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Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: That is disgusting.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the channel that will manage any future EU community led local development funding and LEADER funding; and if the proposed alignment of local government will impact on this. [28068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Application (12 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 44. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he expects local authorities to cover the cost of the local property tax on their social housing stock; and if he will issue a directive that local authority rents should not be raised as a result of the property tax bill. [27061/13]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that and in a previous discussion, the Minister of State displayed his desire to engage on these issues in a more open way. It would provide a window to the entire process and I will defer it until Report Stage.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 12: In page 6, line 8, after “subsection (1)” to insert the following:“by inserting, “and debated by either or both Houses of the Oireachtas” after “House of the Oireachtas” and ”. As has been discussed so far, the Bill provides for significant changes in the role and remit of SFI and includes the creation of the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: It is very clear that in cases where gender balance is not apparent on boards, there is a dearth of experience and knowledge and inputs that would make a positive benefit to the running of the boards. Sometimes it is a chicken and egg situation as to which comes first, the culture or the legislation. I believe legislation can change culture. It is incumbent on the Minister of State to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Perhaps Deputy Calleary could tell us a little more. I am not sure what is meant by this because as far as I understand, there are no all-Ireland research bodies established as part of the Good Friday Agreement. InterTradeIreland and Waterways Ireland do not necessarily have research body elements to them. Both of us are speaking from an all-Ireland basis and Deputy Calleary wants to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: We add our voices to that and support it. It is clear that gender balance improves the functioning of boards across the State and this is a good amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Much of the savings in administration come from the Croke Park agreement, etc. One of the points my party has always laboured is the differential between the payments of those in the upper grades as opposed to those in the lower grades. In Ireland, typically, the rate is 7.7%, meaning the multiple above that the upper grade earns. In Nordic countries, for example, it is approximately 3.1%.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Forgive me, 3.1 times is what I meant. Would it be possible to get a breakdown of what those multiples are within the Department, to see the kind of cost base involved? I understand the Minister is probably not able to give that information now but I am sure it is accessible.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: These are facts that may help us get a better understanding. Although much of the administration is from the Department each of the agencies also has its own administration so the administration of this Department may not be directly comparable with that of other Departments that may have fewer agencies delivering programmes. Would it be possible to get figures of administration costs per...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: This administration is purely the departmental kind, rather than the agencies' administration.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I am trying to get an understanding of the pay rates and scales in this Department and how they differ from those in other Departments.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Administration costs per person, for example, would give an average of the costs per person in the Department.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Not necessarily, because the administration costs would be more than the pay.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I am asking the Minister to separate all the agencies from the Department. As we see the figures here, the Department's administration is completely separate from the budgets and activities of the agencies.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I believe the lady over there understands what I am trying to say.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. I can work it out from there. Those three figures will allow me to work it out.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I accept the Minister and the Department are busy. The point I was trying to make in regard to the administration of the Department in its entirety was that there is a difference between being busy and outputs. Where I would have issues in regard to the Minister's work is in regard to outputs. He mentioned that the issue of job creation has not reached every door and I made the point that...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for the Public Services 2013
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (11 Jun 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: I am unsure as to whether the Minister referred to the ability of the Companies Registration Office to deal with the transition under the Companies Bill's new strictures. While I understand there will be a reduction in funds to allow for inspections by the Health and Safety Authority, that there were 48 deaths in 2012 underlines how critical it is we enforce standards in industry. The...