Results 2,081-2,100 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Public Holidays. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I was in the House earlier today when we discussed the role of social partnership in determining what this elected assembly might decide. I am flabbergasted by the content of the Minister of State's response. He effectively stated that since the social partners did not raise the issue we should not discuss it. We are two public holidays below the European average, which is not a maximum....
- Public Holidays. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: As the last office holder to introduce a public holiday, the May bank holiday Monday announced in 1993 and introduced in 1994, I would indicate the difference between a public holiday and the flexibility of annual leave. A family can adjust the taking of annual leave to meet particular requirements and the difference between this and public holidays is succinct and important. For example,...
- Public Holidays. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I am quite serious. A space is created. I commend the people of Cork who brought forward the jazz festival but they chose to take a window of opportunity, a public holiday weekend. Dublin City Council did likewise when Noel Carroll initiated the Dublin City Marathon. On one occasion 15,000 people ran in the city marathon, creating a buzz and opportunities for employment and wealth...
- State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on progress made in the establishment of the Office of the Director of Employment Rights Compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15645/07]
- State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. Can he tell the House whether the position of director general of the body was publicly advertised? If it was not publicly advertised, what prompted the Minister and the Government to decide to propose Mr. Deering as the director general of the body?
- State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: It was through a competition.
- State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Was the competition publicly advertised?
- State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: That is fine.
- State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Okay.
- Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I accept the Minister's response as far as it goes. To what extent does his Department monitor the maintenance by the various State agencies of the standards he has described? To what extent do those agencies report directly to his Department, as distinct from merely including an account of their compliance in their annual reports?
- Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: As a Cork Member, and given the colleague beside him, does the Minister accept that for a long time the financial incentive to accept a mileage allowance instead of having one's train fare reimbursed was skewed for every Member?
- Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Not necessarily. If anything, the scheme has been rendered more opaque. The Minister has been in office for so long that he does not know what has changed.
- Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I am well aware of what has changed.
- Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I am not imputing that for a moment. In his supplementary question, my colleague raised the question of staff. If someone in the family of enterprise agencies, including Forfás, the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, needs to travel to Limerick for a meeting, what is the difference in what that person would get if he or she went by train instead of claiming mileage? I suspect that the cash in...
- Irish Language. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Is it in order for a question to be answered in the absence of the Deputy who tabled it?
- Company Closures. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I have brought this case to the Minister's attention on several occasions, and I am not satisfied that we have made the progress required to ensure that there is no replication elsewhere in the sector. The construction industry is particularly vulnerable to phoenix-type companies and the re-emergence of directors from one company in another. Their obligations to their employees, customers...
- Job Creation. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for job creation in the south and south west following the recent high-profile job losses at three companies; his view on the fact that high-technology jobs are being lost in the region; the steps he is taking to ensure retention of high-tech jobs in the region and the introduction of new high-tech jobs; and if...
- Job Creation. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I have a supplementary question but it is possibly linked to Question No. 14 which we may not reach.
- Job Creation. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I accept the overall situation with regard to employment creation in the economy is positive, but that generalisation does not include people, of whom there are many, as the Minister's figures suggest there were 440,000 at the last count, who only have second level educational achievement within a labour force of just over 2 million. I do not dispute the points made by the Minister. They...
- Employment Support Services. (26 Apr 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I welcome the members of the Fourth Estate, who have displayed an extraordinary interest in upcoming redundancies. Specifically on the difficulties older people face finding new employment, will the Minister indicate whether FÃS will extend its services to backbench members of his parliamentary party who are likely to find themselves in that circumstance fairly soon after the next election?