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- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Prices (11 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he is taking to tackle increasing energy costs which are undermining the viability of small and medium-sized businesses in the retail sector. [47119/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or an official from his Department will meet a person (details supplied) who has been refused a medical certificate for disabled drivers. [48332/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates Applications (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: 512. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who failed the application for the primary medical certificate for each of the past ten years. [48364/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leo as ucht an cur i láthair. I, too, acknowledge the work of the Department in that period of time and also the shocking reduction in the level of resources that were made available. We are coming from the perspective that the Garda was actively seeking the statement from Mr. Ryan. There was a view that there was nothing new in the document so therefore its...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It would have required legal advice to send it to the Garda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Why would the legal advice not have been forthcoming normally anyway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: In December, the initial work was started and we realised it will take quite a bit of time to do it properly. The Department has not had the time to deliver on it because of other issues. To be able to make a decision on the import of a document, it could only happen after it has been fully researched in order to understand if there is nothing new in it. From my perspective, a decision...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Resources are a large constituent element of when things can happen, with the other element being prioritisation. It is the responsibility of the management of a Department, which usually comes down to the Minister at some stage. Why was this resource not prioritised, given that we are talking about a report on tax evasion and the damage that would be done to the resources of the State? ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: People watching this now will be aware that a civil servant was involved in investigating a number of very serious allegations, created a witness statement and provided that witness statement to the Department. Under the Minister's management, the Department seems to have decided before the document was researched that there was nothing in it worth delivering and that it did not deserve the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: But Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: But Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: We have a back and forth here, a Chathaoirligh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Through the Cathaoirleach, a Aire, it is clear there was a decision to deprioritise it. There was a decision not to prioritise it because if there had been a decision to prioritise it, it would happened in a shorter time such as within four months or six months. We know it was not complete until 2014 at some stage. That was a decision. For it not to have been processed meant there was a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I have about 30 seconds left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It is a very short question and it could be answered by "yes" or "no".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I have 30 seconds left of the ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It is. We have just been told that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It happened a couple-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Our responsibility is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Given that it took such an inordinate length of time to process that particular file, has anything changed? If it was not a deprioritisation, but simply the way the system works, given the pressure it is under, what confidence can the Minister give citizens that if another whistleblower delivered such a report to the Department, it would not take another two years for it to be delivered to...