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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: A crisis is developing in the property sector. House prices are rising in the Dublin area at a faster rate than during the craziest days of the Celtic tiger. This has the effect of denying many people homes, increasing pressure on wages and making the city of Dublin and surrounding areas very uncompetitive. Since the crash, access to commercial property is drying up within the State for...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme (17 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: 29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons attending the part-time job incentive in September 2014. [48512/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (17 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when rent allowance thresholds in County Meath will be brought in line with rental market values in the country; and the action she will take to ensure no person or family will be left homeless over Christmas. [48630/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (17 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: 239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his proposed 20-point action plan to tackle emergency and short-term homelessness will be extended to County Meath; the number of vacant properties in the County Meath area that will be brought back into immediate use; and the number of additional emergency beds that will be provided in County Meath by Christmas....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Many happy returns.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It is. We have just been told that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It happened a couple-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Our responsibility is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Given that it took such an inordinate length of time to process that particular file, has anything changed? If it was not a deprioritisation, but simply the way the system works, given the pressure it is under, what confidence can the Minister give citizens that if another whistleblower delivered such a report to the Department, it would not take another two years for it to be delivered to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: But Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: But Minister-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: We have a back and forth here, a Chathaoirligh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Through the Cathaoirleach, a Aire, it is clear there was a decision to deprioritise it. There was a decision not to prioritise it because if there had been a decision to prioritise it, it would happened in a shorter time such as within four months or six months. We know it was not complete until 2014 at some stage. That was a decision. For it not to have been processed meant there was a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I have about 30 seconds left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It is a very short question and it could be answered by "yes" or "no".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I have 30 seconds left of the ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: People watching this now will be aware that a civil servant was involved in investigating a number of very serious allegations, created a witness statement and provided that witness statement to the Department. Under the Minister's management, the Department seems to have decided before the document was researched that there was nothing in it worth delivering and that it did not deserve the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It would have required legal advice to send it to the Garda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Why would the legal advice not have been forthcoming normally anyway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Resourcing: Discussion (16 Dec 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: In December, the initial work was started and we realised it will take quite a bit of time to do it properly. The Department has not had the time to deliver on it because of other issues. To be able to make a decision on the import of a document, it could only happen after it has been fully researched in order to understand if there is nothing new in it. From my perspective, a decision...