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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Application (11 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected cost to the Exchequer in 2015 for reducing the rate of universal social charge on income over €100,000 to 8% for the self-employed. [6301/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Minimum Wage (11 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the projected increase in tax revenue in 2015 if the national minimum wage was increased to €9.65; to €10.65; and to €11.45. [6302/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the socioeconomic backgrounds of persons supported by Enterprise Ireland; and the actions being utilised to ensure that persons from lower income brackets are being helped to set up new businesses. [6345/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is researching the experience of women in enterprise. We are also investigating the response of State organisations to women in enterprise. People from low or low-to-middle income backgrounds also have difficulties with regard to enterprise. What supports is the Government providing to ensure that this sector of society has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the Minister of State's answer. In fairness, he has indicated a number of actions that are being used to help people who have been unemployed or who have had difficulties obtaining finance. Many sectors have experienced unemployment and difficulty in obtaining finance and, as such, it is not the fact that people's immediate financial experience might place them in the low-paid...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: While I appreciate what the Minister of State has said, the first thing we need to do is to measure exactly what is happening within the system. If one cannot measure, one cannot manage. If we do not have the statistics to identify exactly the incidence of success and failure, it is very hard to put things in place. There is a seeding ground for enterprise which involves those who are the...

Other Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of each enterprise credit facility that has been created by this Government; their respective funding; job creation targets; and actual performance. [5844/15]

Other Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes. I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Other Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the time. I appreciate it. The debt that is experienced by enterprise in the State and the access to finance still form one of the major impediments to growth. It is the brake on growth in a significant section of enterprise. Right through the four years, this has been an issue, and most of the initiatives that the Government has taken have...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Companies Act 2014 to hold a company officer or officers acting on behalf of a corporate body personally liable where a breach of employment law is committed.I will outline briefly the purpose of the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2015, which amends section 224 of the Companies Act 2014. In short, this Bill provides...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the current local enterprise offices operating with a lower staff level than the past year, to include the county and the decrease in staff. [5845/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he plans to pursue to address the high rate of underemployment here. [5848/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action he is taking to address the decline in employment in the west and south-west regions. [5847/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide his Department’s priorities presented at the recent eighth round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. [5846/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Data (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details on where Ireland stands in comparison with our European counterparts, with regards to export levels of indigenous small and medium enterprises; and his plans to improve our figures. [6346/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 237. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of workers on temporary contracts in each local authority. [6401/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the displacement of workers in local authorities, where participants have been recruited under the Gateway scheme, in place of renewing rolling contracts for temporary workers . [6402/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of whole-time equivalent staff recruited in 2014, in each of the local authorities. [6403/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (12 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that local authority employment contracts now attach a clause that prohibits workers from contacting elected representatives, regarding any staffing related manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6404/15]