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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: We can normally ask supplementary questions. Will that be the case today?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Is that four minutes for me to speak?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: So, the longer the Minister speaks, the less time I have to speak. It is important to bring reality back to the situation. Under this Government, unemployment is measured at 14% to 15% on the live register and long-term unemployment is at 60%. Despite some of the recent announcements, job losses continue to outnumber job gains. The only stabilising effect on employment figures in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I make no apology for repeatedly asking this question. On both a human and economic level this is a disastrous situation for hundreds of thousands of people. While it is possible to select sub-groups or micro-elements in the economy where there has been some level of improvement, the general figures speak for themselves. The net job loss was 33,000. Given that the Department of Finance...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made in the establishment of local enterprise offices including the role of individual Irish small and medium enterprises and SME representative groups as part of the committee overseeing the development of the local enterprise offices. [52082/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I was looking at the action plan for jobs recently and action 1.38 outlined that there would be a new system of strategic dialogue that will align funding of higher education institutions to performance in the achievement of national objectives for a system development and priorities in relation to skills development commencing in 2012 and it will be fully rolled out in the coming years....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not just me - it is the enterprise organisations.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Representatives of ISME and the SFA told the committee they were completely opposed to this.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Small businesses see the local authorities as cost centres, regarding planning applications, rates, enforcement etc. They do not regard local authorities as having a culture of enterprise. Representatives of the SFA and ISME have told the committee that it would be disastrous if this proceeds. The Minister of State has left it very late to consult these organisations, but given that he is...

Other Questions: Job Retention (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Leitrim has received one of the lowest levels of grant aid in the State, which is indicative of a bigger problem. Leitrim has not had a single IDA Ireland client company visit in the past three years. There is a swathe of rural counties that is not receiving any visits from IDA Ireland client companies. If they are not even receiving visits from these organisations, how in God's name are...

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome some of the changes the Government has introduced with regard to finance. The scale of the problem is that approximately €40 billion in private sector investment has come of the economy in recent years. The Government set up the credit guarantee scheme which cost it €6 million over three years. It is putting in €2 million on an annual basis through that scheme...

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: In the credit guarantee.

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like to ask a supplementary question.

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like the Minister of State to address an important question. The Credit Review Office has overturned the decision in 55% of the applications it has received. It, by definition, is saying that in the sample size of the applications with which it is dealing there is a breakdown in more than half of the applications with which the banks are dealing. I believe that the Minister and the...

Other Questions: Retail Sector (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Nevin Economic Research Institute has indicated 30,000 jobs have been lost in the retail and wholesale sectors in recent years and the knock-on effect of these losses in local areas has been greater than this. Some parts of the State and some retail sectors have experienced a lift in recent months, but the main streets of many provincial towns have a significant number of shops boarded...

Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like to ask a question.

Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Last Monday, we took a trip to see approximately 25 businesses in County Donegal to get an understanding of their status. We were at an engineering firm on the Inishowen Peninsula, whose management made the point that the way in which Lean management and Lean manufacturing programmes are delivered through Enterprise Ireland is very awkward for them. They end up not accessing them from...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will account for the delay in implementing nine measures of the action plan for jobs that were due in Quarter three of this year. [51876/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Tests (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to keep the cost of taking driving tests down in view of the large increase in recent years. [52699/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Employment (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he has taken to ensure that the tourism sector is delivering added employment from the 9% rate of VAT; if he will outline the effects of the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52694/12]