Results 181-200 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Price Controls. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: The Deputy has proved my point.
- Price Controls. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: I stayed at home on New Year's Eve.
- Price Controls. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: The country is full of pubs and I am certain that pubs in Kilkenny and Carlow did not charge â¬12 for a drink.
- Price Controls. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: The Deputy was probably in all of them at some stage.
- Price Controls. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: Café-style bars change the drinking culture as well as providing drink for a reasonable price.
- Price Controls. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: It is happening not only in Dublin but all over Europe and elsewhere.
- Price Controls. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: It is happening all over the world. The Deputy has been in those establishments.
- Job Losses. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: I regret very much recent job losses in County Kerry, including the Sports Socks Company's plants in Cahirciveen and Tralee, and Rosenbluth in Killarney, and I am conscious of the adverse effects on the workers, their families and the local community. Finding alternative employment for the workers affected is a priority for FÃS and the State development agencies. FÃS is making available its...
- Job Losses. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: I appreciate Deputy Deenihan's invitation to Kerry. It is always a great pleasure to visit the county and I will be visiting it shortly on an extensive visit. Notwithstanding the disappointing news about the companies we mentioned, there are companies expanding in the Kerry area. The live register is up 147 year on year but there are also a substantial number of immigrant workers in many of...
- Job Losses. (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: If any visit of mine to Kerry or anywhere else can generate employment, I will be willing to make such visits to any county. The IDA had five site visits to Kerry North in 2003. The support of Enterprise Ireland was for the expansion of FEXCO. In addition, FÃS has about 1,500 people in either apprenticeships or training programmes in Kerry, which represents a considerable resource. Many of...
- Written Answers — Price Inflation: Price Inflation (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: I am aware of the report in question, which relates to a survey carried out by the Office of the Director for Consumer Affairs as part of its price awareness campaign. The survey demonstrates, first, that price competition is operating in the market for over-the-counter medicines, which is a good thingand, secondly, that consumers can benefitfrom comparing the prices of different retail...
- Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 119 and 122 together. Employment permits such as the working visas and working authorisations granted to highly skilled personnel such as nurses, doctors, physiotherapists and other health professionals, to IT professionals and to construction professionals such as architects, engineers and town planners are granted to the individual employee and permit them...
- Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 120, 151 and 191 together. At a meeting on 25 November 2003, the Government discussed the contents of the National Competitiveness Council's annual competitiveness report 2003, and the competitiveness challenge 2003. It was agreed that the Government would consider Ireland's competitiveness status every six months and that this discussion would also cover the...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: The current position in relation to the transposition of EU Directives for which my Department is responsible indicates a total of 26 directives to be implemented, including ten for which the deadline for implementation, in full or inpart, has passed. Details of the directives,including, insofar as it has been decided, theproposed transposition instruments, are availableon my Department's...
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: I was very disappointed at the company's announcement of plans to reduce its workforce by 170, including 75 permanent jobs, at its Brinny facility in County Cork. I understand that the decision was taken because of reduced demand for the company's main product, coupled with the recent announcement by the parent company that, as part of major global restructuring, it intends cutting payroll...
- Written Answers — Industrial Employment: Industrial Employment (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: The figures for average annual level of industrial employment between 1998 and 2002 together with the latest provisional figure, which is for September 2003, are as follows: Average Annual Industrial Employment 1998-2002 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 (Sept.) 257,900 257,000 266,700 269,000 256,500 241,500 The decline in industrial employment since 2001 undoubtedly reflects the...
- Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: I am aware of the comments in question and welcome the opportunity to set out the position on this issue. At present, the work permit facility grants the permit to an employer to recruit a specific employee to fill a specific vacancy, where the employer has been unable to find a suitable employee within Ireland or the wider European Economic Area. This arrangement does have the safeguard that...
- Written Answers — Workplace Inspections: Workplace Inspections (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: On 28 July 2003 the United Nations Security Council decided in its Resolution 1493 (2003) to impose an embargo on the supply of arms and related material as well as on the provision of assistance, advice or training related to military activities to all armed groups and militias operating in the territory of North and South Kivu and of Ituri, and to groups not party to the global and...
- Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: There is a growing recognition in the country that our current arrangements for the articulation and promotion of consumer interests are not all that they should be. We all know how effective and persuasive other sectors and groups can be in defending and pursuing their economic interests. I have no difficulty about that, but if we are to have a fully competitive economy with functioning...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (10 Feb 2004)
Mary Harney: Despite the global economic downturn the Irish labour market has been resilient with employment continuing to grow. A total of 1,820,800 persons were in employment in the third quarter of 2003, which represented an increase of 26,000 in the year. While job losses were experienced in some sectors, they were more than offset by employment opportunities in other sectors. The forecast for...