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Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: -----in Ireland. He probably does not know that people who worked-----

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: No, you do not know.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: You do not have a clue, actually.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I wish to make one last point.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Some 50% of people who work in foreign direct investment companies - Deputy Boyd Barrett can sneer because he does not give a hoot about the working man or the working woman, if you ask me. They earn 50%-----

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have the floor. They earn 50% more than people in our other companies.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am telling Deputy Boyd Barrett about his constituency. He needs to know that the majority of mothers and fathers I know want their children to go out and get jobs. There are multinationals and foreign direct investment companies supplying 200,000 jobs for 200,000 people. Just last week, so that Deputies know, we had a trade mission within Ireland. We brought our indigenous companies...

Competition (Amendment) Act 2016 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Competition (Amendment) Act 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Now.

Competition (Amendment) Act 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, which is intended to establish rights for certain categories of self-employed individuals. I welcome the many people in the Public Gallery whom the Bill will affect. The Bill proposes that a trade union can apply to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for an exemption from the application of section 4 of the Competition Act...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Ireland is an open trading economy.  Under successive governments Ireland has continued to promote a policy for open international trade and competition.  This has greatly benefitted our economy.  My Department consults relevant Government Departments at every stage of a negotiation of a free trade agreement.  My Department consulted the Department of Health in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Living Wage concept is grounded in the idea that a person’s wage should be sufficient to maintain a safe, decent standard of living. At an individual level the resources required to achieve a minimum essential standard of living is very dependent on family circumstances and thus the interaction of individual earnings with household income and State-provided supports such as Child...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Since I took up office as the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, five forensic accountants have joined the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and a recruitment process is underway for a further two. Additionally, a senior digital forensics specialist is expected to take up duty with the ODCE in June. In addition, and due to a combination of retirement, promotion...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The investigative shortcomings of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) identified by Judge John Aylmer in this case are unacceptable. They fell far short of the standard impartial, unbiased and thorough investigation we expect and demand. I have written to the Director of Corporate Enforcement on Wednesday May 24, requesting a report under section 955(1)(a) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I was briefed by Department officials on developments with the Anglo investigations shortly after taking up office as the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. As a matter of course, previous ministers were similarly briefed on issues related to the Anglo investigations. In particular, a Memorandum to Government accompanied the ODCE Annual Report each year which would have outlined...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Under the provisions of the Companies Act 2014, the Director of Corporate Enforcement is independent in the exercise of his functions. On March 16, 2011, the Secretaries General of the then Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation and the then Department of Justice and Law Reform met with the Garda Commissioner and officials from the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (31 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: In October 2016 the Low Pay Commission submitted its report on the sub-minima rates of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, which included a study by the ESRI on the usage of sub-minima rates both in Ireland and internationally. The Commission found that sub-minima rates of a similar nature are in use in a number of OECD countries.  It concluded that incidence of usage of the sub-minima...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Insurance Data (1 Jun 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: State indemnity for personal injury and third party property damage is set out in the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act, 2000 where the management of personal injury underlying risks and third party property damage claims against certain State authorities is delegated to the National Treasury Management Agency.  When performing these functions, the Agency is known...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Investigations (1 Jun 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The principal functions of the Director of Corporate Enforcement are set out in the Companies Act 2014. They include to: 1. encourage compliance with the Act; 2. investigate instances of suspected offences under the Act; 3. enforce the Act, including by the prosecution of offences by way of summary proceedings; 4. refer cases, at his discretion, to the Director of Public Prosecutions...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Joint Labour Committees Agreements (1 Jun 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Joint Labour Committees (JLCs) are provided for under the Industrial Relations Act 1946 and were reformed by the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act, 2012. A JLC is comprised of equal numbers of representatives of employers and workers in a sector.  JLCs meet regularly, under an independent Chairperson to discuss proposals for terms and conditions to apply to specified grades or...