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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Court (21 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: The Labour Court is an independent statutory office under the aegis of my Department. The Court was established under the Industrial Relations Act, 1946, to exercise the functions assigned to it by the Act. The functions of the Court have been altered and extended by subsequent legislation, including the Workplace Relations Act 2015 which provided that the Labour Court is now the sole...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: I can advise the deputy that the position under Irish industrial relations legislation is that the law does not confer a positive right to strike, picket or engage in other industrial action. Instead the law confers immunity from civil suits on those that participate in lawful industrial action. Industrial action includes pickets at employer’s premises, secondary picketing, a strike...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: During the course of the recent extreme weather event a status red alert warning was issued by Met Éireann covering a number of counties, mainly in the Leinster and Munster areas. Under Irish employment law there is no statutory obligation for an employer to pay an employee where that employee cannot attend for work.  Payment of wages in situations where an employee is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 397 and 398 together. As stated in my reply to the Deputy of 16 November 2017, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and the Labour Court are independent in the exercise of their quasi-judicial functions. Section 13(2) of the Industrial Relations Act 1969 provides a statutory restriction on the types of Industrial Relations cases Adjudicators...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: 680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 451 of 23 January 2018, when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11746/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (20 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: 938. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for a living alone allowance by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11930/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: I think it may be useful to set out the process by which an application for a Sectorial Employment Order (SEO) in a particular sector is developed and the role that the  Minister and the Oireachtas has in this regard. The Industrial Relations Act 2015 provides a new framework under which proposals for wage setting in particular economic sectors can...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: 408. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 439 of 23 January 2018, when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11003/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: 555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10957/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: 556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10958/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: 557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11002/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (8 Mar 2018)

Pat Breen: 558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11039/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (28 Feb 2018)

Pat Breen: 190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10351/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (27 Feb 2018)

Pat Breen: 546. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9464/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (27 Feb 2018)

Pat Breen: 548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9479/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Applications (27 Feb 2018)

Pat Breen: 553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9678/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (22 Feb 2018)

Pat Breen: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 441 of 23 January 2018, when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9202/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Equine Industry (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Breen: In 2017, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) initiated a compliance and enforcement campaign within the equine sector generally, including the horse racing industry. Over the course of the year (Phase I) some 74 employers were identified and 73 inspections had been carried out for the purposes of checking compliance with, among other requirements, national minimum wage rates, employment...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Breen: The Deputy will appreciate that I am not in a position to comment on a national minimum wage compliance scheme operating in another jurisdiction. I should point out that policy responsibility for the social care sector comes within the remit of the Minister for Health who, I understand, has previously commented on the particular issue of overnight workers in the social care sector....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (20 Feb 2018)

Pat Breen: I want to assure the deputy that my Department works in close co-operation with the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to ensure that the WRC has sufficient capacity and mechanisms available to it to assist in the effective enforcement of employment law. This builds on the significant reform package put in place in the employment rights enforcement area that was voted through the...