Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Job Creation

Peadar Tóibín

44. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is on track to create the additional 100,000 extra jobs as committed to in the action plans for jobs. [41824/12]

Local Enterprise Offices Remit

Peadar Tóibín

47. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline when the new local enterprise offices will be established and operational. [41825/12]

Wage-setting Mechanisms

Peadar Tóibín

71. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he has carried out research into the effect of the dissolution of the Sunday premium on the working poor. [41594/12]

Economic Competitiveness

Peadar Tóibín

76. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he has analysed the cost structure of Irish business and developed methods of reducing the cost base to allow businesses create jobs. [41593/12]

National Minimum Wage

Peadar Tóibín

89. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach the number of workers currently employed, by sector, with a remuneration level equal to the national minimum wage. [41250/12]

Joint Labour Committees Agreements

Peadar Tóibín

227. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the number of workers employed, by sector, in contracts governed by Joint Labour Committee agreements. [41251/12]

Social Welfare Code

Peadar Tóibín

310. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the social welfare supports available for a former self employed citizen who is sinking into poverty. [41919/12]

Health Services Staff Issues

Peadar Tóibín

513. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if he will inform this Deputy of the future of the district health nurse for the Drumcondrath area, County Meath [41294/12]

Hospital Bed Data

Peadar Tóibín

43. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the current in-patient bed capacity in the North-East region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41006/12]

Primary Care Centres Provision

Peadar Tóibín

68. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the progress made, if any, in the development of primary care centres in each case at Kells, Laytown/Bettystown and Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41005/12]

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Capital

Peadar Tóibín

46. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the amount of funding held within the Strategic Investment Funds; the level of fund earmarked for particular projects; and the amount of funds spent to date from the SIF on infrastructure projects. [40796/12]

Departmental Agencies Issues

Peadar Tóibín

171. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the size and strength of the Industrial Development Agency mission to Australia in terms of funds, personnel and offices. [40296/12]

Job Creation

Peadar Tóibín

176. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide each jobs announcement welcomed by his Department since August 2009, the numbers employed by the relevant company at that time, the expected increase in employment at the time of announcement, and the numbers employed in each company at August 2012.
[40394/12]

Job Creation

Peadar Tóibín

177. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide each jobs announcement supported by the Industrial Development Agency since August 2009, the numbers employed by the relevant company at that time, the expected increase in employment at the time of announcement, and the numbers employed in each company at August 2012. [40395/12]

Job Creation

Peadar Tóibín

178. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide each jobs announcement supported by Enterprise Ireland since August 2009, the numbers employed by the relevant company at that time, the expected increase in employment at the time of announcement, and the numbers employed in each company at August 2012. [40396/12]

Job Vacancies

Peadar Tóibín

179. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a projection of the number of posts that will be filled by recruits from here to the jobs recently announced by Electronic Arts in Galway. [40397/12]

Job Vacancies

Peadar Tóibín

180. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the number of unemployed people with the necessary skills to fill the new posts announced by Electronic Arts in Galway. [40398/12]

Job Creation

Peadar Tóibín

181. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide for each jobs announcement supported by the Industrial Development Agency since August 2009, the cost of that support and the cost per additional job realised to the IDA. [40399/12]

Local Authority Housing Insurance

Peadar Tóibín

1024. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a situation in which local authority tenants are unable to get house insurance because they are not owners of the dwelling; if his further attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby local authority tenants are liable for non-structural damage including burst pipes but because they cannot get house insurance they are liable for severe costs should damage occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37028/12]

Garda Resources

Peadar Tóibín

1164. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the staffing levels at a Garda station (details supplied) in County Westmeath as of 15 July; his plans for the staffing levels at the station; if there has been any reduction in Garda vehicles in the area; if Garda vehicles have been given a larger area of responsibility; his plans for Garda stations at Finea and Rathowen, County Westmeath. [37159/12]

Cross-Border Training Initiatives

Peadar Tóibín

139 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills the potential savings that can be made through the implementation of joint training courses for the unemployed in Border areas which are tailored to specific sectorial needs and potential growth areas.
[36824/12]

Higher Education Institutions

Peadar Tóibín

233 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills the potential savings that can be made through enhanced co-operation and sharing of resources between higher education institutions North and South.
[36821/12]

Public Procurement

Peadar Tóibín

284 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his assessment of the potential savings that can be made through an all-island approach to the procurement and tendering for the supply of Government goods and services.
[36814/12]

Cross-Border Enterprise Initiatives

Peadar Tóibín

318 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the potential savings that can be made through an all-island approach to economic development and job creation.
[36823/12]

Cross-Border Training Initiatives

Peadar Tóibín

319 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the potential savings that can be made through the implementation of joint promotion of labour activation measures which are tailored to specific sectorial needs and potential growth areas.
[36824/12]

