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Written Answers — Partnership for Peace: Partnership for Peace (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: Ireland's participation in Partnership for Peace to date is set out in our six individual partnership programmes, copies of which have been lodged in the Dáil library. Ireland's fifth IPP, covering the period 2005-2006, was completed last year in consultation with the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Justice Equality and Law Reform, Health and...

Written Answers — Airspace Regulation: Airspace Regulation (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The Irish Aviation Authority, under the aegis of the Department of Transport, is responsible for the safety regulation of Irish airspace. An airspace change proposal was submitted by Weston Airport Ltd. to the Irish Aviation Authority in August 2005. The proposal was also copied to the Department of Defence and is currently under examination by the Air Corps. It is anticipated that following...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: Ireland is currently contributing 768 Defence Forces personnel to 19 different missions throughout the world. Of these personnel, 149 are officers. Full details of all personnel currently serving overseas are listed in the following statement. The main commitments are to the United Nations Mission in Liberia, with 425 personnel, to the NATO-led international security presence, or KFOR, in...

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. Statistics on employment and unemployment are compiled, at a regional level, from the Quarterly National Household Survey. The latest statistics show that there were 28,800 people classified as unemployed in the Dublin region in the June-August quarter of 2005. Sub-regional statistics of the kind requested by the Deputy are not...

Member States' Measures Concerning Asylum and Immigration: Referral to Select Committee. (8 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: I Move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approve the exercise by the State of the option or discretion, provided by Article 3 of the fourth Protocol set out in the Treaty of Amsterdam, to notify the President of the Council that it wishes to take part in the adoption and application of the following proposed measure: a proposal for a Council Decision on the establishment of a mutual...

Order of Business (Resumed). (8 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: I wish to respond to the formal request made by Deputy Kehoe, the Fine Gael Whip, for a debate on the resignation of the former Minister of State, Deputy Callely. I have checked as best I can with regard to precedent and I am led to believe that in the case of the resignations of the then Ministers of State, Deputy Hogan and Mr. Bobby Molloy, a statement was made by the Deputies in question....

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (13 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: Quarterly labour force estimates are compiled from the quarterly national household survey. As of the second quarter, March to May of 2004, there were 521,400 employees with union membership from a total of 1,507,100 employees, giving a union membership rate of 34.6%. In the second quarter of 2005 there were 1,594,200 employees of whom 544,500 or 34.2%, were members of a trade union.

Written Answers — Work Practices: Work Practices (13 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: Quarterly labour force estimates are compiled from the quarterly national household survey. The latest statistics available are for the period June to August 2005. The exact information as requested by the Deputy is not available as the hours worked per day is not asked of respondents. Data on usual hours worked per week are collected and the usual hours worked per week for those in full-time...

Written Answers — Employment Levels: Employment Levels (13 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The relevant information from the census of industrial production is set out in the following table. The most recent results at county level are for 2003. Number of persons engaged — Textile Industries and All Industries, County Donegal, September 1994 and 2003. September 1994 September 2003 Number of persons % of industrial employment Number of persons % of industrial...

Written Answers — Employment Levels: Employment Levels (13 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The exact information as requested by the Deputy is not available. Unemployment estimates are compiled at a regional level from the quarterly national household survey. The latest statistics show that there were 10,900 people classified as unemployed in the Border region in the June to August quarter of 2005. This equates to an unemployment rate of 5.1% for the Border region, which is...

Council of Europe Representatives. (15 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: I wish to inform the House that the following persons have been selected and nominated as representatives and substitutes from Ireland to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the 2006 session: representatives, Deputies Noel Davern, G.V. Wright, Pat Breen and Eamon Gilmore; alternates, Deputy Paddy McHugh and Senators Paul Bradford, Paschal Mooney and Ann Ormonde.

International Agreements: Motions. (15 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the terms of the Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria on co-operation in combating illicit trafficking in drugs and precursors, money laundering, organised crime, trafficking in persons, terrorism and other serious crime which was signed in Dublin on 31st January, 2002, copies of which were laid before...

International Agreements: Motions. (15 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the terms of the Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Cyprus on co-operation in combating illicit drug trafficking, money laundering, organised crime, trafficking in persons, terrorism and other serious crime which was signed in Dublin on 8th March, 2002, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 21st...

International Agreements: Motions. (15 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the terms of the Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Poland on co-operation in combating organised crime and other serious crime which was signed in Warsaw on 12th May, 2001, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 31st May, 2002.

Treaty of Amsterdam: Motion. (15 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion, provided by Article 3 of the fourth Protocol set out in the Treaty of Amsterdam, to notify the President of the Council that it wishes to take part in the adoption and application of the following proposed measure: a proposal for a Council Decision on the establishment of a mutual information procedure...

Business of Dáil. (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the Order of the Dáil of this day, Private Members' Business shall take place on the conclusion of No. 18 and shall adjourn after 90 minutes.

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting that the Government on 13th December 2005 nominated Mr. Justice Kevin Haugh, Mr. Conor Brady and Ms Carmel Foley for appointment by the President to be members of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and Mr. Justice Kevin Haugh to be its Chairperson, recommends, pursuant to section 65(1)(b) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, that those persons be...

Maternity Protection Act: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the Draft Order entitled Maternity Protection Act 1994 (Extension of Periods of Leave) Order 2006, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 18th January, 2006.

Adoptive Leave Act: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the Draft Order entitled Adoptive Leave Act 1995 (Extension of Periods of Leave) Order 2006, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 18th January, 2006.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: I move: That notwithstanding anything in the Resolution of the Dáil of 6th June, 2002, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and...