Results 15,061-15,080 of 16,686 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (20 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding charges by certain doctors for medical examinations and subsequent reports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57539/12]
- Other Questions: Medicinal Products (19 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to secure reductions in the current cost of generic equivalents, which are high by international comparisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57029/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (19 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Health the consideration he has given to the proposal to benchmark the ex-factory price of medicines at the lowest rather than the average of comparable European states; if he accepts that this is the practice in a number of other EU member states; if he accepts the projected savings figure cited of €280m; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57028/12]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Discussion with Chairman Designate (18 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Basically Mr. Walsh is saying that it is more of a cultural problem and individuals are part of that culture and to separate them from the culture would not be useful in the long run.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Discussion with Chairman Designate (18 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Would it be possible for us as a committee to have regular meetings with the authority to discuss how things are proceeding, etc., and to have annual reports as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Discussion with Chairman Designate (18 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: I wish Mr. Brendan Walsh the best of luck in his new role. As he has worked as a professor in national economics for many years he would have witnessed some of the peaks and troughs in the past. That is why I was anxious to get the point across that we need to use an institution that is structured to ensure the next trough is reduced. He made the point that most of this has happened...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: How could auditors be held to account for their role in the banking crisis, for example, and how could we be assured that the situation which we have just experienced, which is the biggest crisis with which we as elected representatives have to contend, will not happen again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas do na finnéithe as an chur i láthair chruinn sin. In response to a point made by Mr. Houlihan, it is probably the job of Government to make sure that the worst excesses of the cyclical nature of the economy are reduced and that it uses all the financial tools necessary to reduce those swings in the cyclical nature. This is possibly one of the tools that can...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (18 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail on a county basis the spend on developing and maintaining cycle routes for each of the past three years. [56741/12]
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: They have been published.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: There are 20,000 fewer jobs.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2013 (13 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact the recent changes in Budget 2013 will have on a school (details supplied) in County Meath, including changes to overall budget, staffing levels including student teacher ratio, and support to students with special needs. [56023/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (13 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the grants, loans or other payments to made to Chambers Ireland, Irish Small and Medium Enterprises, the Irish Business and Employers Federation and the Small Firms' Association on an annual basis made by his Department from 2001 to 2006; and if he will list any loan repayment from these bodies to his Department. [56077/12]
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: InterTradeIreland has not received any increase in its funding.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Some 300 businesses are closing on a weekly basis. That is what is called mayhem.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: The Labour Party broke its promises.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Exporting people, through emigration.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Is that the Government?
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Present and reporting for duty.
- Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Is the Minister speaking about himself?