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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Official Engagements (4 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has discussed with the British Ambassador to Ireland or with representatives of the British Government the content of a recent RTE programme (details supplied). [38528/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I congratulate Dr. Jones on the great work in which he is involved. In November 2011, Fasttrack to Information Technology, FIT, came before the committee. This organisation involves information technology companies which work together to ensure the skills gaps in the sector are met in some fashion. It always strikes me as bizarre that although this country is still in an unemployment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It strikes me that the skills gap has been a theme for the past four or five years. Is there any information on how the education sector has reoriented itself over the past four or five years to fill this skills gap? The CAO form has approximately 1,400 college courses. How have these altered over the past four or five years to resolve this problem?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: How many of the 2,000 people Dr. Jones mentioned were long-term unemployed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: How many of them were young people between the ages of 18 and 25?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Increasing Employment through Training: Innopharma Labs (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes. They are the two groups in respect of which there has been no success with regard to the creation of jobs and are the two stubborn elements in the context of the unemployment figures. How successful has Dr. Jones been in breaking those two groups down?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she has considered postponing three-monthly and six-monthly community welfare reviews of rent supplement entitlements for tenants, which are providing landlords with the opportunity to increase the cost of the rent mid-lease; if she is aware that many persons are becoming homeless, having run into arrears, while their...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Exemptions (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 321. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of additional workers who would be removed from the universal social charge if the exemption rate was increased from €13,000 to €19,572. [37964/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cross-Border Co-operation (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 338. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the common chapter which formed part of the national development plan for the south of Ireland and the structural funds plan for the north of Ireland still exists; and, if so, the extent to which it is managed and implemented. [38385/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 373. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the integration, on a practical level, that exists between InterTradeIreland and the local enterprise offices, Enterprise Ireland, the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland. [38388/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 576. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hours per week that Castlepollard Garda station is without a rostered garda; her plans to permanently increase the staffing complement; and the distance to the nearest available staffed Garda station when this station has no staff present. [37895/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (3 Nov 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 661. To ask the Minister for Health when the building of a new laboratory in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Navan in County Meath will take place, as it has been on the estates management construction list for the past seven years. [37407/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I congratulate Enterprise Ireland on the excellent figures presented to us today. I wish to focus on the LEOs. I have been advised that because of the change from county enterprise boards with CEOs leaving and roles changing there may have been staffing difficulties in the LEOs. About a month and a half ago some people told me that they were advised that the start-your-own business...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Previously, the county enterprise boards had a very uneven delivery of exporting programmes for microbusinesses. Has that changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is Enterprise Ireland's funding increasing or decreasing next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There were significant discussions a few years ago about Ireland's exports to the BRIC countries and some of the growth figures were quite interesting. However, in real terms the figures were still extremely low. Enterprise Ireland is pointing to a 25% increase to Latin American countries and quite a decent increase to Asia. However, what proportion do those countries make of the overall...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: What proportion would that be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Of high-growth-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Mr. O'Donnellan mentioned geographical spread. We have seen in the media recently FDI companies such as PayPal mentioned there are difficulties about housing workers and they have called on staff to make rooms available for new employees. Have any Dublin clients of Enterprise Ireland communicated anything to the effect that the housing crisis in the city could act as a brake on expansion or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Very good. Funding was mentioned earlier. Are there any trends in that regard? In the past there was a bigger proportion of grant funding than equity funding, which would have been less, but the trend has gone towards equity funding in recent years. Is that situation continuing? What are the proportions of each currently?