Results 14,501-14,520 of 16,686 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Earth to cuckoo land.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: That was a fact-free contribution.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: The Deputy should ask her constituents.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: We did.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: We are abstentionists.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Why does Deputy Anthony Lawlor not stand for election in Castlereagh? He would not get one vote.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: And emigration.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: Not for the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: The Taoiseach should answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)
Peadar Tóibín: That is a disgrace.
- 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.