Results 721-740 of 16,278 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: In many cases, local authorities have been orientated against enterprise. Given the seriousness of the jobs crisis, which cannot be underlined enough, what resources will the Government put in place to reorient local authorities to ensure they have an enterprise culture? An enterprise culture will not be created overnight or in a year. Local entrepreneurs and small businesses see local...

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: It is very important that this is done properly and that the necessary change in culture happens in local authorities. What will the Minister do to achieve that?

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned that Enterprise Ireland will have a significant part in directing this process. The fears of Deputies is that regionalisation of administration often leads to uneven delivery of service. For example, Kildare gets nine times as much investment from the IDA as Meath. My view is that this is because it is delivered on a regional basis. If the driving of the new...

County Enterprise Boards (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: What about incubation centres?

Trade Missions (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Can the Minister tell the House how much is being spent on promoting indigenous Irish exports, and how it compares to making FDI attractive in Ireland?

Redundancy Payments (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Currently, a total of 29,000 people are awaiting their statutory redundancy claims. That is an incredible figure. People are also waiting ten months to get minimum pay to which they are entitled from businesses that have been wound up. Has the Minister spoken to the Minister for Social Protection to ensure the issue is resolved for those individuals, many of whom are suffering greatly from...

Irish Language (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The development of the gaelscoileanna sector has been one of the few positives in terms of the Irish language, even though we usually hear negative stories about the Irish language. Some 30,000 children attend gaelscoileanna, representing approximately 5% of the child population. According to a Foras na Gaeilge study, approximately 25% of parents would send their children to gaelscoileanna...

Irish Language (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has to start recognising rights in regard to the Irish language. The fact that two new Irish schools will open in September reveals the contrast between the Government's actions and the level of demand that exists. Other European countries have managed to meet this target. In Wales, 23% of children attend all-Welsh schools, up from 18% ten years ago. In the 1980s only 5% of...

Irish Language (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: There are not enough places to meet demand.

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: We have seen four years of family and community-breaking austerity, a contracting economy, stagnant demand, forced emigration, sky high unemployment and reducing tax receipts. One would imagine that serious consideration would be given to a change in policy. Evidently not. Instead, the new Government already faces a contracting economy, which makes a fantasy of the budgetary projections...

State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: We have the disgusting spectacle of Fine Gael and Labour cashing in hard-earned and profitable family jewels at the pawnbrokers to pay down Anglo Irish Bank and other private banking debt. I welcome the fact that the coming referendum will allow people the opportunity to reject these policies and to chart a new economic course for the country.

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 25: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs to be created per year to achieve a net increase of 100,000 by 2016 as outlined in the action plan for jobs. [11308/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if additional revenue or capital moneys will be made available to his Department to implement the recommendations of the action plan for jobs. [11309/12]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a matter in respect of a school (details supplied). [11824/12]

Written Answers — Foreign Direct Investment: Foreign Direct Investment (29 Feb 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the top ten Irish exporters; the proportion their exports make up of total Irish exports; and the steps he is taking to rebalance jobs creation and economic growth towards sustainable indigenous small and medium enterprises as opposed to the over-reliance on FDI. [11688/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (1 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the way her review of community employment is progressing; and if she is concerned that the shortening of the duration of CE announced in Pathways to Work will adversely impact on the quality and level of training qualifications that can be delivered to CE participants. [11870/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the rules of eligibility for activation programmes that often required the applicant to have spent one year on jobseeker's allowance to make them accessible to groups that traditionally experience greater difficulty accessing the workforce for example for persons coming off a period spent on carer's allowance and for...

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (1 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the early childhood care and education scheme and a school place in respect of a child (details supplied); and if she will resolve the capacity issue and the regulations in the school before its too late. [11929/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (1 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the cost breakdown of the media launch of the action plan for jobs. [11994/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (1 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of action plans for jobs printed and the cost breakdown of printing, layout and distribution costs of the action plans for jobs and the action plans for jobs table of actions. [11995/12]