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European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Perhaps that can be extended because I have been needlessly interrupted by the Acting Chairman. The European Council called on the EU to make every effort to successfully conclude TTIP negotiations in 2015. The rush to complete this agreement is unprecedented. A massive tide of popular opinion is turning against TTIP across Europe. Is that why the European Council called for the EU to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foráim Pleanála Fiontar (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 313. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation cad iad na fóraim atá ar fáil faoi scáth na Roinne Post, Fiontar agus Nuálaíochta chun deis a thabhairt d’eagraíochtaí atá ionadaíoch d’fhiontair a gcuid smaointe a chur in iúl don rialtas. [11153/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht a chur i láthair. We have heard the Minister state a number of times that he is seeking to take politics out of the setting of the low pay commission. Given that poverty, inequality and low wages are currently entrenched in the economy, many would say that the Labour Party has been successful in taking politics out of its time in government....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: -----in the short term. He also said it is to look at general issues associated with low pay. Again, a Minister with a political direction should be giving direction to these individuals with regard to exactly what they should be examining. The problem I have is that it appears we are inventing a typewriter here, while Britain is already looking at inventing an iPad. What I mean is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State has made a number of points. It is not that we are cynical with regard to the low pay commission. We are ambitious for it but we do not believe there is the necessary level of ambition in terms of an economy dealing with entrenched poverty. In Britain, and this was the case I put to the Minister of State, they have started to appraise the effectiveness of their low...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: On the zero hour contracts issue, we have the same policy in the North as we have in the South. Will the Minister of State ask the Central Statistics Office to record the number of zero hour contracts in function in the National Quarterly Household Survey because we could then have a greater insight into zero hour contracts and their impact in the economy? The questions remain. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The CSO collects that information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis na toscairí as ucht a gcuid cur i láthair. Bhí siad an-suimiúil ar fad. How entrenched is low pay? Sometimes, people think we have always had low pay and the poor and things are really no different in this generation than they were in previous generations. Is 2015 radically different from ten or 20 years ago with regard to income inequality?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the delegates for their presentations. Before their presentations, we heard presentations by employee representatives. Many of them were decent individuals who explained very difficult situations for employees. Our job is to square the circle. I do not know who the squares and circles are here, and I will not say. It is a major and difficult challenge for the Oireachtas. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is only one representative organisation in favour of zero-hour contracts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: ISME is not against them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: We will have that discussion. I just wanted to get a brief understanding of where the representative groups stand on the issue. Mr. Murphy's member organisations are experiencing a whole ecosystem of costs, and wages are one aspect. I always feel wages are the last place we should seek cost reductions. Where do wages stand in his priority of costs? Would parity of USC for self-employed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The last question I have is to Ms Maeve McElwee. The 4.7% of the working population who are on the minimum wage is a cost element regarding business. But the 4.7% of the population who are on the very top wages is equally a cost. Given that both costs should be a challenge equally to the people you represent, what should be done with the wages at the top, the 4.7%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland has a very steep incomes gradient. A steep incomes gradient is not necessarily good for a cohesive society. We are here to focus on wages as a cost of doing business. The committee is focussing on the 4.7% at the bottom. I am just wondering why there is no attention given to the 4.7% at the top.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of the estimated 1.3 million jobs that will be lost to worker displacement arising from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership that will be Irish small and medium-sized enterprise jobs. [12180/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The European Commission and the Government have stated over and over again that the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, TTIP, will be advantageous to small and medium sized enterprises, SMEs. Very little evidence of the exact benefits of TTIP have been provided to date. The Minister has said that businesses will enjoy increased market share, but we have heard very little about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: A study into the first 12 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement found that more than 1 million jobs were lost in the US during that period, with millions of other people suffering a significant decline in wages and conditions. As assessment by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, which was financed by the European Commission, found that TTIP is likely to result in prolonged...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The displacement of 1.3 million jobs in Europe will be an economic shock to 1.3 million families. The Minister has given information on a global scale about the objectives of TTIP with regard to increased trade and business levels, etc. All we are seeking is the detail. There is pressure at the moment for TTIP to be delivered very quickly. We are asking the Government to set out its stall...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department has provided any additional investment for the development of regional enterprise strategies framework; the job creation and investment targets for each of the eight strategic planning areas; the way the strategies for the west and south west will address the fall in employment in both regions, and the stagnation of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland's economic recovery, slow as it is, is almost exclusively located in Dublin and its hinterland while stagnation and decline persist in other parts of the country. The conclusions of the Nevin Economic Research Institute have been discussed. Its last quarterly bulletin basically stated that 94% of the 29,000 new jobs created in the economy last year were in the greater Dublin area....