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Other Questions: Seed Capital Scheme Payments (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister is aware of the sharp reduction in the level of lending to businesses in recent years. Even three years into the term of the Government lending to businesses is flat at best. Lending, private investment and public investment are at an all-time low in the State, leading to major problems with regard to jobs. The CRO was meant to be the knight in shining armour to crack the whip...

Other Questions: Seed Capital Scheme Payments (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: There are healthy functioning companies for which an element of their business would be toxic debt. That toxic debt is dragging down the functioning element of the business and is preventing the business from investing in the future if the business is lucky enough to survive and is stopping it from creating jobs. However, in other cases it is putting businesses out of business. Tomorrow I...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to add my voice to the point indicated by Deputy Calleary. Every year, at the end of the year, there appears to be a rush of legislation through the last few weeks of the session. It makes it difficult for proper oversight of the legislation. In most cases, Members experience the delivery to them of legislation in a reasonable manner. I am unsure what situation arose in this case...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Amendment No. 13 is a compromise amendment, the purpose of which is to address the concerns of migrant workers and enable them to work if they decide to take an action where a permit has not been renewed. Having listened to the Minister's argument, it remains my view that it is necessary to specifically provide for a mechanism that allows persons to be sufficiently confident to proceed with...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 13:In page 7, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:"(2A) Where an employer referred to in section 2(1)(a) or, in the case of employment referred to in section 2(1)(b), a person referred to in section 2(1A)(a) or a contractor referred to in section 2(1A)(b) has not paid a foreign national to whom this section applies and where the foreign national institutes...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 14:In page 8, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:"(iii) an amount equal to that paid to regularised employees engaged in the same work in the same employment,or".

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 23:In page 9, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following:"(13A) A foreign national who has engaged in civil proceedings as referred to in this section may apply to the court for interim relief.".

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 28:In page 15, line 12, to delete "or civil partner," and substitute the following:", civil partner, or the former spouse or civil partner where a separation has occurred during the period of employment in the State".This is to achieve equity and address the difficulty faced by individuals who have been working in Ireland and who have had to separate through no fault of...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 29:In page 15, line 12, to delete "referred to in section 3C(2)" and substitute "in respect of the purpose referred to in paragraph (a)".

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 30:In page 16, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:"(v) who has entered into civil proceedings as referred in section 2B of the Act of 2003;".

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Amendment No. 40 deals with an issue we discussed on Committee Stage. The purpose of the amendment is to break the bondage element of the permit where a worker is tied to an employer. The Minister has stated that the purpose of the permit is to bring a foreign national into Ireland to fill an identified gap in a sector. It is not intended to benefit a particular employer directly. If a...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 40:In page 27, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“(c) in the sector specified in the application.”.”.

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 54:In page 53, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:"(6) Section 20 of the Act of 2006 is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (5):"(5A) The Minister may, on application made to him or her, waive the prescribed fee.".".There is a strong view that the fees relating to the process are inordinate. The Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 56:In page 58, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following:"(10) Where an employer has failed to provide a P45 or other relevant document to a foreign national to whom an employment permit in respect of the purpose referred to in section 3A(2)(a) has been granted further to a dismissal by reason of redundancy within the meaning of section 7(2) of the Act of 1967 the...

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Fifth Stage (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It might be more like a game of snakes and ladders than a game of chess. Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis na hoifigigh go léir sa Roinn a thug cabhair dúinn, go háirithe ar Chéim an Choiste. Bíonn deacrachtaí ann i gcónaí, ach b'fhéidir go raibh níos mó deacrachtaí i gceist sa chás seo. Is Bille uafásach...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Freedom of Information Requests (3 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a freedom of information request (details supplied). [28866/14]

Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach will be aware that Greyhound Recycling has decided unilaterally to cut the wages of its staff by 35%. The company has effectively locked its staff out of work. I am sure that like me the Taoiseach will find it unacceptable that this has happened, particularly considering that the workers and the representatives are fully engaged with the industrial relations mechanism.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I am speaking about the workplace relations Bill, which was supposed to be in place prior to the end of this term. Will the Taoiseach ensure that it is in place before the end of the next term? Despite that the workers and representatives are fully engaged with the industrial relations process the employer has thrashed their wages.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not working.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (8 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Student Universal Support Ireland has recently added the additional requirement of providing a copy of a passport with the multitude of other documentation provided by applicants including a PPS number, thereby adding an additional cost to parents. [29682/14]