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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (15 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the mis-selling of payment protection insurance by Permanent TSB to a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [39489/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (15 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will arrange a meeting with the Industrial Development Agency-Enterprise Ireland and a company (details supplied) in County Meath to see if jobs may be saved; if he will ensure the remaining 60 jobs are secured into the future and to ensure that a proper redundancy package is put in place for the workers currently facing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Workplace Relations Bill will provide protections for workers employed by subcontractors engaged in exploitative work practices. [39379/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Guím gach rath ar na hAirí ar fad agus ar an bhfoireann nua. I tabled this question to determine whether the forthcoming workplace relations Bill will provide protection to workers, especially those employed by subcontractors engaged in exploitative work practices. In that context, I want to make particular reference to the ongoing publicly funded Kishoge Community College...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: As the Minister of State knows, the workers at the Kishoge Community College site have effectively been locked out of their place of employment because a subcontractor has demanded that they register as self-employed and accept excessively low rates of pay. Some of the rates we have heard of are less than €5 per hour or €20 per day. To be blunt, the Government's response so...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that the Minister of State is working on particular projects and I am trying to ascertain whether those projects will close off all possibility of this type of exploitation in the future. We have had a collapse in the construction industry and that collapse has led to an overabundance of skilled construction workers who are unemployed and claiming social welfare. As a result,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been nearly two months since the Revenue Commissioners were out there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total level of new credit facilities created for enterprises in the past four years and the draw-down to date. [39085/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I cannot believe we are still talking about the issue of credit, given that we are three and a half years into the life of this Administration. One in four SMEs is in arrears for more than 90 days. The total loan balance in arrears is at 41%, which is a colossal break on the development of the economy and people's lives. Despite the contortions of the Government in the past few years, we...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: One can make hundreds of billion of euro available to the economy, but unless it is accessible to businesses, in practice, it will not find its way into the bloodstream of the economy. I refer to the ISME credit survey carried out in September. The figure for delays in making bank decisions on applications was at 21%. Some 18% of initial bank decisions were made within one week, which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a massive disconnect between the size of the problem, the ambition of the Government and the delivery of the Government. The Government's delivery is nowhere near its ambition, which in turn is nowhere near the actual problem itself. We heard a number of SME proposals in the budget. They are resuscitations of proposals the Government has previously made but are not working. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Availability (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: They are available but they are not accessible.

Other Questions: Military Exports (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to continue issuing licences for the export of military list items from Ireland to Israel. [39082/14]

Other Questions: Military Exports (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: This question relates to the issuing of licences for the export of military list items from Ireland to Israel. I do not doubt that many of the items in question were used by Israel in the most offensive and horrific way when over 2,150 citizens were killed and more than 10,000 injured in Gaza. Deputies on this side of the House are trying to find out how the Government can stand over the...

Other Questions: Military Exports (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Every time we raise this question, the Minister sticks to the line that military export licence applications "are carefully assessed ... having regard to the end use and the end user and against well-established criteria". He always tells us that "such applications are subject to rigorous scrutiny and are considered in the light of ... the 1998 EU code of conduct on arms exports". He also...

Other Questions: Military Exports (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I am saying it is wrong.

Other Questions: Military Exports (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I remind the Minister that Ban Ki-moon has said the destruction of Gaza was "beyond description". The physical effect of Israel's attack on Gaza is beyond description. It is impossible to give it words, but I will make an effort. A total of 2,152 people were killed and more than 10,000 were injured during the 51-day war against Gaza. Families were killed in the most barbaric...

Other Questions: Military Exports (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: How can any fair system export these items to Israel?

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: That was not the question.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is less than 10% of the housing stock.