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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I am glad there will be a new emphasis in IDA Ireland's strategy because, while its job creation efforts have been positive and successful in recent years, the regionalisation aspect of its strategy has been a disaster. The figures speak for themselves. In 2010, some 37% of inward investment was located outside Cork and the greater Dublin area. This figure fell to 27% in 2011 an declined...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister may have been concentrating on more important matters when I asked my earlier question on foreign direct investment. My first point was that foreign direct investment is positive and necessary and we must fight for more of it. I pointed out, however, that the imbalance in our exports on the FDI side is dangerous and implored the Minister to seek to rebalance the position. For...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I seek balance.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices Establishment (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the educational processes that have been put in place to ensure local authority staff are qualified to deal with clients of the new local enterprise offices, LEOs; and the training that has been put in place to ensure seamless delivery between the LEOs and Enterprise Ireland. [29882/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices Establishment (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Bhí an-áthas orm fáilte a chur roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Perry, go dtí An Uaimh Dé Máirt seo caite. I am sure the Minister of State is busy going around the country launching the local enterprise offices, LEOs, in each county and city. One of the major worries for us and enterprise organisations at the start of the process was that the LEOs would not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices Establishment (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I have no doubt the Minister of State is correct and that the two officials, Mr. Hugh Reilly and Ms Jackie Maguire, will do a tremendous job. My concern is with the whole of the State, which has seen a transition period. From what I hear, that has not been completely smooth, with LEOs not being able to communicate and engage with entrepreneurs and citizens for a number of weeks as they...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices Establishment (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I want the Minister of State to focus on the key question. What educational process will be put in place to ensure that the staff of a local authority are at one with the LEOs in an enterprise culture? This should be seen as a major opportunity to orient the entire local authority. For years, many would have been of the view that some local authorities around the country had a culture of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Ireland Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the fact that just a small number of American firms account for two-thirds of Irish headline exports and that they directly employ about 72,000 persons here, his plans to re-balance employment distribution on a sustainable level. [30183/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Ireland Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Foreign direct investment is good and my party welcomes it. The Government must do all it can to ensure we will continue to win high levels of it. However, over-dependence on it is a major source of concern, especially when it is based on a small number of factors such as the bargain basement corporation tax rate used by the State. A number of years ago a senior adviser to US President...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Ireland Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The effective corporation tax rate is too low. It is an international joke. It is a serious issue when, during the Taoiseach's travels to California, senior politicians joke that Ireland is considered to be an international corporation tax haven. Our reputation is low as a result. The Minister of State is correct in stating that, comparatively, there is a small number of employees working...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Ireland Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: What will the Government do to rebalance the economy to ensure a far larger volume of exports will come from the indigenous sector?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Ireland Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It should be 12.5%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Ireland Funding (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The effective corporation tax rate should be 12.5%, but it is not; it is far lower than this. The point is that a foreign direct investment economic model is normally seen as transitional for an economy. Normally, a country uses the FDI model to start to build its indigenous economy. While the Minister of State indicates some increase in net jobs through Enterprise Ireland companies, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (10 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance the margins of error with regard to the Ipsos MRBI annual cigarette consumption surveys; and if the same margin applies in each of the past four years. [30429/14]

Order of Business (9 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Mar is eol don Taoiseach, tá úinéirí Greyhoud Recycling tar éis laghdú uafásach - 35% - a dhéanamh ar thuarastal na n-oibrithe. Tá siad tar éis iad a ghlasáil amach as an bhfoirgneamh freisin. Tá na hoibrithe tar éis cabhair iontach a thabhairt do na húinéirí go dtí seo. Ghlac siad le níos mó...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The workplace relations legislation. Deireann an comhlacht go bhfuil an LRC tar éis 35% a chinniúint, ach níl sé sin fíor. Given that this is so important and that the Taoiseach signed off on the legislation yesterday, which I welcome, can he commit to the House that it will be published before the end of this term? We have been waiting for it for three years. A...

Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach will be aware that Greyhound Recycling has decided unilaterally to cut the wages of its staff by 35%. The company has effectively locked its staff out of work. I am sure that like me the Taoiseach will find it unacceptable that this has happened, particularly considering that the workers and the representatives are fully engaged with the industrial relations mechanism.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I am speaking about the workplace relations Bill, which was supposed to be in place prior to the end of this term. Will the Taoiseach ensure that it is in place before the end of the next term? Despite that the workers and representatives are fully engaged with the industrial relations process the employer has thrashed their wages.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not working.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (8 Jul 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Student Universal Support Ireland has recently added the additional requirement of providing a copy of a passport with the multitude of other documentation provided by applicants including a PPS number, thereby adding an additional cost to parents. [29682/14]