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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I meet skilled and experienced people on a daily basis who, through no fault of their own, find themselves unemployed. In many cases, their self-worth has been crushed. I meet families who are struggling in extremely difficult situations, trying to pay the electricity and heating bills and keep the roof over their heads. I meet people who tell me, through their tears, about the children...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the Minister of State advising the 400,000 people on the live register to buy the newspaper?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government can choose to focus on a month here or there or some other time span to bolster its argument that change is happening and that we have turned the corner. In reality, however, when one looks at the two and a half year period in which the Government has been in office, the trend is clear. The figures are also clear when one examines initiatives such as the credit guarantee...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State is being very selective in what he chooses to highlight.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday at committee I mentioned to the Minister that the issue of jobs was a central platform of the Government when it stood for election in 2011. On every occasion Fine Gael has gone to the country in the past five or six years, be it for an election or referendum, the issue of jobs has been central. However, we are still struggling to deal with the issue of the creation of jobs. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Unemployment stabilised ten months before the Government came into power, but it has remained at the bottom since. The Minister can pick a couple of months here and there and use those statistics to try to argue in favour of his policies. However, from 2011 to 2013, the period of the Government's Administration, there has been a major net fall in the level of young people employed and in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: These are the facts and figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the achievements made by his Department in increasing the number of young persons in employment. [33596/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Like all Members present, I believe in every single case where people’s lives are threatened, they should receive every medical treatment necessary to save their lives and that there should never be any confusion whatsoever about this within the system and that where there is confusion, the necessary guidelines should be put in place to ensure the medical professionals have all the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: There is so little time that many of the amendments under discussion will have no opportunity for success owing to the fact that they are outside the constitutional limits. I have a worry that there may be an effort to filibuster affecting the opportunity to have the amendments that have an opportunity under the Constitution discussed.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I will make a few brief points. The 1992 and 2002 referenda were defeated by both the pro-choice and pro-life campaigns and it is a brave person who will interpret the message of Ivana Bacik and Dana when they speak with one voice on an abortion campaign. This legislation allows for the State to disable a child without any basis in medical evidence. It is difficult to say this, but a...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I genuinely believe every single Deputy in this Chamber has come to his or her view on the basis of compassion and justice, no matter what their perspective is. I also believe we enter dangerous waters when we decouple health policy from peer reviewed medical evidence. In a matter of life and death, if it is a choice between the strident voices in this Chamber and the medical expertise of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of additional jobs he expects to be created by the establishment of the €375,000 Enterprise Ireland competitive feasibility fund. [33490/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Aircraft Leasing Sector (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the value and number of jobs directly sustained by the aircraft leasing sector. [33491/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs 2013: Discussion with Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (9 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire mar gheall ar a chuid cur i láthair. We are approaching the halfway point of the Government's term. Job creation is the biggest issue and was the biggest issue in the 2011 general election and the fiscal treaty referendum. The Government promised 100,000 additional new jobs by 2016. The household survey figures for the first quarter of 2013 and the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 79. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of each social protection scheme; the annual cost of each scheme; and the numbers availing of the payment for each of the past three years. [33270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (9 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare allowance applications received in 2012; the number refused by community welfare officers; and the numbers appealed and upheld on appeal. [33271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (9 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if base line employment data is provided by companies seeking support from the Industrial Development Authority, Enterprise Ireland and county enterprise boards; and if these companies are obliged to make annual employment returns to the agencies concerned as a condition of support. [33406/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (9 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that the process for medical reviews of appeals for benefits such as invalidity pension and disability allowance is a desk exercise in which a medical assessor may not have detailed knowledge of the medical conditions of the person seeking the review; and if she will confirm that a person seeking an appeal has the right to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Services (4 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 43. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the new national co-ordinator for the Children's Services Committees has taken up office as anticipated before the end of last month; if she will provide an up-to-date report on the development of the 16 CSCs already established; her plans to continue to establish CSCs where they are not currently in place; and if she will make a...