Results 12,121-12,140 of 16,679 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The conditions are the reason.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: We can give the Taoiseach the Ladybird version of this.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Extra from last year, but not since 2011.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (24 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the employee pay related social insurance exemption threshold to €377 and the introduction of a maximum relief of €12 per week (details supplied). [41787/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (24 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 358. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the first-year and full-year cost of increasing the capitation grant for the free preschool year by €5 per week, bringing it to €67.50 per child, and by €9.50 for the higher capitation grant, bringing it to €82.50 per child. [41786/15]
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: There are thousands of people in emergency accommodation.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Families are living in tents.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (19 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources, whole-time-equivalent staff, and positions provided for in budget 2016's new measures that commit to an additional €8 million spend on therapeutic services for children, including speech and language therapy, in tabular form. [41117/15]
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: This is a very important section, dealing as it does with the issue of foreign direct investment, corporation tax and the Government's efforts to reduce the potential exposure to tax for companies in the future. One of the problems with the economy we have created in this State is its over-reliance on foreign direct investment. There is an inherent imbalance within the Irish economy at the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: With regard to the kicking and screaming comments, Ireland's reputation was on the floor with regard to its corporation tax issues. It was at the heart of discussions of Congress investigations in the United States. I recall that when the Taoiseach was in California the Governor of California made a joke about Ireland's tax regulations in front of him. Internationally we have a poor...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State also mentioned in the context of our discussion about the imbalance in the economy that many of the jobs being created are in the indigenous economy. There is no doubt but that job creation in foreign directive investment, FDI, is totally out of kilter with regard to exports from foreign direct investment. In other words, foreign direct investment has an enormous...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: So drugs produced under a new patent would be included?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The scope is far larger then than I expected.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: That means that the measuring of the processes within these facilities will be key. A cynic would say that if a drug is produced by way of a particular method and that process is altered somewhat then that is innovative because it has changed the process of manufacture of that drug. It may simply be the case that one ingredient has been introduced after another ingredient and so on. How...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The US Bureau of Economic Analysis stated American corporations based here made a profit of $970,000 and paid $25,000 in tax per employee per year, which is a phenomenally low effective corporation tax rate of approximately 2.5%. We can contrast this with the figure for citizens in County Wicklow, whom the Minister of State represents, who pay a tax rate of 40%. They will not have a...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: Absolutely. There must be an international process in which these loopholes are-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 61In page 56, line 6, after “year.” to insert “Revenue shall then make this country-by-country report available to the public on their website.”. We welcome the move towards country-by-country reporting and it leads to an increased level of transparency. However, it is missing public transparency. It is very interesting that the public still...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: I thank the Minister of State. He has given a dispassionate analysis of the situation as it stands. He very cleverly did not give me any opinion whatsoever with regard to whether he thinks it is right that there should be transparent public knowledge and country-by-country reporting. Does he think it is right that people are kept in the dark with regard to their expenditure and the tax...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State is on the fence.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2015)
Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State has given me an apolitical answer.