Results 541-560 of 16,285 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Written Answers — Capital Investment Programme: Capital Investment Programme (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of jobs that would be created by an additional investment of â¬750 million in capital expenditure. [35938/11]
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 282: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to find an enterprise for a location (details supplied) in Ballivor, County Meath. [3387/12]
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 318: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the methods she will use to ensure that positions secured under the JobsBridge programme are suitable to the skill set and learning needs of each participant; the methods being used to ensure each position is being rolled out in a manner that ensures adherence to the participant's development plan; and the number of staff employed by...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 412: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will detail any reductions in the budget for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in 2012. [3591/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 413: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will detail savings in the administration costs of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to be realised in 2012. [3592/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 414: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reduction in Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland grants to home owners for 2012. [3593/12]
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 415: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reduction in the number of homes to be insulated in 2012 due to changes in the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland grant scheme. [3594/12]
- Written Answers — Household Charge: Household Charge (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 462: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria used by him to exempt estates from the household charge. [3994/12]
- Written Answers — Immigration Policy: Immigration Policy (24 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 526: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding investment opportunities here (details supplied). [3900/12]
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will establish an emergency enterprise task force within one of the enterprise development agencies in order that such a task force should be able to intervene in businesses that are in serious financial difficulty before they are forced to close and shed workers. [4335/12]
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: The Government's priority is not job creation. There were â¬20 million worth of new job creation ideas in the last budget but 150 times that amount is going into bailing out the banks. The Government's priority is the inverse of what the Minister says. Its priority is the opposite of job creation. The Government is prioritising the bailing out of banks. There is an avalanche of...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister reminds me of an estate agent who tries to sell a famine cottage as a rustic residence with character. The Government's policies are hollow. They are merely tinkering around the edges. The cost of each additional person on social welfare is â¬20,000. I have given the Minister an example of a business with which the Department and the enterprise agencies are not engaging....
- EU Funding (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the action taken by him to develop a scheme to draw down support from the EU Progress Micro Enterprise fund to support start up and small businesses. [4336/12]
- EU Funding (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: As the Ministers and Deputies on the other side of the House will be aware, a good chunk of the reason so many businesses and individuals are finding it so difficult is the credit system is frozen. The Government has announced a microfinance fund on a number of occasions, yet nothing has happened. The Minister of State indicated how the finance system would work, but the initial budget was...
- EU Funding (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: There are 180,000 micro-businesses in the country, some of which employ up to ten people. The European Investment Fund programme has been open for tenders on its website since last March. How much of the funding has the Government drawn down to date? This is a serious consideration and the failure to answer the question shows a deep disrespect for the 180,000 businesses mentioned, of which...
- EU Funding (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: How much of the fund has been drawn down to date?
- EU Funding (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: How much of the fund has been drawn down to date?
- EU Funding (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: From this fund?
- EU Funding (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Therefore, the answer is nothing, no money has been drawn down.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Could I give my time to Deputy Boyd Barrett to ask his supplementary question?