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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I was in County Donegal a week ago and met representatives of a manufacturing company that had carried out an Enterprise Ireland lean manufacturing programme. While the company was going to the next level of that programme, it found it far too cumbersome to engage with Enterprise Ireland in the delivery thereof and sourced it itself, albeit in a much scaled-down version, because obviously...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: My questions are similar to a certain extent. We saw the figure of six additional Enterprise Ireland jobs developed last year. While great work is ongoing, indigenous businesses often tell as they have difficulty drawing down grants. In addition, sometimes after grants have been drawn down, so many steps are put in front of them they are better off not drawing down the grants and trying to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The title of the page is "Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Supplementary Estimate".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: It could be an error but at the bottom of the table it refers to "less savings in subheadings B4 of €5.738 million". However, when one looks at the original Estimate totals, it appears as though the difference is only €738,000. While I acknowledge this could be an error, the Minister might explain it. My general questions concern the key performance indicators on where those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Information and Communications Technology Skills: Discussion with Ministers (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas as an cur i láthair inniu. My first couple of questions are for the Minister, Deputy Bruton. I applaud all the good work that is being done with regard to ICT development in this State, which obviously is one of those demand-led developments internationally. I have a worry that when people discuss jobs in general, they often focus on the ICT sector very quickly...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Tests (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to keep the cost of taking driving tests down in view of the large increase in recent years. [52699/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Employment (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he has taken to ensure that the tourism sector is delivering added employment from the 9% rate of VAT; if he will outline the effects of the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52694/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of additional resources released by his Department to resolve the delay in processing student grant applications; the date by which all outstanding applications will be processed; and the support offered to students struggling financially to stay in education due to this delay. [52171/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of spend per head of population, on a county basis, by Enterprise Ireland and by the Industrial Development Agency since 2006. [52167/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the grant aid or other payments made by his Department to Chambers Ireland, IBEC, ISME and the SFA for each of the past five years. [52173/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department or in bodies which fall under the remit of his Department whose annual remuneration including salary, pension and benefits at 31 December 2011 fell into bands of €400,000 and above, between €300,000 to €399,999, between €200,000 to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has made any contacts requesting staff whose annual salary is more than €200,000 in his Department or in any body under the remit of his Department, to waive 15% of their salary or such amount in excess of €200,000 whichever is the lesser; if he has, the date on which he first made this contact; the number of staff...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Application Numbers (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current number of outstanding applications for invalidity pension, broken down by months outstanding, the number of medical staff employed to conduct medical reviews and the number of additional staff deployed to clear the backlog. [52292/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a comprehensive set of supports will be in place for those affected by narcolepsy associated with the vaccine pandemrix; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52433/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail his contact with the SOUND group dealing with sufferers of narcolepsy associated with pandemrix; and any commitment made to the group [52434/12]

Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Last Monday, we took a trip to see approximately 25 businesses in County Donegal to get an understanding of their status. We were at an engineering firm on the Inishowen Peninsula, whose management made the point that the way in which Lean management and Lean manufacturing programmes are delivered through Enterprise Ireland is very awkward for them. They end up not accessing them from...

Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like to ask a question.

Other Questions: Retail Sector (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Nevin Economic Research Institute has indicated 30,000 jobs have been lost in the retail and wholesale sectors in recent years and the knock-on effect of these losses in local areas has been greater than this. Some parts of the State and some retail sectors have experienced a lift in recent months, but the main streets of many provincial towns have a significant number of shops boarded...

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome some of the changes the Government has introduced with regard to finance. The scale of the problem is that approximately €40 billion in private sector investment has come of the economy in recent years. The Government set up the credit guarantee scheme which cost it €6 million over three years. It is putting in €2 million on an annual basis through that scheme...

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: In the credit guarantee.