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

Peadar Tóibín: Very good. Mention was made of the competitive calls in which Enterprise Ireland has been involved. Are they any key characteristics of the successful companies within that process?

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

Peadar Tóibín: Has Enterprise Ireland been involved in the development of the knowledge development box? Has it been advising or at least suggesting to the Government the best structure for that? I read recently that some of the research and development innovation can happen overseas for it to still fall within the knowledge development box.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 463. To ask the Minister for Health the pathway for all categories of patients, most especially trauma patients, when Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in County Louth is off-call. [36250/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Emergency Planning (20 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 683. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Government’s policy to distribute in-date iodine tablets to each family in the State is still in place; and the plans in place in the case of an nuclear accident. [36084/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (13 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are official connections, structures or integrated service provisions between cross-Border educational organisations such as the education and training boards and local enterprise offices and their northern counterparts; and if any of the universities provide outreach courses in the Border areas. [35209/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (13 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 436. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding was returned to his Department after the last round of Leader, as part of the rural development programme; and if he is aware of any areas with underspend. [35611/15]

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an mBille tábhachtach seo, Bille atá tábhachtach do na mílte daoine sa tír seo. Tacóidh Sinn Féin leis an mBille agus le cúnamh Dé beidh leasuithe againn le cur os comhair an Tí ar Chéim an Choiste. Tá súil agam nach bhfanfaidh an Bille idir seo agus Céim an Choiste go deo. Tá...

Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom tacaíocht a thabhairt don Bille seo. The Minister of State raised a number of issues with the timing of the proposed Lá na Poblachta. The point of Deputy Ó Snodaigh's Bill is to separate the celebration from the Easter weekend, which is a religious time for many people. Celebrating 1916 in a chronological fashion is logical. If the Minister of State sticks to...

Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some want to bask in the commemorative glow of Pearse and Connolly while hundreds of thousands remain on housing waiting lists and thousands more remain homeless. Some use the word "equality" and stretch it, but how can it be used when billions of euro are being spent to repay unsecured debts while elderly people remain on trolleys? One in six Irish people live abroad. Tens of thousands of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are on the waiting list at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin in Dublin 12 for spinal surgery; and scoliosis surgery, for each of the past four years; the average length of time children have had to wait; the number of children who are on the waiting list, who are being sent to other hospitals; and if he will...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is the Taoiseach's lack of awareness that is of concern.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is that going to be the Taoiseach's answer for everything?

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the Taoiseach going to do something to find out?

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá mé buíoch as ucht an deis labhairt faoin ábhar fíor-thábhactach seo. Aontaíonn Sinn Féin leis an gcuid is mó den rún seo. Last week, we heard from the CSO and the OECD that 17.5% - one in six - of Irish people are living abroad. That is a phenomenal figure and it is far worse in the 20 and 30 age group, which is one in four. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: On the large corporation tax increase, the view is that we are not certain what is behind it. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it the case that under the fiscal rules the State has to reduce its debt ratio to 60% by 2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Given that and the issues we discussed earlier, is there any estimation of what the fiscal space will be in the three or four years following budget 2016?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Can Mr. McCarthy recollect if those figures are in or around those about which we have been speaking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Would the amount be in or around €1.5 billion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Macroeconomic Forecast for 2016: Department of Finance (6 Oct 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Nonetheless, it distorts the investment figures.