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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the grant aid or other payments made by his Department to Chambers Ireland, IBEC, ISME and the SFA for each of the past five years. [52173/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department or in bodies which fall under the remit of his Department whose annual remuneration including salary, pension and benefits at 31 December 2011 fell into bands of €400,000 and above, between €300,000 to €399,999, between €200,000 to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has made any contacts requesting staff whose annual salary is more than €200,000 in his Department or in any body under the remit of his Department, to waive 15% of their salary or such amount in excess of €200,000 whichever is the lesser; if he has, the date on which he first made this contact; the number of staff...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Application Numbers (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current number of outstanding applications for invalidity pension, broken down by months outstanding, the number of medical staff employed to conduct medical reviews and the number of additional staff deployed to clear the backlog. [52292/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a comprehensive set of supports will be in place for those affected by narcolepsy associated with the vaccine pandemrix; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52433/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail his contact with the SOUND group dealing with sufferers of narcolepsy associated with pandemrix; and any commitment made to the group [52434/12]

Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Last Monday, we took a trip to see approximately 25 businesses in County Donegal to get an understanding of their status. We were at an engineering firm on the Inishowen Peninsula, whose management made the point that the way in which Lean management and Lean manufacturing programmes are delivered through Enterprise Ireland is very awkward for them. They end up not accessing them from...

Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like to ask a question.

Other Questions: Retail Sector (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The Nevin Economic Research Institute has indicated 30,000 jobs have been lost in the retail and wholesale sectors in recent years and the knock-on effect of these losses in local areas has been greater than this. Some parts of the State and some retail sectors have experienced a lift in recent months, but the main streets of many provincial towns have a significant number of shops boarded...

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I welcome some of the changes the Government has introduced with regard to finance. The scale of the problem is that approximately €40 billion in private sector investment has come of the economy in recent years. The Government set up the credit guarantee scheme which cost it €6 million over three years. It is putting in €2 million on an annual basis through that scheme...

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: In the credit guarantee.

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like to ask a supplementary question.

Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I would like the Minister of State to address an important question. The Credit Review Office has overturned the decision in 55% of the applications it has received. It, by definition, is saying that in the sample size of the applications with which it is dealing there is a breakdown in more than half of the applications with which the banks are dealing. I believe that the Minister and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: It is not just me - it is the enterprise organisations.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Representatives of ISME and the SFA told the committee they were completely opposed to this.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Small businesses see the local authorities as cost centres, regarding planning applications, rates, enforcement etc. They do not regard local authorities as having a culture of enterprise. Representatives of the SFA and ISME have told the committee that it would be disastrous if this proceeds. The Minister of State has left it very late to consult these organisations, but given that he is...

Other Questions: Job Retention (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Leitrim has received one of the lowest levels of grant aid in the State, which is indicative of a bigger problem. Leitrim has not had a single IDA Ireland client company visit in the past three years. There is a swathe of rural counties that is not receiving any visits from IDA Ireland client companies. If they are not even receiving visits from these organisations, how in God's name are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made in the establishment of local enterprise offices including the role of individual Irish small and medium enterprises and SME representative groups as part of the committee overseeing the development of the local enterprise offices. [52082/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I was looking at the action plan for jobs recently and action 1.38 outlined that there would be a new system of strategic dialogue that will align funding of higher education institutions to performance in the achievement of national objectives for a system development and priorities in relation to skills development commencing in 2012 and it will be fully rolled out in the coming years....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (22 Nov 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: I make no apology for repeatedly asking this question. On both a human and economic level this is a disastrous situation for hundreds of thousands of people. While it is possible to select sub-groups or micro-elements in the economy where there has been some level of improvement, the general figures speak for themselves. The net job loss was 33,000. Given that the Department of Finance...