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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 902. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the percentage of persons who have come off the housing list in County Meath in the past four years due to meeting their need through resources of their own from the overall County Meath housing list. [49753/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 903. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the number of local authority units that have been allocated to first time tenants in County Meath in the past five years. [49754/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 916. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date by which statutory instruments will be made to commence the new local authority differential rent framework. [1313/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 917. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide specific examples of the way the new local authority differential rent framework will be more equitable. [1314/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 918. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authority rents will increase following the introduction of the new local authority differential rent framework. [1315/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 919. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the rent levels that will apply after the new local authority differential rent framework transitional period has concluded. [1316/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 920. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take in the event a majority of elected representatives of a local authority vote against the implementation of the new differential rent framework and retain the existing arrangements. [1317/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (14 Jan 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 1003. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by Bus Éireann on design and application of wrapping of its coaches in 2014. [1077/15]

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is another unfulfilled promise.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: She did not answer. This is Leaders' Questions and answers.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: There have been only 43,000 new jobs since this Government took office. I got the figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is above the EU average.

Appropriation Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: As the Minister of State described it, the Appropriation Bill 2014 is necessary to give effect to the constitutional requirement to validate payments before the end of the calendar year, and thereby to give statutory authority for the amounts voted by the Dáil for the original Estimates, Revised Estimates and Supplementary Estimates. It also provides for the capital carryover from one...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to alter the tax registration process in the construction industry from employer registration to employee-subcontractor registration. [48847/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships that have been created within the construction industry for each of the past ten years by sector; the plans she has to create sufficient apprenticeships to meet the demand in the sector for qualified skilled craft workers. [48845/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Construction Industry Register Ireland (18 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the creation of a register of construction employees' qualifications. [48846/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The housing market is a dysfunctional market currently. While it is not directly the responsibility of the Minister, thousands of jobs could potentially be created within the housing market if this dysfunction was resolved. I ask the Minister to focus on the area in the Action Plan for Jobs, which is meant to be a cross-departmental plan. Vacancy rates for commercial property are falling....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to refer to four issues briefly. Improved access to finance for developers locally is important to ensure they can build facilities to take the pressure off the Government. NAMA is not resolving its processes properly at the moment. The planning regime in the State is not suitable for current needs, nor is the supply chain within the construction industry suited to addressing the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I am talking about workers in the construction industry. That side of the whole process is in chaos at the moment. As the Minister is aware, the instability arose from the Supreme Court decision in 2013 on registered employment agreements, REAs. Currently, there are widespread abuses within the construction industry in terms of the National Minimum Wage Act, relevant contracts tax, RCT,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the growing difficulties within the commercial property sector, the steps he is taking to ease cost competitive disadvantages and create jobs in construction industry. [48458/14]