Results 14,641-14,660 of 16,686 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 118. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the €1.25 million VAT cash receipts accounting threshold in view of the small number of companies that can benefit from the change in Budget 2013. [23948/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Sector (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail proposals from his Department as to the way in which the banking sector can address the overhang of property debt that is impacting on viable small medium enterprises. [18612/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Sector (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact that the legacy of impaired property loans is having on the small and medium enterprise sector. [18613/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the occasions when he has raised directly with the banks their failure to deal with lending to the small and medium enterprise sector; and if he has provided advice to the economic management group to direct the banks to increase lending to SMEs. [18611/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprise Sector (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance the initiatives that his Department has put in place in order to assist businesses who are among those with €25 billion worth of impaired loans. [19132/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprise Sector (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to ensure that all enterprises have access to affordable credit. [18626/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Job Initiatives (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected impact on job creation in the short to medium term of the proposed €6 billion stimulus package. [19133/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 7 May 2013, the number of press enquiries dealt with by the public relations company; the number of press releases issued; the number of media briefings organised and hourly rate and total hours paid for public relations services, for each year 2010, 2011 and 2012. [24051/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Numbers (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of press officers employed by his Department; the grades of same; and the overall cost of the press relations for his Department. [24052/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Numbers (21 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration was given to shared press office services between his Department and agencies under its remit. [24053/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Everybody here believes that in every case everything must be done to save the life of the mother, regardless of what side of the debate one takes. There are no ifs, buts or doubts about that. Many people are of the view, and they agree with the psychiatric evidence and the advice, that this should be done with a two patients solution, that both patients must be saved in that scenario. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes. I have a heavy cold so I probably asked the question very badly. My question was addressed to Professor McAuliffe. She predicted that there would be a very low number of individuals who would need this type of treatment in the cases of suicidality. We heard at similar hearings here in January that prediction accuracy for suicide is about 3%. Given that the legislation identifies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Much divides Members in the Houses, but much also joins them together. We all agree that mothers need more supports to help them to make the right choices for themselves and their children. This morning, Dr. Holohan stated - I hope that I am citing him correctly - that this Bill was a significant change from the status quo. There is no precedent for the treatment for suicidality to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: The first question was whether there was a precedence for damage being done to another human being as a treatment for suicide in legislation in this State. The second question was about defining viability and what rights a child would have if the State was to disable the child by bringing him or her to term as a premature child.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: What about the disability of child?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: We are being told this legislation is not really new. Is there a precedent in legislation to deal with damage done to another human being as a result of treatment for suicidality? Is the Bill a new legal departure for the State? Head 4 refers to the viability of the unborn child. Will the Bill provide for a definition of viability? I refer to the issue of women disabled by...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (16 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the suspected use of chemical weapons by Government and opposition forces in Syria; and if he has discussed this with his European counterparts. [23227/13]

Good Friday Agreement: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: Tá Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta tógtha ar comhionannas agus cuimsiú. D'átháin Comhaontú Aoine an Céasta dé-shaoránacht agus féiniúlacht muintir an Sé Chontae. Tá cearta teanga mar cuid lárnach den Comhaontú agus gheall an Chomhaontú an Gaeilge a chosaint. Riomh an Comhaontú rinne an stáit sa...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Bodies (15 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impact assessments he requires agencies under his control to under go when implementing cutbacks resulting from plans and budgetary measures put in place by his Department; and if these include the potential threat of industrial action. [22904/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: 94. To ask the Minister for Health the range of mental health services available for adults, adolescents and children across the Dublin/North East Region; if he will outline plans for further developments already signed off on but yet to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22570/13]