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Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I too have spoken to industry representatives about this issue. This industry, which employs thousands of people across the State, is under great pressure. Many of the companies involved are small. For a small business to have to meet the cost of a €5,000 audit on a regular basis is an imposition. Also, this cost is generally passed on to customers. One of the major elements in terms...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I take the view of the Central Bank with regard to this issue but from the response it seems everybody involved realises there is an onerous burden on the industry, particularly on the smaller players. If these individuals were allowed to operate without the current auditing procedure, the Central Bank would not feel directly confident, but I believe the Central Bank looks sympathetically at...

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (28 Jun 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome this important Bill. It is important that we give foreign direct investment all the support we can, but it also important that we make sure that foreign direct investment does not operate as an enclave in this State, which it does in many ways. Some 80% to 90% of the inputs into chemical and pharmaceutical industries, which make up 60% of our exports, are brought into this State...

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (28 Jun 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 47: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reduce pay to the top earners in his Department particularly those earning more than €100,000 per year. [31214/12]

Written Answers — Tidy Towns Committees: Tidy Towns Committees (28 Jun 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 189: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding available to assist tidy town committees in their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31520/12]

Accident and Emergency Services (3 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Some 16 months ago the Minister gave a commitment that he would do his best to defend hospital services in Navan. At the invitation of the Save Navan Hospital campaign, he addressed the 10,000 strong crowd who attended the public rally and said there would be no further cuts that would put people's health and lives in danger. Fine Gael candidates in the constituency stood on the election...

Accident and Emergency Services (3 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Central to the reconfiguration process that was signed up to by health professionals in the north east was the building of a new regional hospital, but this has not materialised. I hear much good medical advice to say there must be a certain through-put for procedures to be clinically safe, but I cannot find any medical professional who will say reducing services in existing hospitals...

Education (Amendment) (Protection of Schools) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá mé an-bhródúil go raibh seans agam obair leis an bhfeachtas Sábháil Ár Scoileanna Beaga. Tá an-taithí agam ar an bhfadhb seo. Thug mé cuairt ar an méid sin scoileanna i gContae na Mí agus i gContae na hIarmhí agus tá faitíos an domhain ar mhuintir na tuaithe faoin mbeartas atá an Rialtas seo ag cur i bhfeidhm. Tá mo chomhghleacaithe, na Teachtaí Seán Crowe agus Pearse...

Written Answers — Equality Issues: Equality Issues (3 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or any agencies operating under his aegis has carried out any study on racism in underage football; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32088/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (3 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop a Department specific job creation plans; and if he will outline any initiative for job creation he plans to bring forward. [32095/12]

Written Answers — Voluntary Housing Sector: Voluntary Housing Sector (3 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 445: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the finance provided to voluntary and social housing sector organisations for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. [31823/12]

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 4, to delete "the desirability of agreeing and maintaining" and substitute "the agreeing and maintaining of". Every time we begin a debate on this issue, it is important to put it in the context of what we are trying to achieve. Today we heard the shocking figure that the unemployment rate has increased to 14.9%. It has reached crisis level. The...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I am disappointed with the Minister's view on this. The section states that the court shall have regard to the benefits of the consultation, the experience of registration, the potential impact on employment, the levels of employment and unemployment in the sectors in question. In referring to those sectors, it is more definite in their reference and in the ingredients of the decision...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, lines 31 and 32, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 31 down to and including "so," in line 32. Legislation is made not only for today and tomorrow but, potentially, for generations to come. We must develop and create that legislation to deal with eventualities that may not necessarily be in the objectives or the mind of the current...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Legislative adventurism sounds like a new minority sport and hopefully it is not an extreme sport. One reason 200,000 people are long-term unemployed - that is, they have been unemployed for approximately the same length of time as the present Government's period in office - is upward-only rent reviews. I have prepared legislation in respect of upward-only rents that is waiting to go...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, lines 37 to 39, to delete all words from and including "or" in line 37 down to and including "agreement," in line 39.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, lines 10 and 11, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 10 down to and including "so," in line 11.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 6: In page 9, lines 16 to 18, to delete all words from and including "or" where it firstly occurs in line 16 down to and including "order," in line 18.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 7: In page 10, lines 27 to 29, to delete all words from and including "and" in line 27 down to and including "so," in line 29.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 8: In page 10, lines 35 to 37, to delete all words from and including "or" where it firstly occurs in line 35 down to and including "cancellation," in line 37.