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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Development (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The changeover from the county enterprise boards system is a substantial move. I agree that some local authorities, including my own in County Laois, have been very active in the areas of job creation and assisting small employment projects through the development of enterprise centres and other supports. The concern is that there seems to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Economic Development (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government recently suggested that tensions exist between State agencies and Government Departments over this proposal. Is there tension and has it been resolved?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Statistics (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created and the number of jobs lost in Industrial Development Agency and Enterprise Ireland supported companies in counties Laois and Offaly for the year 2012. [9407/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Statistics (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The reason I tabled the question is because of figures I received a month ago on the number of jobs created and lost in Laois and Offaly. I did not believe the figures when I first saw them. The Minister outlined that two new jobs were created in Laois in IDA-supported companies while 23 jobs were lost. Enterprise Ireland created 76 jobs in Laois while 138 jobs were lost. There have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Statistics (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: There were no visits to Laois.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Statistics (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: On the three units-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Statistics (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: Could the Minister inform me of the location of the three proposed new IDA units? There is a target of 50% foreign direct investment to be located outside of Dublin and Cork. Currently, the level is 35% nationally but Laois and Offaly are much lower than that.

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: This Bill underpins six austerity budgets, the most recent of which is having a devastating affect on low and middle income families and services. The policies of this Government - of which we have seen more in the past week - continue to sow the seeds of industrial arrest, in particular in Laois-Offaly, where there are many prison officers, gardaí, hospital workers, attendants and so...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: We did. The Minister of State and I can have that discussion another day.

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The figures provided are based on information from departmental officials. It is up to the Minister of State if he wants to accuse those officials of lying. I will not do so because I do not believe it is true.

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: We are not saying we have all of the solutions.

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: Our submission was solution-based. It was put forward in an attempt to assist the Government in achieving savings and introducing fair tax proposals that would assist it in meeting the budget deficit target. Sinn Féin agrees with Government on the need to close that gap. This gap must be closed. Our proposals were made in an honest way. The difference between our proposals and what...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Tánaiste is scoring an own goal.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Regulation (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts he has made to reduce the cost of doing business in the past two years. [9066/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU State Aid Negotiations (21 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail his position with regards the upcoming EU State Aid negotiations; if he will seek to redress employment inequalities by increasing and targeting State aid in the future. [9065/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (20 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the matter which were discussed when he met Bill Gates recently; and if there are any new partnerships between Irish Aid or Irish aid agencies and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation expected. [8846/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (20 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the assassination of a Tunisian secular opposition leader; his views that Tunisia’s democracy is now under threat; and if he has discussed the matter with the Tunisian Ambassador accredited to Ireland. [8845/13]

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: There has been a constant crisis in housing for decades. We in Sinn Féin believe there is a fundamental right to housing. Other parties might not agree but we are marked out tonight in our belief that people have absolute rights that are non-negotiable: the right from the cradle to the grave to a home, education and health. In any civilised society those rights should be fundamental...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount the State paid in subsidies to toll operators due to low traffic numbers in 2012; the projected cost of these subsidies for 2013; and the work he has done to renegotiate these subsidies. [8579/13]

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Doyle indicated that there were those who had stated that a substantially altered deal on the promissory notes could not be done. There were others who stated that such a deal should not be done. Sinn Féin said that it should be done. However, the fact is that a substantially altered deal has not been done. The debt relating to the former Anglo Irish Bank has not gone away and...