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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (16 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Many happy returns.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the growing difficulties within the commercial property sector, the steps he is taking to ease cost competitive disadvantages and create jobs in construction industry. [48458/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: A crisis is developing in the property sector. House prices are rising in the Dublin area at a faster rate than during the craziest days of the Celtic tiger. This has the effect of denying many people homes, increasing pressure on wages and making the city of Dublin and surrounding areas very uncompetitive. Since the crash, access to commercial property is drying up within the State for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The housing market is a dysfunctional market currently. While it is not directly the responsibility of the Minister, thousands of jobs could potentially be created within the housing market if this dysfunction was resolved. I ask the Minister to focus on the area in the Action Plan for Jobs, which is meant to be a cross-departmental plan. Vacancy rates for commercial property are falling....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to refer to four issues briefly. Improved access to finance for developers locally is important to ensure they can build facilities to take the pressure off the Government. NAMA is not resolving its processes properly at the moment. The planning regime in the State is not suitable for current needs, nor is the supply chain within the construction industry suited to addressing the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I am talking about workers in the construction industry. That side of the whole process is in chaos at the moment. As the Minister is aware, the instability arose from the Supreme Court decision in 2013 on registered employment agreements, REAs. Currently, there are widespread abuses within the construction industry in terms of the National Minimum Wage Act, relevant contracts tax, RCT,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons attending the part-time job incentive in September 2014. [48512/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when rent allowance thresholds in County Meath will be brought in line with rental market values in the country; and the action she will take to ensure no person or family will be left homeless over Christmas. [48630/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his proposed 20-point action plan to tackle emergency and short-term homelessness will be extended to County Meath; the number of vacant properties in the County Meath area that will be brought back into immediate use; and the number of additional emergency beds that will be provided in County Meath by Christmas....

Appropriation Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: As the Minister of State described it, the Appropriation Bill 2014 is necessary to give effect to the constitutional requirement to validate payments before the end of the calendar year, and thereby to give statutory authority for the amounts voted by the Dáil for the original Estimates, Revised Estimates and Supplementary Estimates. It also provides for the capital carryover from one...

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: There have been only 43,000 new jobs since this Government took office. I got the figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is above the EU average.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is another unfulfilled promise.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: She did not answer. This is Leaders' Questions and answers.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to alter the tax registration process in the construction industry from employer registration to employee-subcontractor registration. [48847/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships that have been created within the construction industry for each of the past ten years by sector; the plans she has to create sufficient apprenticeships to meet the demand in the sector for qualified skilled craft workers. [48845/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Construction Industry Register Ireland (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the creation of a register of construction employees' qualifications. [48846/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date by which the scope section of her Department plan to complete its investigation into allegations regarding the Kishoge site in Lucan, County Dublin. [49619/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a profitable company (details supplied) in County Meath has not provided for its employees’ pension scheme; and if she will amend legislation to place an obligation on profitable employers to fulfil pension related commitments to their employees. [49722/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 75. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will meet with a representative group of the Tara Mine pensioners to discuss proposed cuts to payments arising from the Social Welfare and Pension Act 2014. [1386/15]