Peadar Tóibín (Sinn Féin)
candidate Dáil election

Peadar Tóibín
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Senior Consultant, réalt* Consulting
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Meath West ,
1st preference votes: 6.989, 17,4%, elected
Landeslistenplatz
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All SF workers, including TDs, only receive the average industrial wage. Our policy is to reduce Ministers salaries by 40% and TDs by 20%. (...)
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Issue public sector
04.02.2011
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How would you, as well as your party, respond to TDs receiving the average industrial wage as an annual income (and severe limiting of expenses) in order to contribute to meaningful social equity?
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06.02.2011
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Reply to question,

All SF workers, including TDs, only receive the average industrial wage. Our policy is to reduce Ministers salaries by 40% and TDs by 20%. With regard to expenses SF are the only party in the Dáil, that opposed the current expenses regime introduced by Charlie McCreevy. FG, Labour and the Greens all backed this expenses policy. We believe that expenses are grossly excessive and should be based on receipts only.

Le gach deá ghuí,

Peadar Tóibín
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Issue public sector
08.02.2011
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Thank you for your response, Peadar.

However, I do find your answer somewhat problematic. You write that, ´All SF workers, including TDs, only recieve the average industrial wage´--is it more accurate to say that you TAKE the average industrial wage, but that your salary is the same as other TDs?

Is it worth suggesting that all TDs take home the average industrial wage, and would you, and your party, support such a recommendation in the next Dáil?

Sincerely.

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Issue environment
08.02.2011
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Much of the election campaign talk has been of an economic nature. There has been talk of ‘growing the economy’; of ‘promoting growth’; or ‘providing/creating jobs’; and other talk that is all of an economic concern. However, science today tells us that climate change is a serious issue (however, contested); that peak oil is an increasing concern; that species extinctions are happening at an alarming rate; and in today’s news, the EPA has announced that over 50% of Irish landfill sites are nearly full.

Why does your party not assign equal attention to ecological issues as it does to economic issues?
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08.02.2011
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Hi there,

To me sustainability and the reduction of fossil fuels is extremely important. I believe strongly that it is necessary to decouple growth from carbon. I have passed motions at Navan Town Council which seeks a review over all council buildings to ensure that they are as efficient as possible. I also had negotiations with the council to try and get a large renewable energy project funded in the area. Kerry County Council have managed it and I hope for Meath to get it too. I am the only councillor who practices what I preach and I cycle around the town every day. I voted against a levy on Wind Turbines in the Navan area. And I am hoping to get free parking for electric cars in the area. I have also helped renewable business such as Hot Logs in Slane.

If you email me your number I would love to discuss this issue in person with you.

Le gach deá ghuí,

Peadar
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