós. The issue of modernising company law has taken in many people and many different views. It has seemed like an impossible task, looking back on it. However, it...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Many people in relationship breakdown do not have the funds to engage in the separation and divorce process. Many of the families involved are at their wits end. While some people may potentially have a legal claim to a property, owing to the difficulties they have left behind all they want to do is start afresh. I will give one example from the many cases with which I have been dealing....

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The number of people seeking housing advice as a result of losing their homes increased by 43% in 2013. Each week, between three and five new cases of families in mortgage distress present at my office. This is in addition to families already being processed by my office. For most of the families involved, dealing with this issue is a disaster. They experience the stress of potentially...

Companies Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: In the context of amendment No. 169, the Minister of State pointed out that the transgressions are not identified within the amendment. If those transgressions were identified in an amendment, would the Minister of State have a change of heart during the course of the debate in the Seanad on this Bill? I understand that the Minister of State is not seeking to create a body of employment law...

Companies Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not want to labour the point but we did not do that because, as the Minister of State pointed out, there could be a multitude of transgressions, most of which are encompassed within existing employment law. That is why the reference to employment law is in the amendment.

Companies Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes, I am.

Companies Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 169:In page 488, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “572. Where a breach of employment law is committed by a body corporate or by a person acting on behalf of a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent, connivance or approval of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of, a person who, when the breach...

Companies Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 175:In page 523, line 42, to delete “€10,000” and substitute “€40,000”.

Companies Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 168:In page 488, line 2, after "due," to insert "or in the case of an employee or a group of employees a sum exceeding €1,500,".Legislation is complex at the best of times but this Bill is so cumbersome, it is very difficult to have proper oversight. I ask the Government not to produce any Bills this size again. Will the Minister of State be accepting any...