Results 15,121-15,140 of 16,686 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: I agree. Deputy Harrington made another point with regard to the Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal in private session. He suggested that we should get a briefing on the power and influence that can be brought to bear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Are the recommendations, as indicated, agreed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: That is the new recommendation to the effect that we are seeking to keep the petition open. Agreed. An chéad ceann eile is petition P00043/12 from Mr. Thomas Kevin Walshe concerning the back-to-education allowance. Members have been circulated with a summary note. The petitioner is entitled to €188 per week under the jobseeker's allowance but not entitled to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: The joint committee has received a total of 49 petitions to date since the launch of the petitions system. This shows the level of interest within general society in the issue of oversight of what is happening in society in general and, more specifically, the delivery of public services. We are trying our best to get through them with fewer resources than we would like. We are going...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: He cannot answer it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Does the Minister know the difference between the parliaments on both sides of the Border?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: You could have raised tax on higher incomes.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Emigration is going up too.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: It is a facts-free Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Earth to Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Reality is important.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: The Government reduced the local government grant.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Would the Taoiseach not even try a wealth tax?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: There are 70,000 emigrants a year.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total grants awarded by the Industrial Development Agency or other agency, to Intel for each year of the past 10 years; and the number employed by Intel for each of the past 10 years. [54620/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update in progress made to promote additional manufacturing and safeguard employment at the Leixlip site of Intel, County Kildare. [54621/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (5 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the purchase of sites adjacent to the Intel site is proceeding; and the date by which they will be completed. [54622/12]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Forthcoming Competitiveness Council: Discussion with Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: Ireland is an outlier with regard to the level of extra-state tendering. We win prizes for the level of tenders won in other European countries, compared to France and Germany in which a very small amount are won outside the state. We should not be happy to win that type of prize. We should be working really hard on the issue. It does not have to be a question of trying to protect...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Forthcoming Competitiveness Council: Discussion with Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: There is very little that is beyond the Minister's pay grade.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Forthcoming Competitiveness Council: Discussion with Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Dec 2012)
Peadar Tóibín: It may sound like a strange thing to say and I mean no disrespect to anyone here, but this is similar to the last meeting we held with the Minister in that there are 14 public servants here and seven elected representatives. Often I wonder whether it is the best use of people's time to have so many people here now. It is important that we get answers to all the questions we ask at these...