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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the major points is that citizens consume services delivered by the State such as health care, education, etc. We have seen the budgets for these services contract massively over the past several years. This stability programme indicates static spending for the four years involved. Has the Minister identified what the population rate will be like in this time? Is it a case that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has focused on reducing the deficit through austerity. It has reduced the ceiling of public service consumption and has increased taxes through flat taxes. There is another idea, namely, reducing the deficit through growth. That requires stimulus through investment and the taking out of flat taxes such as water and property charges. For example, with the ambulance service,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Irish Stability Programme Update: Minister for Finance (15 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Minister agree that a focus on growth would be more useful for deficit reduction and more successful for the citizen?

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Is rudaí uafásach tábhachtacha iad cúrsaí iomaíochta agus cosaint tomhaltóirí. Ba cheart don Rialtas an chumhacht a chur i lámha na ndaoine mar gheall ar na rudaí seo. This legislation provides for the merger of the National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority into a single body to be known as the competition and consumer...

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Before the break, we discussed the importance of regulation but also the importance of the enforcement of regulation. This is a critical issue for so many elements of industry. We spoke about the difficulties experienced by many companies within the concrete industry and the damage done to the industry's consumers, including the State which would have been a massive consumer of concrete in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cruthú Fostaíochta (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén sprioc cruthaithe fostaíochta atá ag Údarás na Gaeltachta do 2014 agus cé mhéad post a chruthaigh siad sa chéad cheathrú. [18229/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cruthú Fostaíochta (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá rudaí uafásach deacair ag an bomaite seo sa Ghaeltacht mar gheall ar chúrsaí eacnamaíochta agus fostaíochta. Mar is eol don Aire Stáit, cailleadh 140 post i nGaoth Dobhair i nDún na nGall cúpla seachtain ó shin. Thar timpeall na nGaeltachtaí ar fad, tá géarchéim fostaíochta anois. Ní thugann na...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cruthú Fostaíochta (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá fadhbanna ollmhóra ann agus tá ganntanas post ar an talamh. Ó na figiúirí ar tugadh dúinn, níor chruthaíodh ach 96 post úr san iomlán sna Gaeltachtaí an bhliain seo caite. Tá sin dochreidte nuair a smaoiníonn muid go bhfuil muid i lár na géarchéime eacnamaíochta is measa ar feadh glúine. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cruthú Fostaíochta (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá an ceart ag an Aire Stáit. Scrios Fianna Fáil an buiséad agus níl dabht ar bith faoi sin, ach tá an Rialtas ag glacadh leis an baton go huile agus go hiomlán agus ag déanamh an rud céanna. An bhfuil a fhios ag an Aire Stáit cé mhéad duine atá dífhostaithe sa Ghaeltacht? Cé mhéad duine atá tar éis...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cruthú Fostaíochta (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: B'fhéidir gur plantation nua a bheadh i gceist.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: We have done so and we posted a copy of it to the Tánaiste as well.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I have a copy of it here.

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: What is proposed is a flat tax on low and middle-income earners.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndeimhneoidh sé go n-íocfar íocaíochtaí iomarcaíochta reachtúla leo siúd ar fad a chaillfidh a bpoist de bharr chur i bhfeidhm an mhúnla nua mhaoinithe agus mura bhfuil na hacmhainní cuí ag na heagrais chun na híocaíochtaí sin a dhéanamh, an gcinnteoidh an...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Saincheisteanna Gaeilge (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad chuige a bhfuil deireadh á chur le seirbhísí nuachta agus eolais Gaelport.com nuair nach bhfuil aon chinneadh déanta maidir lena dtiocfaidh i gcomharbas air; an eol dó go bhfuil an-rath ar sheirbhísí Gaelport.com agus go bhfuil an t-éileamh ar an tseirbhís ag dul ó neart go...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (17 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the annual year-on-year figure for the number of PPS applications from persons domiciled in the North of Ireland and the number of PPS allocations made to persons domiciled in the North of Ireland for each year of the most recent consecutive five years for which data are available. [18383/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Application Fees (30 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will reduce the price of the passport express service when delivery is not made within the specified timeframe; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that passport express applicants are not being guaranteed delivery within the advertised timeframe. [19042/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has personally met with representatives of the TEEU to discuss the introduction of apprenticeship fees. [19518/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Management Structures (30 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 271. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a management chart for his Department. [19379/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (30 Apr 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of all offices currently under the aegis of his Department. [19380/14]