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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (24 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 585. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, in tabular form, on the local authorities which require local authority housing applicants to provide documentation from land registries outside Ireland as evidence that they do not own property, and from what year each local authority has sought this particular form of documentation. [8099/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht an cur i láthair suimiúil. Bhí sé an-mhaith ar fad. Everybody agrees that we have a problem with low wages in this State but how we actually resolve the problem is the issue. We know that there is also a problem with underemployment. We have one of the highest proportions of low-paid employees in the EU and OECD...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some of the figures in Dr. Collins's presentation are quite startling, for example that the top two deciles earn over 50% of the direct income. Could Dr. Collins confirm another figure that is quite remarkable, that the top 20% of workers receive 25 times the share of the bottom 20%? The issue being discussed here is low pay; sometimes when the issue is discussed with IBEC or ISME...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The reality of the supply and demand of labour and the pricing of it means that the lower the price for labour, the more people will be employed. Therefore, if we reduced the minimum wage by half, we would have a higher demand for labour. However, if a person is working full time and cannot afford to pay his rent and feed his children, the State must fill that gap. In other words, we need...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: They are understaffed too.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 175. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the level of service of the North East Doctor on Call in the coming months. [8530/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Enterprise Statistics (3 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 148. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office currently records e-commerce sales of indigenous and foreign direct investment companies based here, or the leakage of e-commerce sales of companies outside the State by Irish consumers; and if not, in view of the increasing importance of e-commerce to Irish businesses, if the Central Statistics Office will ensure the valuable data...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Enterprise Statistics (3 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 149. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office currently records the use of zero-hour contracts by employers, and related data, as currently collected by the British Office of National Statistics. [9262/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (3 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 255. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to abolish zero hour contracts. [9284/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (3 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 595. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide detailed feedback on the reason an application from Lough Lene Gaels, Collinstown, County Westmeath, for funding under the sports capital fund was turned down. [8750/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Sometimes when we discuss these issues we nearly get lost in the human side, that is, that there are families who cannot afford to feed their children, heat their houses, clothe their children and get them ready for school. These are people who are working full-time. On a humanitarian level alone, there is a necessity to focus on the issue of low pay. We have an exceptionally uneven wage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree that the rate of unemployment is disastrously high at the moment and there is a lot of poverty associated with that. I agree with the witnesses that purchasing power is the key issue for everybody. NERI came before the committee and said that if people's purchasing power increased in other areas it would decrease pressure on the demand for the living wage. That is maybe one area of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: What are the incremental rates? I know Ms Callan does not want to say there should be an increase in the minimum wage at this stage, but would it be acceptable if in three years' time there were incremental rate increases?

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The money for water has to come from pockets one way or the other. It cannot be "magic-ed" up.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá téarnamh geilleagracht Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre agus Fhine Gael bunaithe ar phá íseal agus tearcfhostaíocht. Bhí deis ag an Aire na fadhbanna a bhaineann le JobBridge agus pá íseal a réitigh sa Bhille seo. Is trua é gur shéan sí an deis sin agus is léir go bhfuil sí ag leanúint bhóthar Thatcher agus...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (5 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of schemes that allow foreign investors achieve residency here; the criteria determining whether a foreign investor can gain residency; if she is reviewing this scheme; if there are any changes to be implemented in the future; and if she is seeking to change investment limits and value addition criteria in the future. [9718/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (5 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 245. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the chief executive officer of the Meath local enterprise office will be replaced. [9796/15]

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Triocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2013: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom ardmholadh a thabhairt do mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Seán Crowe, as an mBille iontach tábhachtach seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Is é cuspóir an Bhille ná ceist na neodrachta a chur os comhair muintir na hÉireann. Ní hé seo an chéad iarracht atá déanta ag Sinn Féin dul sa tóir ar an gcuspóir...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Collection (10 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding local property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10133/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá fáilte roimh an Aire agus a fhoireann. Fáiltím roimh an méid Gaeilge atá á labhairt aige inniu. Tá difríocht idir na huimhreacha maidir le poist nua a chruthaíodh sa tír seo agus figiúirí an Phríomh-Oifig Staidrimh. Dar leis an bPríomh-Oifig Staidrimh, cruthaíodh 69,300 post ó 2011 go dtí seo....