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County Enterprise Boards (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: There is no doubt that enterprises that have business plans and research carried out at the very start of their experience are more likely to exist in five years time and their productivity is also much more likely to be higher. One of the major problems is at a time of the biggest jobs crisis in the State we have an infrastructure around the State, the county enterprise boards system, most...

County Enterprise Boards (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: What will be done at this crisis time to ensure that people who have feasible business ideas that would create indigenous jobs will get the funding they need this year?

Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the number of families and persons his proposals for the reform of the joint labour commissions and registered employment agreements will push into poverty as defined in the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007 – 2016; the number of new jobs that will be created; if these new jobs will be outside or inside the...

Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: In an earlier debate the Minister, Deputy Noonan, stated in jovial form that one of his colleagues had to bring his payslip with him to the local bar in his pocket to prove to the people in the pub that he was struggling himself. I realise the statement was made in humour but it is important to note that the average Deputy's wage at the moment is nine times the average JLC wage. Roughly...

Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a question. Several individuals will be pushed into poverty. Standards and criteria exist under which one judges what constitutes poverty. The question asked how many people will be pushed into poverty on this issue. I have not heard the answer to the question and I call on the Minister to address it.

Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: To implement something such as this there must be two criteria: it must create jobs and it must not push people into poverty. There are some 100,000 working poor in the State. Having a job in itself provides no insulation against poverty. Models exist within the Department of Finance into which Ministers, such as Deputy Bruton, can input figures which give readings of what job creation is...

Enterprise Support Services (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he has a State wide policy for small business; if he has developed a State wide comprehensive entrepreneurial development programme; and if the necessary funding is in place until the end of this year to meet the grant funding demands of viable start-up businesses. [14997/11]

Enterprise Support Services (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Through my engagement with enterprise stakeholders throughout the State in recent months I have seen the fear among them that the Government may not have bought into the idea of entrepreneurship and that policy is not being generated around the needs of entrepreneurs. There is also concern regarding the transfer of enterprise responsibilities from Údarás na Gaeltachta, for example, to...

Enterprise Support Services (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: On a related topic, I received a letter from the Office of the Ceann Comhairle during the week informing me that two questions of mine had been disallowed. These questions related to certain pre-election promises of the parties of Government and whether they would be implemented. The letter stated, "The Minister has no official responsibility to Dáil Éireann for these matters." As a...

European Space Programme (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the Minister of State for his reply which has covered most of the information I requested. Given the Minister of State's new-found insight into the problems the country is experiencing, has he considered using the services provided by the European Space Agency?

Business Regulation (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the estimated fall in spending power due to the reduced demand as a result of the proposed reduction in the pay rates of the joint labour committee. [14711/11]

Business Regulation (9 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the cost to the State in terms of the reduction of taxation received and the increase of outgoing welfare payments as a result of the proposed reduction in the pay rates of the joint labour committee. [14710/11]

Written Answers — Teacher Training: Teacher Training (8 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the professional development service for teachers support service provides all documentation, handouts, booklets, leaflets and resources in both Irish and English; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14446/11]

Teaching Qualifications (8 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Professional Development Service for Teachers trainers do not have adequate Irish language skills to support school planning and in-school mentoring in Gaelscoileanna; and the reason, unless training is undertaken in English, that it is impossible for a Gaelscoil to have a mentor in the classroom. [14447/11]

Written Answers — Tax Reliefs: Tax Reliefs (7 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, according to the 2009 ESRI research series No. 14 on pension policy, 82% of all pension tax relief goes to the top 20% of income earners; his views on the accuracy of this figure; and his further views that this is an appropriate outcome of his current pension tax relief policy. [14234/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (7 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance his view on whether the cost of the pension levy should not be passed on to savers by their pension fund managers; and the steps he will take to ensure that this does not happen. [14233/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (7 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance the analysis he has carried out of the common consolidated corporate tax base proposal; the effect this proposal will have on enterprise and inward investment if it is adopted here; the effect this proposal will have on enterprise and inward investment if it is adopted not here but in other European states; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (2 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amounts spent by Irish Aid in the years 2006 to 2010 on programmes aimed at preventing the spread of the HIV virus, treating persons infected by the virus, supporting persons and communities affected by AIDS and supporting universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support; the amount of that...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (2 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the ongoing business relationship between the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with the state of Bahrain at a time when many human rights organisations are deeply concerned regarding the treatment and imprisonment of medical staff in Bahrain for apparently carrying out their duties as doctors and...

Written Answers — Tourism Promotion: Tourism Promotion (1 Jun 2011)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 220: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will agree to meet a group of residents and elected representatives in County Meath to discuss the potential of developing a cycle and walking track along the historic Boyne River. [13697/11]