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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance in absolute terms, and as a percentage of the predicted available fiscal space, the cost of abolishing the universal social charge within the next five years; the gain for a person earning €185,000 of such an abolition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1515/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge Abolition (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: Guím gach rath ar an Aire tar éis a chóir leighis. Is maith an rud é go bhfuil cuma breá folláin air arís. There is great pressure on the infrastructure of this State and on our public services. There is also great pressure on low and middle income earners. However, there is a dangerous habit in this State of governments shifting the tax base from...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to reduce the cost of credit to small and medium enterprises, and to fix the broken flow of credit from State-created credit facilities. [41755/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 19. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will legislate to allow the Central Bank of Ireland to cap interest rates charged by banks on mortgages, particularly standard variable rate mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1334/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Administration (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has carried researched the likely increase in local property tax that will be faced by liable residents if this tax is not abolished and if the deferral of valuations for the purpose of the tax is not renewed in 2019. [1336/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance if and why he supports the imposition of a €100,000 upper limit on credit union savings; and if he accepts the overwhelming view of the credit union movement that it is unacceptable. [1335/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Data (14 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 135. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs and the total number of jobs supported by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, by county, for the past five years. [1666/16]

Flooding: Statements (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: In the five years I have been in the Dáil, it has always struck me as interesting that the Dáil staggers from crisis to crisis. Members in the Chamber get het up and focused on a major crisis, and then they move on to the next crisis in a few weeks. As a result, the initial crisis never receives the political will, effort or energy it needs to be fixed. I reference this to a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of new claims she has approved and the percentages for the number of refusals based on financial grounds under the disability allowance scheme in each year since 2011 to date. [46560/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Remuneration (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual salaries of Teachtaí Dála, Senators, an Taoiseach, Ministers, Minister of State attending Cabinet and Ministers of State, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46622/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services Staff (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to provide a breakdown of the current staffing of Workplace Relations Commission inspector services in tabular form. [46795/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State organisations that have a North-South enterprise development remit by their activities and by the budgets that have been allocated and spent in this work in the past five years. [1030/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of firms from the North that have used each of the services offered to them in the Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland agreement of January 2007 by year. [1031/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 859. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to detail all North-South planning, investment and development that currently exists or is planned for regarding water and waste water facilities. [46913/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (13 Jan 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 861. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the 2011 consultation document on spatial strategies on the island of Ireland being prepared by his Department and the Department of Regional Development in the North has been concluded; and if so, what aspects of the spatial strategy have been delivered. [1032/16]

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: If they manage to get in.

Industrial Relations (Blacklists) Bill 2015: First Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make it unlawful to compile, use, sell or supply blacklists containing details of people who are, or have been, trade union members or who are taking part, or have taken part, in trade union activities or an industrial action where such blacklists may be used by employers to discriminate in relation to recruitment or the...

Industrial Relations (Blacklists) Bill 2015: First Stage (16 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: American taxes and European public services. That is not going to work.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments (16 Dec 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the projects in which the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has invested, in tabular form. [45588/15]