Results 421-440 of 16,285 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (16 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the waiting lists for persons wishing to avail of Youthreach centres which indicate the high demand for Youthreach courses; and his plans to provide €10 million in additional funding to provide an extra 500 places in the scheme. [34874/11]

Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Currently, 200,000 people in this State are working for wages of approximately €18,000 per annum and have been doing so for the past six months without a legislative floor to prevent downward pressure on their wages and the rates. We have been promised replacement legislation for the joint labour committees for the past number of months. Given that the passage of my legislation through...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (17 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his net projected employment gain from the capital and expenditure budget cuts year on year from 2012 to 2016 taking into account the recently announced medium term fiscal and infrastructure/capital statements. [35191/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of former Secretaries General in receipt of public sector pensions while currently employed in a public body and or State agency. [35185/11]

Economic Competitiveness (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail an assessment of the cost to our competitiveness and employment levels of the continued implementation of upward only rent agreements. [35939/11]

Economic Competitiveness (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Upward-only rents affect competitiveness and raise the costs for end-user consumers. There is also a cost in jobs for the State. Approximately 250,000 people work in the retail sector in the State and it is estimated that approximately 46,000 people have lost jobs in the retail sector in recent years. It is reckoned that approximately 50,000 jobs in the retail sector are in serious danger...

Economic Competitiveness (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I have done a little research on the Government's expenditure and my understanding is that, through the OPW, it pays approximately €98 million in rent a year. Approximately €55 million of the rent paid by the Government is paid on an upward-only basis. It is estimated that the current decrease in rent in the private sector is approximately 30% in the past three years. If the Government...

Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Cloud computing is based on the power of the networks in this State. Ireland is 79th in the world, or 24th out of the EU, for upload speeds and we are 49th in the world, or 23rd in the EU, for download speeds. It is estimated that an investment of €2.5 billion will be needed to bring our broadband services to the top of the table. Without this level of investment, the Minister of State's...

Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: They are from the IrelandOffline Quarterly Report.

Credit Guarantee Scheme (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: In the North of Ireland, Sinn Féin along with its partners through the programme for government made £50 million available in loans to small and medium-sized businesses. Would the Government not consider putting something like that in place straight away to deal with the problem?

Credit Guarantee Scheme (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Nobody is making that point.

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: While many words were used, the question was not answered. It would have been answered in four syllables, namely, 30,000, the number of jobs that would be created if an additional €3.1 billion per annum was available. For example, the Government could reinstate the sum of €750 million it took out and could make Ireland's broadband services the best in the world with the expenditure in...

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not know whether the Leas-Cheann Comhairle saw the RTE television programme, "Arrivals", last night. It provides an example of the generation that has been lost to the country owing to the choices being made by the Government to divert funds from capital expenditure to Anglo Irish Bank, etc.

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: My party believes in paying back sovereign debt. It is paying private debt with which we do not agree. Moreover, the European Investment Bank has been tasked with giving funds to states such as Ireland and the amount of money outlined in Sinn Féin's pre-budget submission is allowed for, given the level of the State's GDP. I have a single question pertaining to the funds taken from Tara...

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: They want the Government to force the administrators not to do this.

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Here we are, roughly eight months into the new Administration, and the situation is that 440,000 people are unemployed and 70,000 are emigrating annually. It is important that the lives of the individuals who are forced out of this country are understood, which was very well demonstrated in the RTE programme "Arrivals" last night. This situation is the result of the lack of focus on jobs....

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I mentioned the Bord Gáis contract because it is an example of a contract that will edge out small suppliers and one on which the Cabinet can have an effect. Will the Minister seek to change the policy direction in which that Bord Gáis contract is developed?

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I will share time with my colleagues. I will take eight minutes, with Deputy Stanley taking three minutes and Deputy Ó Caoláin taking approximately four minutes.

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: The protection and promotion of indigenous industry is key to economic growth and employment. Our local businesses, manufacturers, technology companies, services sectors and retailers are bearing the brunt of the economic downturn. The trading environment in the last number of years has been unparalleled and we are now facing into a further European recession. This extended period of...

Written Answers — Interest Rates: Interest Rates (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts he has made to ensure that reductions in the ECB interest rate are passed on to the end user in the business community. [36215/11]