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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I am cautious about this amendment because of the question of the balance between employee and employer. For example, if the employee lives in west Kerry and the construction company is based in Dublin but carries out its business around the State, will the employee have to travel from Kerry to the Dublin Circuit Court? If someone is of little means, staying in a bed and breakfast or hotel...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Minister of State understand from where I am coming?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State might table an amendment to underline that practice.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat.

Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for paid bereavement leave.Cuirim an Bille seo os comhair na Dála. Cuirfidh mé in iúl don Teach na sonraí atá sa Bhille. As the Minister is aware, there is no legislative provision for bereavement leave. While the public sector provides for such leave and employers in the private sector...

Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)

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

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Human nature and business being what they are, people in business often have an incentive to use the system to their own benefit and to ensure gaps that arise can be used to reduce costs or improve profit. It is human nature and how business works. This is why it is important the Government ensure such gaps do not exist. Decent, fair regulation is a good thing. The absence of decent...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is dul chun cinn é an Bille seo, gan dabht. Bhí sé dochreidte gur fhágadh muintir na morgáistí IBRC amuigh san fhuacht go dtí seo mar gheall ar rialachán morgáiste. Is fadhb uafásach mhór í fós an ghéarchéim morgáiste sa tír seo. Tá duine as seisear i mo chontae féin i bponc mar gheall ar a...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontaím go huile agus go hiomlán leis an leasú seo. Why should a home owner or business person not know everything about the loan that pertains to their property? Given modern technology, there is nothing to stop the bank from barcoding and individualising loans to ascertain the details and to manage the loan and disaggregate it for management purposes. I have dealt in my...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay.

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I mentioned this the last day and an Teachta Naughten referred to it. There are examples of firms that are doing their best to function and provide a service, employing workers in a fair and decent manner. If given an opportunity, they would trade out of the difficulties they are in. On Committee Stage I gave the Minister the example of a firm in County Meath that is seeking to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (17 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of impending job losses at a company (details supplied) in County Clare, despite Government's announcement last year that the company intended to create 100 additional jobs over the next year; if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual number of full-time jobs announced by the Government, via the regular jobs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is usually ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The agenda for the ECOFIN meeting underlines the deep, comprehensive and invasive reach that the EU has within the Irish economy. Given the immediacy for Greece of the existential threat to the euro, I imagine most of the discussion, if not the thought, within the ECOFIN meeting will concern the crisis in Greece. Has the Government had any direct input into the negotiations regarding Greece?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I can understand why-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister mentioned that Germany and France have skin in the game with regard to the level of debt that they are owed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This country has more skin in the game per capitathan other countries in terms of the debt crisis, given the level of its debt burden. The Government has not made a direct positive engagement with regard to the write-down of Greek debt so far in the negotiations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it the case that the Government has become a debt hawk? If the Greek debt receives a write-down, it underlines the weakness in the Government's approach to the level of debt.