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Other Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: No doubt there has been a reliance on foreign direct investment by the Government for job creation. We welcome foreign direct investment and all that can be done to ensure foreign direct investment is brought to the State should be done. It is worth noting that the multiplier effect from foreign direct investment creates 0.7 new jobs for each job that is directly created and these are also...

Other Questions: Illegal Immigrants (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The reaction of the Houses to this issue appears hypocritical sometimes when contrasted with the reaction of Members to the undocumented Irish working in the USA. We focus on the rights of Irish people but do not necessarily afford the same rights to migrants working here. It is a massive problem for those who are forced to work in the grey areas, many of whom are exploited because...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: What timescale is the Government working to?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Some 3,000 jobs have been created in two years.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The size of the problem far exceeds the efforts of the Government.

Other Questions: IDA Supports (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: How do the new regulations affect our competitiveness in attracting foreign direct investment and supporting our own businesses in comparison to other EU countries? How does it affect our capacity to compete with other locations for foreign direct investment, such as Singapore? Some counties within existing regions do not experience the same level of investment. For example, Meath does...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact departmental policies are having on encouraging enterprises and creating employment in the current recession. [33597/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I meet skilled and experienced people on a daily basis who, through no fault of their own, find themselves unemployed. In many cases, their self-worth has been crushed. I meet families who are struggling in extremely difficult situations, trying to pay the electricity and heating bills and keep the roof over their heads. I meet people who tell me, through their tears, about the children...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the Minister of State advising the 400,000 people on the live register to buy the newspaper?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government can choose to focus on a month here or there or some other time span to bolster its argument that change is happening and that we have turned the corner. In reality, however, when one looks at the two and a half year period in which the Government has been in office, the trend is clear. The figures are also clear when one examines initiatives such as the credit guarantee...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Services Provision (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The Minister of State is being very selective in what he chooses to highlight.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Yesterday at committee I mentioned to the Minister that the issue of jobs was a central platform of the Government when it stood for election in 2011. On every occasion Fine Gael has gone to the country in the past five or six years, be it for an election or referendum, the issue of jobs has been central. However, we are still struggling to deal with the issue of the creation of jobs. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Unemployment stabilised ten months before the Government came into power, but it has remained at the bottom since. The Minister can pick a couple of months here and there and use those statistics to try to argue in favour of his policies. However, from 2011 to 2013, the period of the Government's Administration, there has been a major net fall in the level of young people employed and in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: These are the facts and figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Unemployment Measures (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the achievements made by his Department in increasing the number of young persons in employment. [33596/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Like all Members present, I believe in every single case where people’s lives are threatened, they should receive every medical treatment necessary to save their lives and that there should never be any confusion whatsoever about this within the system and that where there is confusion, the necessary guidelines should be put in place to ensure the medical professionals have all the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: There is so little time that many of the amendments under discussion will have no opportunity for success owing to the fact that they are outside the constitutional limits. I have a worry that there may be an effort to filibuster affecting the opportunity to have the amendments that have an opportunity under the Constitution discussed.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I will make a few brief points. The 1992 and 2002 referenda were defeated by both the pro-choice and pro-life campaigns and it is a brave person who will interpret the message of Ivana Bacik and Dana when they speak with one voice on an abortion campaign. This legislation allows for the State to disable a child without any basis in medical evidence. It is difficult to say this, but a...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I genuinely believe every single Deputy in this Chamber has come to his or her view on the basis of compassion and justice, no matter what their perspective is. I also believe we enter dangerous waters when we decouple health policy from peer reviewed medical evidence. In a matter of life and death, if it is a choice between the strident voices in this Chamber and the medical expertise of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (10 Jul 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of additional jobs he expects to be created by the establishment of the €375,000 Enterprise Ireland competitive feasibility fund. [33490/13]