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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: No.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: No.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Perhaps I might make a proposal in response to the Minister's comments.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I have no problem doing so in public session. The Minister has indicated that all investigations must be fair and objective. I would add the word "timely" to the list. Is there any estimate of when the investigations will take place? Are they likely to take place this year or in the next 24 months? I propose that we suspend the sitting until we receive a report of the status of the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like to make two comments. We are here to discuss a very important piece of industrial relations infrastructure, and I welcome many of the issues involved in it, but it is very difficult to debate this Bill while, in the background, a dispute is going on in the Kishogue site.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to make the Chairman aware that I will call a vote on every amendment-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: ------in 22 hours of debate, unless the Government starts to focus on the issues-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I will call a vote on every amendment. Currently, there are three investigation into the Kishogue site. None of those investigations is complete.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: These individuals are working for €5 per hour, or €20 per day.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Their families are impoverished and yet the-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The function of the State-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Select Committee (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I intend to table amendments between sections 11 and 13, and to sections 24, 31, 32, 36(4), 39 and 68 and to insert a new section after sections 25 and 26. Does the Chairman wish me to refer to the content of the amendments?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions his Department and the Office of Government Procurement intend to take to increase indigenous small and medium enterprises tendering for public procurement contracts. [42060/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (6 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the provisions in public procurement contracts that preclude contractors from engaging in exploitative work practices. [42061/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Measures (5 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will list, in tabular form, all Bills introduced by his Department between 2009 and to date in 2014; if each of these Bills was drafted by civil servants, or a legislative drafter with a public sector short-term contract, or where the Bill was outsourced to a legislative drafter-legal professional; and if he will provide in an...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: They cannot afford it.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The point I am making in the amendment is not only with regard to the legislation but also to the upcoming transatlantic trade and investment partnership, TTIP, agreement.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Select Committee (4 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes, it would be no harm.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 10: In page 4, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "Common good 3.The Patents Act 1992 is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 61:"Common good 61A.The achievement of the common good may require permanent or temporary interference with the rights, including intellectual property rights, of persons or corporate...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Imports and Exports Data (4 Nov 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 133. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the annual volume of freight exports and imports that came through the local ports between 2004 and 2014. [40708/14]