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State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: We have seen four years of family and community-breaking austerity, a contracting economy, stagnant demand, forced emigration, sky high unemployment and reducing tax receipts. One would imagine that serious consideration would be given to a change in policy. Evidently not. Instead, the new Government already faces a contracting economy, which makes a fantasy of the budgetary projections...

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: We have the disgusting spectacle of Fine Gael and Labour cashing in hard-earned and profitable family jewels at the pawnbrokers to pay down Anglo Irish Bank and other private banking debt. I welcome the fact that the coming referendum will allow people the opportunity to reject these policies and to chart a new economic course for the country.

Trade Missions (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Can the Minister tell the House how much is being spent on promoting indigenous Irish exports, and how it compares to making FDI attractive in Ireland?

Redundancy Payments (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Currently, a total of 29,000 people are awaiting their statutory redundancy claims. That is an incredible figure. People are also waiting ten months to get minimum pay to which they are entitled from businesses that have been wound up. Has the Minister spoken to the Minister for Social Protection to ensure the issue is resolved for those individuals, many of whom are suffering greatly from...

Irish Language (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The development of the gaelscoileanna sector has been one of the few positives in terms of the Irish language, even though we usually hear negative stories about the Irish language. Some 30,000 children attend gaelscoileanna, representing approximately 5% of the child population. According to a Foras na Gaeilge study, approximately 25% of parents would send their children to gaelscoileanna...

Irish Language (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has to start recognising rights in regard to the Irish language. The fact that two new Irish schools will open in September reveals the contrast between the Government's actions and the level of demand that exists. Other European countries have managed to meet this target. In Wales, 23% of children attend all-Welsh schools, up from 18% ten years ago. In the 1980s only 5% of...

Irish Language (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: There are not enough places to meet demand.

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation with respect to the new action plan for jobs, if he will detail the future relationship between county enterprise boards, local authorities and Enterprise Ireland; if his plan will necessitate the relocation of the physical enterprise facility to the local authority; if it will necessitate a reduction in the CEB work force;...

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Today we found out that 7,131 young people, under 25 years of age, left the live register in the past month. Most of them left due to emigration and there is a strong view that we are entering into the times of the 1950s and 1980s with regard to the level of emigration. Some 76,000 people, or 1,300 every month, left last year. There is a view that county enterprise boards are the first...

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: In many cases, local authorities have been orientated against enterprise. Given the seriousness of the jobs crisis, which cannot be underlined enough, what resources will the Government put in place to reorient local authorities to ensure they have an enterprise culture? An enterprise culture will not be created overnight or in a year. Local entrepreneurs and small businesses see local...

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: It is very important that this is done properly and that the necessary change in culture happens in local authorities. What will the Minister do to achieve that?

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned that Enterprise Ireland will have a significant part in directing this process. The fears of Deputies is that regionalisation of administration often leads to uneven delivery of service. For example, Kildare gets nine times as much investment from the IDA as Meath. My view is that this is because it is delivered on a regional basis. If the driving of the new...

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: What about incubation centres?

Written Answers — Performance Management Systems: Performance Management Systems (28 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the performance assessment measures particularly with regards to policy implementation he intends to put in place following the Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation finding that the Civil Service management capacity here is slightly below the EU average. [11221/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Meetings: Departmental Meetings (28 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance the meetings that he, his special advisers or senior departmental officials have had with representatives of a company (details supplied). [10656/12]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (28 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment of the jobs created by the changes to commercial stamp duty and capital gains tax as outlined in the Finance Bill. [10661/12]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (28 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance the anticipated cost to the Exchequer of the changes to commercial stamp duty and capital gains tax as outlined in the Finance Bill 2012. [10662/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Meetings: Departmental Meetings (28 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the meetings that he, his special advisers or senior departmental officials have had with representatives of a company (details supplied). [10657/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (28 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his assessment of the jobs created by the changes to commercial stamp duty and capital gains tax as outlined in the Finance Bill. [10660/12]

Written Answers — Prompt Payment System: Prompt Payment System (28 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 325: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail an assessment of adherence to Prompt Payment of Accounts Act 1997 by the bodies included in the schedule. [11280/12]