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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay, but am I correct in stating that the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has an input into that exercise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Has there been-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It might benefit our report if the Minister sent us examples of the Department's engagement with its sister Department in the North on spatial planning. Has anything been done on the development of a Border development zone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: But the idea is that the Border development zone will straddle both sides of the Border. It will be a practical, geographically limited zone which incorporates particular partnerships, taxation policies, policy development synergies, etc. Are there practical steps? Will this be in place before the Government's term ends, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: What actions are planned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Retail Excellence Ireland came together with the Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association, NIIRTA, and created a detailed report based on surveys they carried out of retailers on both sides of the Border and tourists who had visited both jurisdictions. They found there was the potential to generate €750 million if the tourism and shopping sectors were developed. It was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is in the South.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Act 2014 (Section 1313) Regulations 2015: Motion (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: As a matter of interest as opposed to a critique, would it have been possible to apply this provision to unregistered companies in the Companies Act rather than by means of a statutory instrument? The Minister referred to the Bank of Ireland. What other unregistered companies operate here?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 331. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all local authority discretionary expenditure for goods and services is to be moved to a central framework created by the Office of Government Procurement; if so, the date by which this will occur; and if he will provide a breakdown, by county, of the value of the expenditure to be so moved and accordingly lost to local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 339. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form, the number of public sector workers in receipt of an annual gross salary in the pay brackets €0 to €10,000; €10,001 to €20,000; €20,001 to €25,000; €25,001 to €30,000; €30,001 to €35,000; €35,001 to €40,000;...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Minimum Wage (26 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 19 May 2015, if he will provide the requested costing, as he has provided for in Parliamentary Questions Nos. 154 and 155 of 19 May 2015. [20624/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Job Creation Data (19 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to set out the number of net new jobs, per year, created between quarter two, 2011 and quarter two, 2014. [39380/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Haddington Road Agreement Review (19 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual cost to the Exchequer of lifting the increment freeze imposed on public sector workers in the Haddington Road agreement, on gross salaries less than €35,000, and between €35,000 and €65,000. [19545/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Haddington Road Agreement Review (19 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual cost to the Exchequer of restoring the overtime payments imposed on public sector workers in the Haddington Road agreement, on gross salaries of less than €35,000 and of between €35,000 and €65,000. [19546/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (19 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost to the Exchequer of increasing the salary paid to approximately 4,000 low paid public sector workers in receipt of family income supplement, to bring their income above the benefit threshold. [19547/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Minimum Wage (19 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost to the Exchequer of introducing a living wage, minimal threshold, gross salary of €11.45 an hour. [19548/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Levy (19 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual cost to the Exchequer if the first €17,500, €20,000, €22,500, €25,000 and €27,000 of income, respectively, were exempted from the pension related deduction. [19549/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding (19 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of community groups that availed of the social inclusion budget administered by Meath Partnership in 2014; if all successful applications have been drawn down in full; and if he will, on the awarding of the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme tender, administer social inclusion money in County...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (19 May 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 497. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the solution the Government will provide regarding the housing need of a person (details supplied) in County Meath, who is in mortgage distress, and has fully engaged with the bank, and who fulfils the criteria for mortgage to rent, but due to the capacity of the social housing providers, will not be able to avail of the...