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Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: One truthful speaker, too.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Deputy should say something that is accurate, too.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Your back is against the wall now, Lord Lucan.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Labour Party and Fine Gael really have excelled themselves with this legislation. This Government is rapidly becoming the most divisive Administration in the history of the State.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This obnoxious legislation is, in effect, a form of collective punishment on all citizens for daring to voice their opposition through civil disobedience to the water charges. We have experienced at first hand the disintegration of the social democratic values hard won by the peoples of Europe. We are watching it again, this time in slow motion, in Greece because of the debt hard-liners in...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: This is becoming a boot-boy Government which is using the law to enforce draconian authoritarian measures which are so deeply divisive and unfair that it is breath-taking.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has failed to win the political, social, fiscal and even moral argument on water charges. If it has done anything well, it is this. Irish Water has become the most productive and efficient fiasco factory any Government has managed to create in a long time. I cannot recall any other initiative which a Government has created that has produced so many problems and revisions, as...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some may describe this as the Government literally putting its hands in peoples' pockets. It is an attack on those who have difficulty in surviving in this society. Interestingly, the last two Members spoke about small businesses and employers. This legislation is an attack on them. Employers, like landlords, are to become the State’s debt collectors. The legislation empowers...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Wait. I am trying to educate the Deputy.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Two ears and one mouth. Listen twice and speak once.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is asking employers to become debt collectors against their employees. The good relationship employers have nurtured with their employees to create a productive and decent working environment will come to an end because of this. We have over 345,000 people signing on, with 80,000 more participating in job activation schemes. Outside the public sector, 70% of those working...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Some of this debt will go unpaid in certain cases because workers cannot afford to pay it. Under the Government, low pay has become a byword. Ireland is the second worst in the OECD when it comes to low pay. Under-employment is also entrenched in this society as a result of the divisive anti-social democratic values that Fine Gael and the Labour Party have pursued in government and...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, has opposed every hard-won welfare state choice created.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is iad tuismitheoirí aonair ceann de na grúpaí is leochaileacha sa tír seo. Tá rátaí díothachta níos airde ina measc ná i measc grúpaí eile. I 2008 bhí 14% de theaghlaigh aonair sa Stát ag fulaingt díothachta. I 2013 bhí 31 % de theaghlach le tuismitheoir aonair ag fulaingt. Faoi chúram an Rialtais seo...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (1 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the night of 24 June 2015 was the third time in six weeks at the Navan North East Doctor on Call centre that there was no available doctor to cover the shift. [26537/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Remuneration (1 Jul 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 24 June 2015, the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 per hour in her Department, as has been provided by all Government Departments. [26462/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment in the Pub Sector: Discussion (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome the witnesses. I have some knowledge of this issue as I was close to setting up a craft brewery about 15 years ago and I have done considerable research on the sector although some of it is a little old at this stage. With respect to a supplier power structure in Ireland, there is quite a degree of supplier power here in that there is a small number of suppliers in general and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Low Pay Commission Report (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 148. To ask the Taoiseach the annual cost of introducing a living wage or minimal-threshold gross salary of €11.45 an hour in his Department and the bodies under his aegis. [25441/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised from an increase in vehicle registration tax rates across all bands by 30%. [26035/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection Forecasts (30 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated from reducing the entry-level adjusted income threshold to €100,000 and full restriction level to €200,000, with an effective tax rate of 38%. [26036/15]