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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (6 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he intends to streamline the process of grants payments to avoid delays to farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27914/11]

Patents (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (6 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis seo labhairt ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo inniu. The Bill may have a bigger impact on Irish innovation and potential investors than some may realise. Its aim is to make the State party to the London agreement. The Bill aims to reduce the cost of patenting by amending the State's Patents Act 1992. The proposed legislation will reduce costs by ending the need...

Patents (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (6 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Her time is half up already.

Written Answers — Banking Sector Remuneration: Banking Sector Remuneration (5 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the remuneration cap for bank officials will not be breached during his term of office including the recent application from Allied Irish Bank. [27663/11]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (5 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an accurate figure of the total number of non-life insurance policyholders to which the new insurance compensation fund levy of 2% will apply. [27664/11]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (4 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken in pursuit of justice for a person (details supplied) who is currently imprisoned in Mexico, sentenced initially to 92 years and later reduced to 61 years, and who has been refused repatriation to France to serve their sentence, even though this is admissible under European Rights law. [27324/11]

Written Answers — State Banking Sector: State Banking Sector (4 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Finance the action that he has taken to assist in the establishment of a strategic investment bank as outlined in the Programme for Government. [21149/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (4 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 295: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rents paid for the 129 properties leased by the Office of Public Works under upward-only rent review clauses for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. [27393/11]

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (4 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will ensure that within Forfás there will be sufficient credible sectorial data on start-up businesses, survival rates over time, a multi-year tracking of a sample of new firms over time to learn from their progress or lack of it, the impediments to growth and getting value added before a firm is acquired by a...

International Agreements (4 Oct 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will define the state of his preparation in advance of the Rio Summit in 2012 and the Millennium Development Goals Review Conference in 2013; and if he will clarify his goals for these two key events. [27323/11]

Written Answers — Cycle Facilities: Cycle Facilities (29 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop a cycle path in the Boyne Valley between Trim and Drogheda; the way he plans to promote such initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26507/11]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (29 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue the State is raising on average a month from road tolls. [26568/11]

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (29 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the mid-west task force was established, following the job losses suffered in Limerick due to the closure of manufacturing by Dell computers in January 2009, charged with analysing the impact of the resulting significant job losses for the region, with making recommendations...

Employment and National Internship Scheme: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: It is exactly seven months since the Government took office. In that period, an extra 25,144 people have signed on the live register and, going by ESRI figures, 29,166 people emigrated. That is a shocking figure of over 50,000 people, with 1,667 people signing on or leaving every week, something that has an unbelievably negative effect on the country. So far the Government's answer to the...

Employment and National Internship Scheme: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: That information is incorrect.

Written Answers — Missing Persons: Missing Persons (27 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to her previous parliamentary question reply of 12 July 2011, the progress she has made in conjunction with the Department of Justice and Equality in establishing the promised missing children's hotline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26078/11]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 21 July 2011, regarding the 17 new schools promised for Dublin, the number of same that are primary and post primary where these schools will be located; when same will be built and the criteria used in reaching a decision. [25743/11]

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (27 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total worth, in euros, of public procurement contracts in central and local government in 2010 and 2011; the worth of those contracts granted to Irish companies and the worth of those granted to foreign companies. [25719/11]

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (27 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the worth of public procurement contracts for central and local government in 2010 and 2011 that were granted to Irish companies that employ ten persons or fewer; and the worth of public contracts granted to companies that employ ten persons or more. [25720/11]

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (27 Sep 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 188: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made on amending procurement procedures to enable contracts to be broken down to allow small and medium indigenous businesses to tender for Government projects, and to include social clauses to promote the employment and training up of local labour. [25853/11]