Irish Language

Peadar Tóibín

409 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the potential savings that can be made through the implementation of an all-island Irish language strategy.
[36818/12]

Single Energy Market

Peadar Tóibín

438 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the potential savings that can be made through an all-island approach to energy provision.
[36820/12]

Water Services

Peadar Tóibín

541 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the potential savings that can be made through an all-island approach to water treatment.
[36819/12]

Homelessness Strategy

Peadar Tóibín

542 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the potential savings that can be made through an all-island approach to homelessness.
[36825/12]

Cross-Border Co-operation

Peadar Tóibín

624 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the potential savings that can be made through an all-island approach to policing and community safety.
[36822/12]

Health Service Reform

Peadar Tóibín

797 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the potential savings that can be made through all-island approaches to healthcare in orthopaedic surgery, ear, nose and throat surgery, paediatric cardiac surgery, cystic fibrosis, acute mental health services, cross-Border out of hours general practitioner services and emergency services.
[36815/12]

Tourism Promotion

Peadar Tóibín

808 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the potential savings that can be made through the implementation of an all-island tourism promotion and marketing strategy.
[36817/12]

Íocaíochtaí Deontas

Peadar Tóibín

2 Deputy Peadar Tóibín den an Aire Ealaíon; Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an féidir leis an Aire a dheimhniú go mbeidh na deontais reáchtála a íoctar leis na comharchumainn Ghaeltachta ar an leibhéal céanna an bhliain seo chugainn nó níos airde i bhfianaise an ualaigh breise oibre a bheidh orthu ó thaobh pleanáil teanga de. [35035/12]

Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla

Peadar Tóibín

22

D’fhiafraigh Peadar Tóibín den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén uair a fhoilseofar an t-athbhreithniú ar Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla.
[35022/12]

National Cultural Institutions

Peadar Tóibín

33 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the fact that the recent Euro Barometer Aggregate Report 2011 on Well Being ranks culture as number 8 out of 9 factors that contribute to well-being alongside the economy, civic life and the environment, his plans to ensure that culture and heritage is utilised to transform our cities and towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[35430/12]

Capital Expenditure

Peadar Tóibín

122 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of capital spending by the Exchequer for each of the last ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[35530/12]

Capital Expenditure

Peadar Tóibín

123 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated total level of capital spending by the Exchequer for 2012.
[35531/12]

Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare

Peadar Tóibín

37 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the report commissioned by Mandate Trade Union, Decent Work; the impact of recession on low paid workers and if she will request the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare to give specific attention to the issue of precarious work as recommended by that report.
[34938/12]

Social Welfare Appeals

Peadar Tóibín

57 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take, legislative or otherwise, to ensure that the social welfare appeals office publishes its decisions in a suitably anonymised format.
[34939/12]

Disability Allowance

Peadar Tóibín

348 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons within the appeals process with regards disability allowance applications and all other social protection allowances; the average wait time for these appeals; the longest wait times; and if the practice of giving updates on decisions of the appeals to Deputies has changed.
[35162/12]

Act na dTeangacha Oifigiúla

Peadar Tóibín

417
D’fhiafraigh Peadar Tóibín den Aire Cumarsáide, Fuinnimh agus Acmhainní Nádúrtha ag féachaint don dualgas atá ar Electric Ireland faoi Act na dTeangacha Oifigiúla seirbhís a thabhairt trí Ghaeilge cén fáth nach bhfuil an tseirbhís sin ag feidhmiú (sonraí tugtha).
[35055/12]

Rural Development Programme

Peadar Tóibín

469 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Meath.
[34822/12]

Non-Principal Private Residence Charge

Peadar Tóibín

471 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons that are paying the non-principal private residence charge who own one house only.
[34910/12]

Job Creation

Peadar Tóibín

2 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation in view of the 14.9% unemployment rate for the month of June, the effect this may have on his plans to create 100,000 additional jobs. [34247/12]

Credit Availability

Peadar Tóibín

5 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the steps taken by him to address the issues of credit within the small and medium enterprise sector. [34248/12]

Credit Guarantee Scheme

Peadar Tóibín

22 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the credit guarantee scheme will be in place.
[33849/12]

Credit Guarantee Scheme

Peadar Tóibín

24 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he believes the first guarantees will be issued to business through the credit guarantee scheme.
[33850/12]

Departmental Functions

Peadar Tóibín

29 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the dialogue between her and the Department of Justice and Equality regarding the transfer of certain youth justice functions to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[33330/12]

Children and Family Services

Peadar Tóibín

60 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of evaluation that will take place of the two pilot projects providing out of hours social work assistance to children; and the timeframe during which this will take place.
[33331/12]

Departmental Correspondence

Peadar Tóibín

196 Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will consider reopening the issues in respect of a person (details supplied) if he became aware of additional or new information on the case.
[33007/12]