Results 2,161-2,180 of 16,285 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013) Peadar Tóibín: This administration is purely the departmental kind, rather than the agencies' administration.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013) Peadar Tóibín: I am trying to get an understanding of the pay rates and scales in this Department and how they differ from those in other Departments.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013) Peadar Tóibín: Administration costs per person, for example, would give an average of the costs per person in the Department.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013) Peadar Tóibín: Not necessarily, because the administration costs would be more than the pay.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013) Peadar Tóibín: I am asking the Minister to separate all the agencies from the Department. As we see the figures here, the Department's administration is completely separate from the budgets and activities of the agencies.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013) Peadar Tóibín: I believe the lady over there understands what I am trying to say.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013) Peadar Tóibín: Okay. I can work it out from there. Those three figures will allow me to work it out.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013) Peadar Tóibín: I accept the Minister and the Department are busy. The point I was trying to make in regard to the administration of the Department in its entirety was that there is a difference between being busy and outputs. Where I would have issues in regard to the Minister's work is in regard to outputs. He mentioned that the issue of job creation has not reached every door and I made the point that...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Perhaps Deputy Calleary could tell us a little more. I am not sure what is meant by this because as far as I understand, there are no all-Ireland research bodies established as part of the Good Friday Agreement. InterTradeIreland and Waterways Ireland do not necessarily have research body elements to them. Both of us are speaking from an all-Ireland basis and Deputy Calleary wants to...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: We add our voices to that and support it. It is clear that gender balance improves the functioning of boards across the State and this is a good amendment.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: It is very clear that in cases where gender balance is not apparent on boards, there is a dearth of experience and knowledge and inputs that would make a positive benefit to the running of the boards. Sometimes it is a chicken and egg situation as to which comes first, the culture or the legislation. I believe legislation can change culture. It is incumbent on the Minister of State to...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 12: In page 6, line 8, after “subsection (1)” to insert the following:“by inserting, “and debated by either or both Houses of the Oireachtas” after “House of the Oireachtas” and ”. As has been discussed so far, the Bill provides for significant changes in the role and remit of SFI and includes the creation of the...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that and in a previous discussion, the Minister of State displayed his desire to engage on these issues in a more open way. It would provide a window to the entire process and I will defer it until Report Stage.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Not for the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach should answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: That is a disgrace.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: That is disgusting.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: We are abstentionists.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Why does Deputy Anthony Lawlor not stand for election in Castlereagh? He would not get one vote.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: And emigration.