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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Report on Access to Finance for SMEs: InterTradeIreland (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Bhí an cur i láthair sin an-suimiúil. I have many questions, and I will address some of the general ones on InterTradeIreland now. Has its budget been cut in the past while and what is the plan for future budgets? I am unsure of whether Mr. Gough has the freedom to answer my next question, but could InterTradeIreland do more if it had the resources? Is InterTradeIreland's...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Branch Closures (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of bank retail outlets that have been closed in the State in the past three years; the locations of these banks; the amount it would cost the State to take ownership of these premises; and the estimated annual running costs. [14165/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 445. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will seek to convert a number of bank retail units that have no other immediate viable retail opportunity into enterprise centres for start up businesses for a nominal rent. [14165/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Private Rented Accommodation Provision (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 536. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the provisions being put in place to deal with the rent allowance shortfall and the fact that many hard-pressed tenants are forced to make additional monthly top up payments to secure the rental property in the first instance; and the way this impromtu solution leads to a distortion of actual rent figures and the allowances needed by social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 559. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if citizens' applications for welfare and pensions and their associated files are sent via e-mail or post, the processing times for all forms of applications to her Department; and the associated postage costs. [14054/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1042. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on two matters related to waiting lists for hospital care; if he will provide a breakdown of figures regarding waiting times for a consultant visit in 2011, 2012 and 2013 in all the regional hospitals; and if he will provide a similar itemisation for waiting times for treatment for the same years again in the same...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1051. To ask the Minister for Health when a night consultant will be employed at Navan Hospital emergency department. [13128/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1057. To ask the Minister for Health when the two consultant physicians who will be lost to Navan hospital in the next two months will be replaced by two permanent consultant physicians based in Navan. [13135/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1071. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a consultant visit in respect of a person (details supplied). [13409/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (25 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the ten most expensive Bus Éireann journeys in the State per kilometre; and the ten least expensive journeys in the State per kilometre. [13916/14]

Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Is maith an rud é go bhfuil a leithéid de dhul chun cinn déanta. Ceapaim gur cheart don Rialtas i bhfad níos mó bolscaireachta a dhéanamh sa chomhthéacs seo chun dul i dteagmháil le gach éinne atá ag iompar clainne, ní hamháin sa Ghaeltacht ach sa Ghalltacht freisin. Ba cheart go mbeadh fógraíocht i ngach ospidéal...

Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Cúpla bliain ó shin tháinig na páirtithe agus na heagraíochtaí agus an grúpa go léir le chéile chun Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge a chur i bhfeidhm. Is rud iontach é mar is annamh go mbíonn comhdhearcadh ag an méid sin daoine sa tír. Bhí tacaíocht ó gach cearn den Teach agus beagnach gach cearn den...

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I add my voice to that of Deputy Wallace. There has been an increase in underemployment under the Government, including in the last set of figures. There are thousands of workers who work to seven day, zero hours contracts with no guarantee of work, which is exploitative. It disproportionately affects those who are on very low incomes, in particular women. We must value care work in our...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate any jobs that come into the country in these straitened times but a business typically wants a skilled workforce, an infrastructure and an ability to make a profit. In most parts of the country that exists. What we need in the areas that do not have those is Government attention focused on providing those into the future. Government direction is also needed. Up until now...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Therefore, the Minister agrees with me that there is the ability to provide these targets and such direction.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs that have been created in each county in the State by Industrial Development Agency companies who were new to Ireland in 2013. [12291/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Delivery of the Government's enterprise policy is seriously uneven, with the development of a very clear two-tier economy. People in the Border area, the midlands and the west are far more likely to be in poverty, to be unemployed and to have someone in their family emigrate. The last census saw a population increase but these areas saw a population decrease. The National Youth Council of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is all the one. It is Government policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The new way questions are formulated makes it very difficult for a Minister to give an answer and for a Deputy to ask a question. Everybody is rushing to get his or her words out and it is not conducive to proper debate. The Minister said the question I asked is different from the written one. They are one and the same because, as the Minister said, FDI only produces a small proportion of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (13 Mar 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of investment that has been made into small to medium sized Irish manufacturers and internationally traded firms by his Department for each of the past five years; and the way this compares to the total investment into FDI in the State over each of the past five years. [12290/14]