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Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost per job created by the Industrial Development Agency in County Tipperary for each year since 2007. [6319/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the grants awarded by the Industrial Development Agency in County Tipperary for 2010; and the number of jobs created or maintained by each grant. [6320/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 215: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland jobs that were provided and supported in each of the 26 counties for the past five years by the Enterprise Ireland, the county enterprise boards and Science Foundation Ireland. [6442/12]

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the grants made by Enterprise Ireland in each of the 26 counties for the past five years. [6443/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the grants made by county enterprise boards in each of the 26 counties for the past five years. [6444/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the grants made by Science Foundation Ireland in each of the 26 counties for the past five years. [6445/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 334: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff within local government seeking to avail of the early retirement scheme by their local authority and grade. [6670/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 520: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the 3,500 staff seeking to avail of the early retirement scheme, by grade and location. [6659/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of medical consultants, their speciality and location, seeking to avail of the early retirement scheme. [6660/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 522: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of nursing staff, their grade, speciality and location, seeking to avail of the early retirement scheme. [6661/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 523: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of medical scientists, their grade, speciality and location, seeking to avail of the early retirement scheme. [6662/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 524: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of administration staff, their grade, speciality and location, seeking to avail of the early retirement scheme. [6663/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (7 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 525: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of staff, by grade and speciality, in Navan hospital, County Meath, seeking to avail of the early retirement scheme. [6664/12]

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Competition is a critical and central issue as regards the ability of the State to grow business in the future. Unfortunately, the Government and the troika have always focused on wages when seeking to develop competitive advantage. The State is replete with issues of competitiveness that could be resolved, for instance, the situation of upward-only rents which is putting small businesses...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand the Minister said it is not in the Government's interests to oversee the work of the Competition Authority. It would be in its interests to ensure that no State agency is paying twice the amount for concrete in this State than is the case in other states. If the budget expenditure is being wasted on artificially high prices for concrete, for example, surely it is in the...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Could the Minister of State respond to the question on the doubling of the price of concrete to the Government?

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is paying twice the price.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is expending money. Therefore, it should seek to have a fair price. Currently, the price is double what it is elsewhere.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: If the Government is paying the bills, it has a direct function.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report Stage (8 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Competition is independent. It is independent of resources, which is the core problem. Until such time as the Government puts resources into the Competition Authority, it will not be able to do its job. It is a nonsense for the Minister of State to say that because we are in receivership we cannot put money into areas like this. A cost benefit analysis of all investments is undertaken....