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Job Creation (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: People will note the Government is listing the number of its action plans when people would prefer the Government to deal with the jobs problem. While the Government's jobs action plan has some good points, the proportion of the problem and the proportion of the proposed solution are not meeting up, unfortunately. Enterprise Ireland created a net number of six new jobs last year. This is a...

Credit Availability (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the steps taken by him to address the issues of credit within the small and medium enterprise sector. [34248/12]

Credit Availability (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Credit comprises one of the four pillars of a properly functioning enterprise sector, in addition to keeping costs down, ensuring there is not over-regulation and that regulation is fair, and ensuring demand. Demand is extremely important. Credit in this State is dysfunctional, for a number of reasons. The primary reason is that the troika dictates that the banks must have accelerated...

Credit Availability (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The major issue for me is that the European Central Bank reduced its rate to 0.75% this week, yet the lowest rate we could find for businesses was 6%. The previous Government put €64 billion into the banks and is a major shareholder therein. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, said he met the banks. Has he asked them to reduce the rate of interest...

Credit Availability (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to make two key points. The Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, ISME, claims that almost 50% of its members still have difficulty getting credit. When the European Central Bank, ECB, started reducing rates for domestic mortgages, there were interesting pictures of an emboldened Taoiseach claiming that the Government had put it up to the banks to get them to reduce the...

Credit Availability (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State is not answering my question.

Credit Availability (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Has the Minister asked the banks to reduce their interest rates?

Credit Availability (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Another credit question will be taken shortly.

County Enterprise Boards (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: This question relates to the experience of CEBs. Today, an individual told me that his CEB had no money when he went to it in April 2011. He did not want to return to it this year because he figured that it would still have no money. When I contacted the CEB recently, it stated that it had money. There is a great deviation between CEBs' first quarter results. Some have spent 90% of their...

County Enterprise Boards (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I have made my points on the dangers of having the local authority involved, as it is a cost and regulation centre for small businesses. Therefore, there is a natural antipathy for small businesses. There is also a lack of culture within local authorities towards enterprise, and I agree with Deputy O'Dea's comment that there is very low morale within county enterprise boards throughout the...

Information Technology (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: We welcome the promotion of cloud computing. It has the potential to make savings for businesses throughout the State. Businesses will connect to the cloud through broadband, and we are concerned that at present the State has three broadband speeds, namely, fast, medium and none. We have fallen to 57th place internationally with regard to broadband speeds. The movement towards cloud...

Industrial Development (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Foreign direct investment is extremely important given the collapse of the domestic market. We are supportive of the successes the Government has achieved with regard to foreign direct investment, but it is not nearly enough considering the major problem we have. We also have problems with the fact foreign direct investment operates in the State as an enclave. I have previously given the...

Industrial Development (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I have no problem with individuals getting bonuses for good work. That is not the point of my question. The point is that I want this Chamber to be able to review the work of individual offices, because while some offices may be successful, there is no reason we should not be able to measure what is happening in all of the offices. As a parliament, we should encourage such transparency....

Employment Support Services (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: People cannot eat every section of the jobs action plan, nor will the Pathways to Work scheme pay people's mortgages. What people want to see are real jobs and not some kind of self-created score card the Government can tick off and feel it is succeeding. It is disastrous that we have 200,000 people who are long-term unemployed. At the personal level, this means a significant number of...

Written Answers — Credit Guarantee Scheme: Credit Guarantee Scheme (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the credit guarantee scheme will be in place. [33849/12]

Written Answers — Credit Guarantee Scheme: Credit Guarantee Scheme (12 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he believes the first guarantees will be issued to business through the credit guarantee scheme. [33850/12]

Gaeltacht Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá an Bille seo iontach tabhachtach. Táimid ag labhairt faoi todhchaí na Gaeilge agus todhchaí na Gaeltachta. Tá a fhios ag an Aire Stáit go bhfuil an todhchaí sin i gcontúirt. Tá an Ghaeilge á labhairt sa tír le níos mó ná 2,000 bliain. Nuair a bunaíodh an Stát, bhí an Ghaeilge á labhairt ag 250,000 duine sa Ghaeltacht. Is figiúr an-mhór é sin. Sna fichidí agus...

Gaeltacht Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Only 18 people have availed of it.

Gaeltacht Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Of course.

Gaeltacht Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Not with empty platitudes.