Results 261-280 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: This is not good practice. I am aware that Ministers are touring certain constituencies to meet social groups and sporting and cultural groups in particular, to hear supplications in respect of lotto grants that might become available but of course, disconnected to any possible political event that might be happening. This is not the way to deal with public moneys or moneys that are available...
- Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: This was the practice of local government when I was a member of a local authority. Local authorities simply deemed all the applications valid and left it to the Minister to make decisions. It is important to engage local government, the members of which have a feeling for what is happening in their areas. This would be helpful in identifying particular and real needs. The Minister already...
- Job Losses. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Is there injury time for this?
- Job Losses. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The clock starts now.
- Job Protection. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by a number of trade unions regarding alleged abuse of immigrant construction workers; the steps he is taking to ensure that all such workers receive their full entitlements and are covered by all appropriate worker protection laws; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Job Protection. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The most recent and shocking abuse highlighted this week concerned EU nationals who do not require work permits. These are Polish workers who were exploited and paid half the going rate and whose case was highlighted so well and so forcefully in the Irish Examiner this week. Despite receiving threats of legal action for exposing this abuse, why did it require the Irish Examiner and SIPTU to...
- Job Protection. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The core of the issue is that the Minister of State seems to believe it is everybody else's responsibility to find breaches of the legislation rather than his Department's responsibility to be proactive, to have sufficient inspections carried out and to have sufficient inspectors. Does he accept that is his responsibility and he should not leave it to investigative journalists or to the trade...
- Job Protection. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: It is wholly inadequate.
- Job Protection. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: I am telling the Minister of State it is wholly inadequate.
- Newspaper Industry. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: New newspapers are being launched.
- Live Register. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: It is funded by the taxpayer.
- Job Losses. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: We are all listening.
- Job Losses. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Was the Minister on his way to north Kildare?
- Job Losses. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: What the Minister says is correct but, as Deputy Hogan pointed out, it is all very general. The loss of 200 jobs at APW Tallaght is part of the attrition of jobs from the low and semi-skilled sector in the economy. This is the real issue. Is the Minister aware that a large number of such jobs in the sector are hanging on by their fingertips? How is the Minister actively identifying those...
- Job Losses. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Are there mechanisms in place to identify them? Do they go to the Minister or is it vice versa?
- Work Permits. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Unlike Deputy Morgan, I was quite alarmed by the Minister's response. The Tánaiste made a clear declaration to the House when she was in the Minister's Department she would bring in this legislation to effect a transfer of the work permit from the employer to the employee. It is years since that commitment was made but it is still a matter of debate. Does the Minister agree there is an...
- Work Permits. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: What is in the Bill?
- Work Permits. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Could it be either one of them?
- Prices Acts. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Has the Minister read the IMO submission?
- Prices Acts. (24 Feb 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister should read the IMO submission.