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Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I will share time with my colleagues. I will take eight minutes, with Deputy Stanley taking three minutes and Deputy Ó Caoláin taking approximately four minutes.

Commercial Rates: Motion (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: The protection and promotion of indigenous industry is key to economic growth and employment. Our local businesses, manufacturers, technology companies, services sectors and retailers are bearing the brunt of the economic downturn. The trading environment in the last number of years has been unparalleled and we are now facing into a further European recession. This extended period of...

Written Answers — Interest Rates: Interest Rates (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts he has made to ensure that reductions in the ECB interest rate are passed on to the end user in the business community. [36215/11]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, following the transfer of the role of transport liaison officer from the vocational education committees to Bus Éireann, if he will confirm which body is now responsible for setting the annual fare for the school transport system. [36084/11]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students negatively affected by changes to the rules for transport catchment areas. [36085/11]

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of public tenders for the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011. [35797/11]

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of public tenders awarded to Irish companies for the years 2008, 2009, 2010. [35798/11]

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of public tenders awarded to non-Irish companies for the years 2008, 2009, 2010. [35799/11]

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value of public tenders to small, medium and large Irish companies for the years 2009, 2010. [35801/11]

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: While many words were used, the question was not answered. It would have been answered in four syllables, namely, 30,000, the number of jobs that would be created if an additional €3.1 billion per annum was available. For example, the Government could reinstate the sum of €750 million it took out and could make Ireland's broadband services the best in the world with the expenditure in...

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not know whether the Leas-Cheann Comhairle saw the RTE television programme, "Arrivals", last night. It provides an example of the generation that has been lost to the country owing to the choices being made by the Government to divert funds from capital expenditure to Anglo Irish Bank, etc.

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: My party believes in paying back sovereign debt. It is paying private debt with which we do not agree. Moreover, the European Investment Bank has been tasked with giving funds to states such as Ireland and the amount of money outlined in Sinn Féin's pre-budget submission is allowed for, given the level of the State's GDP. I have a single question pertaining to the funds taken from Tara...

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: They want the Government to force the administrators not to do this.

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Here we are, roughly eight months into the new Administration, and the situation is that 440,000 people are unemployed and 70,000 are emigrating annually. It is important that the lives of the individuals who are forced out of this country are understood, which was very well demonstrated in the RTE programme "Arrivals" last night. This situation is the result of the lack of focus on jobs....

Job Creation (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I mentioned the Bord Gáis contract because it is an example of a contract that will edge out small suppliers and one on which the Cabinet can have an effect. Will the Minister seek to change the policy direction in which that Bord Gáis contract is developed?

Economic Competitiveness (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail an assessment of the cost to our competitiveness and employment levels of the continued implementation of upward only rent agreements. [35939/11]

Economic Competitiveness (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Upward-only rents affect competitiveness and raise the costs for end-user consumers. There is also a cost in jobs for the State. Approximately 250,000 people work in the retail sector in the State and it is estimated that approximately 46,000 people have lost jobs in the retail sector in recent years. It is reckoned that approximately 50,000 jobs in the retail sector are in serious danger...

Economic Competitiveness (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I have done a little research on the Government's expenditure and my understanding is that, through the OPW, it pays approximately €98 million in rent a year. Approximately €55 million of the rent paid by the Government is paid on an upward-only basis. It is estimated that the current decrease in rent in the private sector is approximately 30% in the past three years. If the Government...

Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Cloud computing is based on the power of the networks in this State. Ireland is 79th in the world, or 24th out of the EU, for upload speeds and we are 49th in the world, or 23rd in the EU, for download speeds. It is estimated that an investment of €2.5 billion will be needed to bring our broadband services to the top of the table. Without this level of investment, the Minister of State's...

Cloud Computing (22 Nov 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: They are from the IrelandOffline Quarterly Report.