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Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: If that is the Minister's attitude to workers' rights, it speaks volumes.

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Since the Tánaiste is taking the Order of Business, and to have clarity regarding an answer she gave me on the Order of Business previously when she held the Enterprise, Trade and Employment portfolio, will the work permits Bill transfer the work permit to the individual applicant rather than the company, as was promised by the Tánaiste in the House?

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Will it be published this session? Have the heads of the Bill been passed?

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (17 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will report on the guidelines for 2005 for the per cent scheme for public art; if he is satisfied with the level of awareness about the scheme; the level of uptake of the funding allocated in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5338/05]

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (22 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether the perceived increased top-down control of community organisations by his Department which has brought about frustration and increased concern in the sector will be further drastically increased by his decision to withdraw funding from the Community Workers Co-operative; if he will reconsider his...

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (22 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the criteria under which the Community Workers Co-operative lost its funding from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5813/05]

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (22 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Transport when his Department officially notified driving school proprietors that a change in standards in relation to heavy goods vehicles registered after 1 January 2004 would come into force in February 2005; if this notice was adequate to enable owners to make the necessary adjustments in time to meet compliance by the due date; if additional time to...

Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I assume the Government is proceeding with its commitment to have the "yellow pack" medical cards available on 1 April. The timeframe for the enactment of legislation is tight. When will it be brought before the House? With regard to another matter of some urgency, which has arisen due to constant reports of abuse of the current work permits legislation, new work permits legislation was...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I had spotted it.

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Agreed. Are there other groupings of amendments or will each amendment be discussed separately?

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, line 22, after "AS" to insert the following: "AN tÚDARÁS SLÁINTE AGUS SÁBHÁILTEACHTA, OR, IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,". I would have liked to have sight of it because it is hard to examine groupings if they are handed to one when one is on one's feet. As on Committee Stage the Minister of State might bear with us in respect of groupings which it may not...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I am grateful to him because it has helped us understand the reasoning behind the Minister's position and in more than one instance punctured our own logic when we see the case set out. That is a useful way of dealing with legislation and I thank and commend the Minister of State for that approach. After that plámás I am sure the Minister of State will accept the amendment.

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Tá sé deacair a thuiscint conas a mbeadh deacracht ar bith ag baint leis an moladh atá os comhair na Dála an t-údarás a ainmniú as Gaeilge. I do not see how it could be difficult to put in an English version of the Bill the official title of the agency in the Irish language. The Minister of State has not proposed anything. He said he was advised that there might be deacrachtaí ag...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I am disappointed that a Minister of State who has a particular regard for and great competence in the Irish language would not accept this amendment. It is important occasionally to send a signal to the drafters that this is the will of the Oireachtas.

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I propose that they be taken individually rather than together.

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to have them discussed individually.

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, line 33, to delete "Safety, Health and Welfare" and substitute "Health and Safety". This matter was discussed on Committee Stage. Given that the Bill is renaming the National Authority for Occupational Safety and Health as the Health and Safety Authority it is appropriate that the Bill should be a health and safety at work Bill. I have had regard to the...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: "(2) Pending the repeal of the existing enactments, those enactments and this Act may be cited together as the Health and Safety at Work Acts 1882 to 2005.". The purpose of this amendment is to highlight that the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989 repealed all the previous health and safety...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: The Boiler Explosion Act 1992 is to be repealed shortly.

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I am not satisfied with the Minister of State's response. Decisions made by the Oireachtas as long ago as 1989 cannot be brought into force for administrative or manpower reasons and in the year 2005, the House has not been given a definite timeframe. The Minister of State is not even proposing a different timetable to mine in order to do the business which the Minister of State has indicated...