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Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is playing fast and loose-----

Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: -----with the democratic process of this country. It is extremely important that this contempt ends today. Will we have a debate on the issue today, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?

Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: It is hard to discuss the Order of Business when we cannot even have order in the Chamber. This issue is of serious importance. Thousands of euro of debt hang over each citizen of the State. Taxes and the provision of public services are at stake. A generation is at tipping point. We need more than shadow boxing on this issue. We need a real debate, provided by the Government, on this...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: He voted against the legislation.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: It is incomplete.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (12 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts he has undertaken to reduce service costs such as legal on business. [3242/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (12 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not reject in any way these comments but the Secretary General of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation made a very important statement last week, his view being there would be a tightening of state aid. When we pushed him on what this would mean he stated that the Commission desired less state aid to be delivered to cover fewer people. Given the major unemployment problems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Rural development is very important and as the Minister knows, rural areas have probably suffered more from the downturn than many of the urban areas. The top ten counties in terms of unemployment are rural, with Donegal having the highest rate at approximately 26% unemployed. With the north west, one of the major challenges is access to transport, as it does not have a rail link. The A5...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I have two questions for clarification purposes. When the CEBs mutate into an LEO, will they lose any of their staff complement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Will funding remain the same in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not mean to labour this point, but will the total funding resource allocation change, even in its new form through Enterprise Ireland?

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The programme for Government committed to dealing with the legacy of upward-only rents. Yesterday, 300 jobs were lost in HMV and another 600 jobs under threat in B&Q. These numbers are in addition to job losses in other organisations such as Black Tie, La Senza, Game, Pamela Scott, Atlantic Homecare and numerous other smaller Irish businesses-----

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: A total of 50,000 jobs have been lost in this sector in the past four years. Last week the Government published the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill which recognises in its preamble that the common good may require permanent or temporary interference with the rights, including property rights, of persons. When will the Government bring legislation to deal with this serious disaster in...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: It was promised in the programme for Government.

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: It was shocking to hear an Teachta Joe McHugh who comes from a county with an employment rate of 26% and where individuals have large levels of debt on their shoulders celebrate the fact that the financial crisis had really been confined to Ireland and that contagion had not spread across Europe. He appears to believe this is some achievement. I agree with an Teachta Peter Mathews to the...

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I will explain the matter in clear terms. We voted in favour of the initial guarantee, which related to bailing out depositors. The Minister of State is winking at me, which is testament to the sleight of hand shown.

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: When it became clear that Fianna Fáil wanted to introduce a blanket guarantee, we voted against it. The Minister of State is not stupid and knows this. The fact that he continues to allow people to think we supported the bank guarantee is testament to the type of politics in which he involves himself. It is important that the Government examine the issue of monetary financing. The...

Promissory Notes Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The point is that if a Government is willing to use leverage there is a far greater chance of getting the necessary deal. The Government says it could not get a better deal, but we will never know that because it did not ask for a better deal. It is impossible to know the capacity for a deal unless it had pushed for that particular capacity. The sad fact is that every citizen of this...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline proposals to transfer clinical psychologist posts from the Health Service Executive to the new Child and Family Support Agency; if she will detail the consultation and engagement with professional bodies and unions which have taken place in advance of this proposed move; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7310/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the way the figure of 12,000 jobs created in the private sector as stated in the Action Plan for Jobs Progress Report was arrived at; and the number of these jobs that are part-time, full-time and temporary/casual. [7741/13]