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Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Pickpocketing

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Pickpocketing.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Which is wiped out with the water charges.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Net of the cuts-----

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: We want to see a proper water system, paid for by a progressive tax.

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the measures in An Action Plan for Jobs 2015 dealing with small and medium enterprise and micro-enterprise access to public procurement of goods and services contracts are sufficiently ambitious to increase both sectors' share of these public contracts within the lifetime of the plan. [12097/15]

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Public procurement presents one of the biggest opportunities for SMEs in the State. An Action Plan for Jobs states the ambitions of the Government are merely to increase SME awareness and identify further measures to assist public sector procurement. In other words, in the Government's fourth year in office, its ambition is to look into the matter. I sat with a previous Minister...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015 states with regard to public procurement and SMEs that its ambitions include increasing awareness and looking into further methods to improve it. The Minister of State has said €2.4 billion in public procurement was analysed and referred to expenditure of €8 billion. The truth of the matter is that the Office of Public Procurement simply does not...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The enterprise agencies should be focusing on the key issue, that is, getting rid of blockages. There are tenders rolled up into massive tenders that preclude small businesses from competing. There are articles within contracts that state tendering companies must have a massive turnover and profit and be heavily insured. This also precludes small businesses. The State is measuring which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no doubt that there are examples that buck the trend in each of the regions trending generally in a negative fashion. We have to measure the trends in those areas to be able to create the proper policies and develop the resources to solve the problems. It is not a case of looking for the worst figure. Anyone with two ears on them who steps outside of the M50 into the rest of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The minority of jobs are outside Dublin.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department has provided any additional investment for the development of regional enterprise strategies framework; the job creation and investment targets for each of the eight strategic planning areas; the way the strategies for the west and south west will address the fall in employment in both regions, and the stagnation of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Ireland's economic recovery, slow as it is, is almost exclusively located in Dublin and its hinterland while stagnation and decline persist in other parts of the country. The conclusions of the Nevin Economic Research Institute have been discussed. Its last quarterly bulletin basically stated that 94% of the 29,000 new jobs created in the economy last year were in the greater Dublin area....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government's objective for full employment is 6.5% unemployment. Given that Iceland has an unemployment rate of 4% and it is 4% also in Germany, the question arises as to whether they are super full-employment countries. A rate of 6.5% does not seem like-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The previous response I had on the matter indicated that full employment was 6.5%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Regional Enterprise Strategy (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not wish to get diverted into a discussion in that regard. We have lopsided development in this country at the moment. That has not happened by accident. In 2011 a total of 27% foreign direct investment went into the regions. Regional FDI investment was worse in 2012 and we have only seen slightly improved figures in recent years. In the third year of the Government's term of office...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of the estimated 1.3 million jobs that will be lost to worker displacement arising from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership that will be Irish small and medium-sized enterprise jobs. [12180/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The European Commission and the Government have stated over and over again that the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, TTIP, will be advantageous to small and medium sized enterprises, SMEs. Very little evidence of the exact benefits of TTIP have been provided to date. The Minister has said that businesses will enjoy increased market share, but we have heard very little about...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: A study into the first 12 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement found that more than 1 million jobs were lost in the US during that period, with millions of other people suffering a significant decline in wages and conditions. As assessment by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, which was financed by the European Commission, found that TTIP is likely to result in prolonged...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (26 Mar 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The displacement of 1.3 million jobs in Europe will be an economic shock to 1.3 million families. The Minister has given information on a global scale about the objectives of TTIP with regard to increased trade and business levels, etc. All we are seeking is the detail. There is pressure at the moment for TTIP to be delivered very quickly. We are asking the Government to set out its stall...