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Written Answers — Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Social Responsibility (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: The Government fully supports the principle of corporate social responsibility. Ireland, along with our EU partners, was happy to co-sponsor a resolution on the responsibilities of trans-national corporations and related business enterprises in this respect at the most recent session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. Under the terms of the commission's decision, the High...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment, FDI, to Ireland and its regions. The agency, through its network of local and overseas offices, is actively marketing counties Cavan and Monaghan on an ongoing basis as a location for FDI. The data following details the number of jobs created in IDA supported companies for counties...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for attracting foreign direct investment, FDI, to Ireland and its regions. The agency is actively marketing Counties Cavan and Monaghan on an ongoing basis as a location for FDI through its network of overseas offices, in order to secure new investment and jobs for the area. The data following details the new investment projects...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: Support for job creation is a day to day operational matter for the industrial development agencies. The Forfás annual employment survey is used to compile job statistics in agency — IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland — assisted companies. Forfás obtains the information from companies on the basis that employment figures will not be published individually. Aggregated data for County...

Written Answers — Genetically Modified Organisms: Genetically Modified Organisms (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: I have been advised by the controller of patents, designs and trade marks that, in the area referred to in the Deputy's question, the following patents have been granted by the Patents Office under Irish patent law and are still valid. Those designated with the word "Seed" in the last column of the following tables indicate patent protection is for a genetically modified seed while those...

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 86 and 90 together. Responsibility for the proposed new Shannon Airport Authority is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Transport, while I, as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, have responsibility for Shannon Development. I have been in contact with the Minister for Transport and with the board of Shannon Development concerning a...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: The Minister for Finance, in his budget speech, announced the decision of the Government to decentralise 300 of Enterprise Ireland's Dublin based staff to Shannon. It is intended that the move will take place as soon as possible but will be dependent on the conclusion of national, public sector wide, discussions on the implementation of the decentralisation programme and the availability of...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 89 together. I refer the Deputy to the reply I gave to a similar question on 4 February 2004. In that response, I stated that I had been in touch with the board of Shannon Development on the impact of the move of Enterprise Ireland — EI — staff to Shannon. At my request, the board considered the issue and had written to me in the matter. It believed...

Written Answers — Casual Trading: Casual Trading (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: I signed the Casual Trading Act 1995 (Section 2 (3)) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 191 of 2004) on 29 April 2004. My powers to add to the existing list of categories of selling exempted from the Act reflect similar powers conferred on local authorities in respect of their functional areas and I am aware that some local authorities have used these exemption powers. The regulations came into force...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (25 May 2004)

Mary Harney: The attraction of business and industry to the business park at Askeaton is a day to day operational matter for the relevant development agencies, IDA Ireland and Shannon Development. As the Deputy is aware, IDA Ireland is the national agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions, while Shannon Development is responsible for...

Written Answers — Health Service Personnel: Health Service Personnel (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: The number of assaults on health service personnel that have been notified to the Health and Safety Authority from January 2000 to end 2003 are as follows: 2000 2001 2002 2003 Total 64 97 78 88 327

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 100 and 101 together. I am informed that a work permit, permit number 0057502, was issued by post to the employer at the relevant address on 18 February 2004. I am also informed, following receipt of statement of loss and confirmation from the employer that the address is correct, that a duplicate permit, permit number 0045579, was issued on 10 May 2004. Given...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 102 and 104 together. Spouses of nationals from outside the European economic area, EEA, are not prohibited from working in the State. However, they require an employment permit in their own right. In light of difficulties experienced by some spouses, I recently announced new arrangements designed to give greater ease of access to employment for the spouses of...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: My Department can only consider the issue of a work permit when it has a specific application from an employer. In the buoyant labour market of recent years my Department has been able to adopt a very flexible approach towards meeting the needs of work permit personnel who lose an existing job and who find a prospective new employer. My Department is generally sympathetically disposed to...

Written Answers — Working Hours: Working Hours (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: The Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 provides that an employee shall not work more than an average of 48 hours a week, averaged generally over four months. For employees whose work is subject to seasonality or a foreseeable surge in activity, or where employees are directly involved in ensuring continuity of service or production, the averaging period is six months. The averaging period...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: Support for investment and job creation is a day to day operational matter for the industrial development agencies: IDA Ireland, which is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of industry; Enterprise Ireland, which has responsibility for developing indigenous industry and Mayo County Enterprise Board, CEB, which has responsibility for the promotion of indigenous industry...

Written Answers — Production Costs: Production Costs (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: The European Commission has competence in this area. In relation to the possibility of a temporary suspension of anti-dumping measures on steel, anti-dumping measures are currently in force in relation to a range of steel products, for example, steel wire, cables, pipes and tubes etc. The basic anti-dumping regulations provide for temporary suspension, initially for nine months, of measures...

Written Answers — Departmental Audits: Departmental Audits (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: There have been 10 internal audit reports completed in my Department since January 2001. These reports are as follows: departmental payment procedures; appropriations in aid; procedures for funds transfer to FÁS; patents office receipts; work permits; local enterprise section; follow up audit, on the adequacy of the implementation of past audit recommendations; asset register; industrial...

Written Answers — Company Registration: Company Registration (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: Unlike under the statutory provisions for the registration of a company name, there is nothing to prevent a business using the same or a similar business name to one already registered. Thus, for example, there are a large number of business names, quite legally, registered as the "Central Hotel" or the "Village Inn". The purpose of the statutory requirement to register a business name is to...

Written Answers — Hazardous Substances: Hazardous Substances (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Harney: Statutory Instrument SI 476/2000 of the European Communities (Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances) Regulations 2000 transposed into Irish law Article 4(d) of Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances. Neither SI 476 of 2000 nor Directive 96/82/EC exclude pipelines and pumping stations...