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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The Government's objective for full employment is 6.5% unemployment. Given that Iceland has an unemployment rate of 4% and it is 4% also in Germany, the question arises as to whether they are super full-employment countries. A rate of 6.5% does not seem like-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The previous response I had on the matter indicated that full employment was 6.5%.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I do not wish to get diverted into a discussion in that regard. We have lopsided development in this country at the moment. That has not happened by accident. In 2011 a total of 27% foreign direct investment went into the regions. Regional FDI investment was worse in 2012 and we have only seen slightly improved figures in recent years. In the third year of the Government's term of office...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: There is no doubt that there are examples that buck the trend in each of the regions trending generally in a negative fashion. We have to measure the trends in those areas to be able to create the proper policies and develop the resources to solve the problems. It is not a case of looking for the worst figure. Anyone with two ears on them who steps outside of the M50 into the rest of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The minority of jobs are outside Dublin.
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the measures in An Action Plan for Jobs 2015 dealing with small and medium enterprise and micro-enterprise access to public procurement of goods and services contracts are sufficiently ambitious to increase both sectors' share of these public contracts within the lifetime of the plan. [12097/15]
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Public procurement presents one of the biggest opportunities for SMEs in the State. An Action Plan for Jobs states the ambitions of the Government are merely to increase SME awareness and identify further measures to assist public sector procurement. In other words, in the Government's fourth year in office, its ambition is to look into the matter. I sat with a previous Minister...
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015 states with regard to public procurement and SMEs that its ambitions include increasing awareness and looking into further methods to improve it. The Minister of State has said €2.4 billion in public procurement was analysed and referred to expenditure of €8 billion. The truth of the matter is that the Office of Public Procurement simply does not...
- Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The enterprise agencies should be focusing on the key issue, that is, getting rid of blockages. There are tenders rolled up into massive tenders that preclude small businesses from competing. There are articles within contracts that state tendering companies must have a massive turnover and profit and be heavily insured. This also precludes small businesses. The State is measuring which...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: We want to see a proper water system, paid for by a progressive tax.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Pickpocketing.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Which is wiped out with the water charges.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Net of the cuts-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Tax cuts for the rich.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Pickpocketing
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Over to Australia.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Establishment (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he and his officials considered the independent report by a person (details supplied) entitled Low Pay: The Nation's Challenge and the Resolution Foundation Review of the Future of the National Minimum Wage: The Final Report, before concluding the draft heads of the low pay commission legislation. [12099/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures within the Action Plans for Jobs 2015 that will address the high levels of part-time and casual work which are now embedded in the structure of the labour market. [12095/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Grocery Industry Competition (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the final regulations for the grocery goods sector, as provided for under the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014, will be signed into law; and if his attention has been drawn to any current practices by large retailers that are unduly and unfairly burdening their suppliers. [12096/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector (26 Mar 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to act on the recommendations of the recent Retail Excellence Ireland and Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association report on building the all-island retail industry, North and South. [12098/15]