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Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Will the Minister offer time?

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: We will ask the committee to raise the matter.

Other Questions: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the intended reform of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 Bill fulfils the programme for Government commitment to reform the current law on employees' right to engage in collective bargaining to ensure compliance by the State with recent judgements of the European Court of Human Rights. [23803/14]

Other Questions: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday, I met the representative of the Paris Bakery at a demonstration outside Leinster House. While I was listening to the speakers, I realised the Government is not friendly towards workers at all and those who thought that voting for Labour would take the extreme edges off Fine Gael have been sorely disappointed with regard to collective bargaining, which is a human right and is...

Other Questions: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I tabled the Protection of Employees (Amendment) Bill in 2012, but Labour and Fine Gael voted against it. This Bill would have prevented the situation we now have in regard to the Paris Bakery. Under the current Government, we have seen an increase in part-time, short-term and zero hours contracts and seen a reduction in Sunday premiums. Workers, therefore, have suffered under the...

Other Questions: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The key or crux is that if it is a voluntary system, we do not have collective bargaining. If, instead of having a voluntary system, the Minister is just substituting a convoluted, complex legal process through which workers are forced to use the courts to try to grab back their rights, this makes it more difficult for workers to ensure their rights are upheld. In all of this, there must be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Losses (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs that were lost in the wholesale and retail sector in the first quarter of this year; the causes of the job losses; and his plans to reverse these losses. [23953/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Losses (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The question is in a similar vein. Over the past number of weeks, the Labour Party has said that 60,000 new jobs have been created and the Minister of State, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, referred to 5,000 jobs every week being created. The reality is shockingly different. The job creation tentatively experienced last year has ground to a halt and a number of sectors are under fierce pressure....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Losses (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome those initiatives and particularly the ability of the retail industry to feed into Government policy. Until now, the retail industry has been the forgotten sector of society. Some 250,000 people work in it and it has lost 50,000 jobs in the past few years. It is the weathervane of the economy and it is very sensitive to expectations. I spoke to retailers who say that when the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Losses (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like to focus the attention of the Minister of State on the accuracy of the figures. I raised this point in the first part of the question. The CSO figures released at the end of last month suggest the increase in employment was not as great as had been stated in March. A number of times, we have seen contradictory figures. Professor John FitzGerald of the ESRI said that this was...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Social Enterprise Sector (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the work of the inter-departmental group on social enterprise; and the progress that has been made in furthering the development of this sector. [23804/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the up to date draw down of the micro finance loan fund and the credit guarantee scheme. [23805/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (5 Jun 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received the preliminary report from the expert panel established to find a resolution to the Aer Lingus pensions dispute; if not, when he expects to receive same; and when is the expert panel due to submit their final report. [24033/14]

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (29 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le mo comhghleacaí, an Teachta Pearse Doherty, as am a roinnt liom ar an mBille tábhacht seo. Mar adúirt an Teachta, táimid go léir ag fanacht lenár gcroí inár mbéal le fada le rud éigin a chloisint maidir leis an infheistíocht seo. The impending arrival of the Bill has been announced by...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (29 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 77. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when Ireland will ratify the EU trade agreement with Colombia. [23600/14]

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has deepened the recession.

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (27 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to raise an issue related to this legislation, the ongoing crisis in Paris Bakery. Shockingly, six years into the crisis we are still confronted with workers who, through no fault of their own, are not being paid for work done and who are not granted holiday and redundancy entitlements, etc. by unscrupulous employers. We are still faced with a regulation and legislation gap and a...

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Because of crushing poverty caused by the Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Oireachtas Banking Inquiry (27 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister should leave it up to people to be disappointed. Surely people should not be protected by the Minister in this regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Oireachtas Banking Inquiry (27 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Does the Minister not have any power to release this letter? Do the Irish people not have an entitlement to understand the contents of the letter? This letter is important in the context of a banking inquiry. A banking inquiry should have a 360-degree view of what happened and no blind spots should be created by the Minister or the ECB. It is worrying that the ECB will not commit to...