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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I refer to the budget for Enterprise Ireland. In June the Department submitted a detailed response to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the comprehensive review of capital expenditure process, which that Department is currently reviewing. When will the Minister publish his Department's submission? The Department has experienced a decrease in its budgets over the past...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: The system of local enterprise offices has been one of the major planks of the Minister's enterprise policy for the past three years. I wish the staff of the various offices well in their efforts. However, there is a fear among the enterprise community that the relationship between the LEOs and the local authorities, on the one hand, and the relationship between the LEOs and Enterprise...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I ask that the Chairman bear with me for a minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: In the course of a year most elected representatives will have somebody contact him or her about having applied for a grant, giving out that they could not get a grant and the difficulties they had in accessing this, that and the other. What is the likelihood of the full drawdown of Enterprise Ireland and SFI grants this year? Is it likely that all the funding for the grants will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I apologise and do not want to hold up the meeting, but I have a quick question pertaining to Programme B before we move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: My question refers to research and development tax credits. Are there any figures available which will help us to understand the impact such credits have had on expenditure, research and jobs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Such detailed information would be very interesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: On the ability of the Competition Authority to fulfil its responsibilities, will sufficient funding be available to allow the authority to process all requests made to it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: The new body will have ten new staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: What are the financial implications for the Department of the Workplace Relations Bill?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I have one question that does not relate to that specific area but relates to an issue on which the Minister may be able to help us. May I pose the question now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: We had a strong discussion in this committee on the EU-Colombia free trade agreement. I think a letter was sent from this committee to the Minister requesting a debate on the floor of the Dáil on whether the State supports the free trade agreement. There has to be a vote in the Dáil on whether the State supports the free trade agreement. Has there been a positive response to that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: As the Minister is probably aware the free trade agreement with Colombia is very contentious. It is not the average free trade agreement, if there is such a thing. We had a cross-party delegation meeting with Justice for Colombia, Trócaire and a large number of highly respected NGOs who are actively campaigning for the Government not to proceed with the free trade agreement in its...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that. The initial statement was that the joint committee had sent a letter to the Minister asking for a Dáil debate on the issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It is our responsibility, as Oireachtas Members, to represent the Irish view. When human rights lawyers come to the Oireachtas such as Christian Aid Ireland, Trócaire, Latin America Solidarity Centre, Justice for Colombia-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: The committee made a decision to request a debate in the Dáil. Our work on that issue is probably finished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Yes, but we are waiting for the response.
- Other Questions: Retail Sector (17 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: 9. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to stem the growing commercial decay in town centres around the State. [30184/14]
- Other Questions: Retail Sector (17 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Guím gach rath ar an Aire agus ar an Aire Stáit. Comhghairdeas leo ar a bpostanna nua. I hope the solutions the Minister talks about are not horizon solutions and that we will see them in the future. The housing crisis is one of the biggest crises in the State. The solutions need to be timescaled to the crisis. The crisis is now and the solutions have to be implemented now. ...