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Industrial Relations (Blacklists) Bill 2015: First Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make it unlawful to compile, use, sell or supply blacklists containing details of people who are, or have been, trade union members or who are taking part, or have taken part, in trade union activities or an industrial action where such blacklists may be used by employers to discriminate in relation to recruitment or the...

Industrial Relations (Blacklists) Bill 2015: First Stage (16 Dec 2015)

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

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (16 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the projects in which the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has invested, in tabular form. [45588/15]

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If they manage to get in.

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: In the five years I have been in the Dáil, it has always struck me as interesting that the Dáil staggers from crisis to crisis. Members in the Chamber get het up and focused on a major crisis, and then they move on to the next crisis in a few weeks. As a result, the initial crisis never receives the political will, effort or energy it needs to be fixed. I reference this to a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of new claims she has approved and the percentages for the number of refusals based on financial grounds under the disability allowance scheme in each year since 2011 to date. [46560/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Remuneration (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual salaries of Teachtaí Dála, Senators, an Taoiseach, Ministers, Minister of State attending Cabinet and Ministers of State, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46622/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services Staff (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to provide a breakdown of the current staffing of Workplace Relations Commission inspector services in tabular form. [46795/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State organisations that have a North-South enterprise development remit by their activities and by the budgets that have been allocated and spent in this work in the past five years. [1030/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of firms from the North that have used each of the services offered to them in the Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland agreement of January 2007 by year. [1031/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 859. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to detail all North-South planning, investment and development that currently exists or is planned for regarding water and waste water facilities. [46913/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 861. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the 2011 consultation document on spatial strategies on the island of Ireland being prepared by his Department and the Department of Regional Development in the North has been concluded; and if so, what aspects of the spatial strategy have been delivered. [1032/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance in absolute terms, and as a percentage of the predicted available fiscal space, the cost of abolishing the universal social charge within the next five years; the gain for a person earning €185,000 of such an abolition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1515/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Guím gach rath ar an Aire tar éis a chóir leighis. Is maith an rud é go bhfuil cuma breá folláin air arís. There is great pressure on the infrastructure of this State and on our public services. There is also great pressure on low and middle income earners. However, there is a dangerous habit in this State of governments shifting the tax base from...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister said there was a fiscal space of roughly €12 billion. Is that over five years?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. That is obviously a higher estimate than would have been in discourse previously, which was €8 billion over the next five years. However, the key issue is the effect that cutting USC will have. There is no doubt that workers need a break. They have suffered massively over the last number of years and we need to ensure that they have money restored to their pockets. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Someone on the median wage - and we must remember that half the population earn €28,000 or less - would receive €860 back. Given those major disparities in the amounts that would be returned, is it not the case that the abolition of the USC is an unfair way to redistribute some of the benefits in the State?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: I sense that there may be a row-back in terms of Government policy, because the Taoiseach was advocating a €4 billion USC return to the State over the next five years. Whether it is 50% of the fiscal space returned in USC or one third, as the Minister says today, that has to be contrasted with the level of investment in the State. In the spring statement, the Minister said that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: It also means that other issues, such as the creaking M50 that becomes chock-a-block after one accident, will not be resolved. It means that infrastructural projects like the Navan to Dublin rail line will not be built. How is it that we will try to achieve European levels of investment in public services and infrastructure on what is an American tax base?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: So investment will increase for the time being.