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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: HMV is in examinership in the UK and I understand there is a takeover bid in the UK for it. It is in receivership here, which is the difference. I hope a buyer will be found to salvage some of the business. The advice of the Attorney General on upward-only rents is quite clear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: The advice was given by the Attorney General.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: As the Deputy will know from his own constituency, rents have reduced regardless of the existence of upward-only rent reviews. As I have often said, there is 13,000 sq. ft. of retail area per head of population, compared with 1,000 sq. ft. in the UK, which is part of the legacy of the previous Government. The point is that rents-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: That is only one aspect of the problem. The Deputy must remember that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: It is about confidence and credit in the economy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: In the doom and gloom Sinn Féin is professing, it never recognises the opportunities. I visit companies throughout the country where jobs are being created.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: Deputy Tóibín is coming in here with the same pessimistic outlook all the time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: There is opportunity in the retail trade and some businesses are very successful at the moment - they are not all closing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: The Deputy needs to look at the positivity in the market as well as the opportunities and challenges in the economy. I was in the RDS-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: I was at the National Crafts and Design Fair in the RDS. Did Deputy Tóibín attend the National Crafts and Design Fair this week?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: Jobs are being created at the National Crafts and Design Fair in the RDS and there are great opportunities in the retail sector.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: We have debated-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: It is not necessary.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: It is not the issue that is closing down businesses at the moment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: The entire focus of Action Plan for Jobs 2012 has been on measures to protect existing jobs and support the creation of new jobs. It addresses issues of competitiveness, access to finance, support of enterprise and sectoral strategies. The enterprise support agencies of the Department, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and the county enterprise boards, are all alert to the need for business...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: That is quite a different question from the question Deputy Tóibín asked. On enterprise and business, as the Minister, Deputy Bruton, correctly stated, it is difficult to get into private enterprise. There are the protections of PRSI and the workers will get the benefits. I took a Topical Issue debate on this last week. They will get the statutory redundancy from the State. It...
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: I thank Deputy Calleary for raising this important issue, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton. Any reduction in social welfare payments or benefits is difficult for those affected. The overall concern of the Government in budget 2013 was to protect the primary weekly social welfare rates. To allow us to protect the core payments people...
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: I will raise with the Minister the Deputy's point on carrying over units. On the issue of doing a deal, I am certain the Minister is very conscious of the need to obtain best value for money. The previous Administration worked with the providers of electricity, telephone services and so forth. Many people switch providers.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Rates (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: I disagree. There is no better example of a population that obtains value for money than the older generation. They did not get carried away in the silly season and have always kept their feet on the ground. While the Deputy makes a good point, the Minister is conscious of the position of those who are in need. An allowance is available in cases of inability to pay. The Minister is doing...
- Topical Issue Debate: Education and Training (24 Jan 2013)
John Perry: I assure Deputy Nash that I will bring his concerns to the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, as he has raised important points. Some flexibility already exists within the initiative whereby a person who was temporarily in receipt of a carer's payment but was otherwise on the live register during the previous 18 months may be considered for the Momentum initiative, and there is a...