Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Job Initiatives

Peadar Tóibín

276. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total funds that are available in the stimulus plan announced on 17 July 2012; the amount that has been spent; what it has been spent on; the number of jobs that have been created as a result; the amount that has been left unspent; and the plans regarding same. [42315/13]

IDA Site Visits

Peadar Tóibín

288. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency visits here in 2012; the way the figure compares to each of the past five years; the average cost of these visits in 2012 and for each of the past five years; the conversion rate for these visits for each of the past five years; the staff numbers and cost of Industrial Development Agency offices located abroad for 2012 and each of the past five years; the work that has been done with other enterprise development organisations on the island of Ireland to create efficiencies and savings within these foreign offices; the number of IDA visits to each county here for 2012 and each of the past five years and the individual county conversion rates for those years. [42304/13]

Companies Statistics

Peadar Tóibín

289. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland high potential start ups that occurred here in 2012; the way the figure compares to each of the past five years; the average cost of these start ups for 2012 and for each of the past five years; the attrition rate of each of these high potential start ups for the past five years; the staff numbers and cost of each Enterprise Ireland office located abroad for 2012 and the past five years; and the work that has been done with other enterprise development organisations on the island of Ireland to create efficiencies and savings within these foreign offices. [42306/13]

Companies Statistics

Peadar Tóibín

290. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland supported firms in each county here for 2012 and each of the past five years; the Enterprise Ireland investment figure for each county in 2012 and for each of the past five years; and the annual employment totals for Enterprise Ireland supported companies in each county for 2012 and each of the past five years. [42307/13]

Companies Statistics

Peadar Tóibín

291. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland HPSU in each county here for 2012 and each of the past five years; the Enterprise Ireland HPSU investment figure for each county in 2012 and for each of the past five years; and the annual employment totals for Enterprise Ireland HPSU companies in each county for 2012 and each of the past five years. [42308/13]

Ministerial Meetings

Peadar Tóibín

41. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance if he will detail the outcomes from his series of meetings in Northern Ireland on Friday, 27 September; the persons he met and the content of his discussions. [41512/13]

Tax Code

Peadar Tóibín

99. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance if he has or will put in place a tax break for families who have outgrown their current home or have had to move in order to work (details supplied); if there is legislation pending to provide assistance to those in negative equity who have no other means to exit their unsuitable domiciliary situation.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41310/13]

Ambulance Service Provision

Peadar Tóibín

249. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the Health Information and Quality Authority does not receive or publish key performance indicators on a regional basis regarding the delivery of the ambulance service, and this means that the management of the service cannot see or respond to regional variances in service provision, if he will instruct HIQA to collect and publish these KPIs. [41272/13]

Child Care Services Inspections

Peadar Tóibín

605. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of staff who are employed in each county as child care facilities inspectors; the number of new staff who have been employed in each county by the Health Service Executive as child care facilities' inspectors since the Prime Time Investigates exposé entitled A Breach of Trust in view of the fact that new legislation will strengthen regulations in this sector; and the number of new staff who will be employed to inspect these new regulations. [40931/13]

Housing Assistance Payments Implementation

Peadar Tóibín

104. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a commitment as to when the transfer of responsibility for rent supplement to local authorities will be complete; and if he will provide an update on the work needed to achieve this. [33783/13]

Job Losses

Peadar Tóibín

116. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the number of net job losses in the economy for each year from 2006 to 2013. [34710/13]

Income Data

Peadar Tóibín

117. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the average weekly income in the south of Ireland in comparison with Northern Ireland and Britain for the most recent five years for which information is available. [34727/13]

Exports Data

Peadar Tóibín

118. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the total value of exports for the most recent five years for which data are available by sector and by destination. [35306/13]

Productivity Levels

Peadar Tóibín

468. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the productivity performance of the manufacturing sector here in comparison with that of Northern Ireland for the past ten years for which data are available. [35305/13]

Trade Data

Peadar Tóibín

469. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total value of exports to the North of Ireland and imports from the North of Ireland for the most recent five years. [35307/13]

Invalidity Pension Applications

Peadar Tóibín

522. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the position on an application for an invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will reverse this decision and in the future ensure all such decisions are transparent in order that citizens know the grounds on which they have been turned down. [34661/13]

Departmental Programmes

Peadar Tóibín

916. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications under the immigrant investor programme and the start-up entrepreneur programme since the programmes were opened to applications; the number of pending applications; the number of successful applications; and the value of investments made under each programme. [35097/13]

Health Services Issues

Peadar Tóibín

1086. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive to change the way it processes medical treatment for children on medical cards who also have school insurance in order that costs of treatment can be covered at source rather than claimed back by the patient. [34742/13]

Youth Unemployment Measures

Peadar Tóibín

2. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the achievements made by his Department in increasing the number of young persons in employment. [33596/13]

Enterprise Support Services Provision

Peadar Tóibín

5. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact departmental policies are having on encouraging enterprises and creating employment in the current recession. [33597/13]