Results 3,001-3,020 of 16,285 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 416. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations; if he has sought the exclusion of public services from the free trade agreement investor-state dispute settlements, ISDS, mechanism; and if he will call for the full exclusion of ISDSs from the agreement. [34412/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 418. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the State's right to regulate is protected in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership free trade agreement; and if so, if he will illustrate the way. [34414/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 417. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of meetings he has held with civil society groups and the number of meetings with corporations, lobbyists and other business representative groups regarding the transatlantic trade and investment partnership free trade agreement. [34413/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 419. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason he supports the inclusion of investor-state dispute settlements in free trade agreements signed up to by Ireland or the EU. [34415/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 420. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of jobs created here directly as a result of each of the EU free trade agreements to which the State has signed up. [34416/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 429. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the negotiations between Canada and the EU on a comprehensive economic and trade agreement, CETA, are almost complete; if he has raised any concerns about including investor state dispute settlements, ISDS, provisions in the agreement; if his attention has been drawn to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Early Child Care Education (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1092. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to discontinue the Health Service Executive's pre-school assistance subsidy to support children with Down syndrome and other disabilities from 2015. [34418/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1093. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide, in tabular form, the annual number of discretionary medical cards and discretionary general practitioner cards revoked on review between 1 July 2011 and 31 May 2014. [34425/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1094. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide in tabular form the number of discretionary medical cards and discretionary general practitioner cards reinstated in June, July and August 2014. [34426/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken over the summer recess to ensure the human rights of a person (details supplied) have been upheld; when the Irish Consulate in Egypt last visited the person; and the actions that have been taken to ensure the person has access to their legal representatives and medical care. [34417/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (17 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 1768. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that over 100 qualified Irish language translators on the Séala State Panel of Qualified Translators received a brief e-mail from National University of Ireland Galway on behalf of Foras na Gaeilge informing them of the cancellation of their séala if received before 2013; if...

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Cut your wages for a start.

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Turn around.

Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: What are water and property charges?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I will. First, I welcome any improvement that has happened in the figures. However, one should be able to be critical of the issues that still are not right within the economy. In recent years, a large amount of pent-up investment has come to the fore and has found itself in the creation of some of these jobs. In addition, the export figures that were weak in 2013 have strengthened this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: However, since the Government has come to power, 40,000 new jobs have been created and only 5,000 new jobs have been created in the first six months of this year. The Minister of State spoke about the reduction in the percentage of people unemployed. Given that six times more people have emigrated since it came into office than actually found a new job in this State-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: In what way can the Government rebalance these figures to ensure these statistics are not heavily weighed and that the engine of change with regard to the employment figures is not skewed towards emigration?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: May I ask a further question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Come dance with me.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (23 Sep 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the current under 25s jobseeker's payment; and her views that €100 is sufficient to provide for the basic needs of a young person living alone and without work. [35539/14]