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Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The debate has been closed down in each committee.

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Statements (21 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: At the outset, I wish to correct some figures the Minister mentioned with regard to jobs. According to the Central Statistics Office, CSO, 120,000 jobs have been created in the State since 2011, not 135,000. In addition, during that time, the number of people in activation schemes has risen from 50,000 to 80,000 and, therefore, it is reasonable to believe a good part of the aforementioned...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (26 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 498. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the modelling works carried out to estimate the potential future demand for a rail line from Navan, County Meath to Dublin city; the inputs to this model in terms of population and so on; and the comparisons with other towns in the Greater Dublin Area. [2969/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Act 2014 (Section 1313) Regulations 2016: Motion (26 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned in his contribution that these companies were inadvertently omitted. However, the question of their not being included was raised when the Companies Bill was progressing through the Oireachtas process. I am curious as to the reason this issue was not addressed at that time. Are there likely to be other unregistered firms similarly omitted from this section? It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an finné as teacht anseo inniu agus as a chuid fianaise. I greatly welcome the evidence which the delegates have provided. One of my greatest fears with respect to the TTIP is the complete secrecy in which the process is being carried out and the lack of debate and information among the public in that regard. The European Commission has met about 600...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Discussion (26 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: The first point Senator Quinn makes is good in that the existence of two different standards and two different regulations within Europe and the United States meant that in the United States at least, there was a capture of the threat posed by thalidomide. The problem is there no longer will be those two different standards and regulatory regimes and, therefore, there no longer will be two...

Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Statements (28 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Guím gach rath ar an Teachta Rabbitte. I might not have agreed with him on everything in the last few years, but there is no doubt that he raised the level of oratory in this Chamber and brought much colour in his time. Gabhaim buíochas freisin le muintir an choiste baincéireachta mar gheall ar an méid oibre atá déanta acu le linn an imscrúdaithe. Obair...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (28 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the increase or decrease in the number of special needs assistants employed in the State since 2011. [3647/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (28 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the increase or decrease in the number of special needs assistants employed in County Meath from 2011 to the present. [3648/16]

Nomination of Taoiseach (10 Mar 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Ba mhaith liom gach rath a ghuí ort i do ról nua. Tá a fhios agam go mbeidh stádas iontach ag an nGaeilge faoi do chúram. Most people watching at home would be struck by the deep disconnect between the rhetoric of this Chamber and their own lives. The speakers from the former Government parties have spoken left...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: According to the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, 350 people die in this State as a result of overcrowded emergency departments. This means that, in the 40 days in which Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have refused to talk to each other, 35 people have died in this State in overcrowded emergency departments. These are not people coming to the end of their lives but people who are...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: However, the people have voted the way they have voted, and to bin the mandate that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have been given so soon after they have been given it would be a democratic disgrace-----

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a disgrace that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are faffing around with the mandate that they have been given while immediate crises wrack this country. The truth is that the two centre-right parties are holding this country to ransom. They are saying to people with housing and health problems and people who are unemployed and suffering poverty and injustice that they must wait while...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: -----while the mammoth tasks of this country remain to be solved.

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: One of the problems I have at the moment is that there are mandates here in this Chamber that could be acted upon. For example, in my constituency we have the problem of the North-South interconnector, which the previous Government sought to overground. Sinn Féin wants this interconnector undergrounded, and I understand Fianna Fáil and a certain amount of the Independents also...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: However, Alex White, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, is proceeding with the previous Government's policy on this issue. He does not have a mandate, yet those in this Chamber with a different mandate are being prevented from doing the job that they are meant to do, and that is happening right across the whole process. My colleague Deputy Gerry Adams...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the new tax liabilities such as Withholding Tax on the interest paid on individual loans, that Irish businesses will face due to the acquisition of distressed loan books by special purpose vehicles (SPVs); if he has brought these taxes to the attention of business; and if some form of relief will be provided for businesses that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 381. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the crime figures for County Meath and the number of gardaí in each of the Garda Síochána stations in County Meath from 2011 to 2015. [6124/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: North-South Interconnector (6 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 792. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will instruct EirGrid to withdraw the planning application for the proposed North-South interconnector (details supplied). [5957/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Properties Data (14 Apr 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of vacant State properties and land, including car parks not in use, owned by her Department or by bodies and agencies under the aegis of her Department by square footage, by location, by local authority, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6920/16]