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Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Why then the investigation of the Ombudsman?

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister give those to us?

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister give access to these?

Other Questions: Departmental Communications (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister has not answered the question. Will he give access to us?

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Sinn Féin supports the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2015, which seeks to provide for the commissioned rank of Vice Admiral in the Defence Forces. The rank of Vice Admiral is the naval equivalent of the Army rank of Lieutenant General, a rank whose holder traditionally has assumed the role of Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces. The Government has brought forward this Bill to ensure Rear...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce legislation to prohibit the practice of trade union representative blacklisting by employers. [28667/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Advisory Group on Small Business Recommendations (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he consulted with his Department's Advisory Group on Small Business on the impact of attachment orders on small and micro-businesses. [28665/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Controls (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if human rights criteria have been considered when granting export licences for military list products to Israel in the past ten years; if he will confirm that the Israeli Defence Forces are the end user of military list products exported to Israel; and if, on any of these occasions, a licence was refused due to the breaching by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This has been very interesting. In fact, it is a breath of fresh air to hear the two analyses, especially from the point of view of Leinster House. I gather the witnesses are saying that the Irish Government's position on debt write-down in the Greek case does not have a logical economic basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is there any economic school that believes this is fixable without debt write-down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The interest holiday is meant to be part of this. Did Ireland ever achieve an interest holiday in its negotiations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The euro has been a disaster for half the length of its existence. One of the great political taboos is to question the euro in any way. Obviously, we have lost exchange rate and interest rate tools. As Professor Barry has mentioned, we have probably returned to a fixed exchange rate system that could come under speculative pressures. Is there a body of economists who are looking at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Perhaps Mr. McCarthy might give his view on whether this could be done in a structured manner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It was still the rouble.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The eurozone is built such that there are major productivity differences between countries at the periphery and the core. Money is obviously generated by those at the core. As those at the core need somewhere to deliver the money, credit is created to be accessed by those at the periphery. The inherent imbalance within the system will repeat itself because, as Mr. McCarthy stated, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It could also be a question of the transfer mechanism whereby funds could be transferred to those regions over time. The United States has such a mechanism. Politically, that is not attractive to Germany.

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2015: First Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for banded hour contracts, the right for a worker to request increased hours and a corresponding obligation on an employer to consider such a request, to permit refusal only on objectively justified grounds and an obligation on employers to provide information to workers on the overall working hours available in the...

Banded Hours Contract Bill 2015: First Stage (16 Jul 2015)

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

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Nílimid chun dul in aghaidh na leasuithe seo ar chor ar bith. Tá géarchéim ag titim amach ag an móimint san earnáil tógála agus in earnálacha eile sa tír seo agus caithfimid dul ar aghaidh leis an mBille agus na leasuithe seo chomh luath agus is féidir.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: From the Seanad (16 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas le foireann an Aire sa Roinn maidir leis an méid oibre atá déanta acu sa Bhille seo. Tá céim chun tosaigh déanta ag an Rialtas anseo. Bhí easpa struchtúir ann ó thaobh na hoibrithe sna hearnálacha sin agus le linn trí no ceithre bhliain anuas tá titim le feiceáil ina dtuarastal agus sna conditions...