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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Home Care Provision: Discussion with Home and Community Care Ireland (2 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: What is the average hourly rate for workers in the industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Home Care Provision: Discussion with Home and Community Care Ireland (2 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Is there an average?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Home Care Provision: Discussion with Home and Community Care Ireland (2 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: How does that compare with the public sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Home Care Provision: Discussion with Home and Community Care Ireland (2 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Are there other differences in terms and conditions between the public and private sectors? Mr. Murphy mentioned tax relief for private delivery. Does he know how much that costs the State annually?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairman Designate of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (2 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Ms O'Neill is correct that the organisation that she is soon to step into is important in the context of the credibility of the State in regard to manufacturing and foreign direct investment. It is a key role. I have looked over Ms O'Neill's impressive career. She has held a large number of high profile and important roles. My questions are not specifically about Ms O'Neill although it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairman Designate of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (2 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that. Are we entitled to ask questions about the candidate or are we just here to welcome her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairman Designate of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (2 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: None of my questions is meant in a personal capacity. I said at the beginning that Ms O'Neill has had a strong career. As an elected representative, it is my job to hold the process to account. Will she declare whether she has been involved in political campaigns in the past?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairman Designate of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (2 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The purpose of the questions was to hold the process to account and I wish Ms O'Neill every luck and strength in her role over the next while.

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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Funding (4 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 224. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding European Refugee Fund, ERF, and European Integration Fund, EIF, funding. [32858/13]

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...

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...

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.

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]

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...