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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: Neither my Department nor its agencies are responsible for registering people as self-employed. Persons wishing to register as self-employed should file their records with the Revenue Commissioners for tax purposes and the Department of Social and Family Affairs for social insurance matters. While FÁS runs courses for the training, assessment and certification of construction operatives as...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: Entrepreneurship in Ireland is supported and encouraged by the active and constant pursuit and promotion by the Government of an economic environment that is supportive of entrepreneurial activity combined with a wide range of targeted interventions by various State enterprise development agencies. Ireland's extraordinary success over the past decade has been built on, and continues to be...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: The role of the CEB Central Co-ordination Unit has its origins in one of the core recommendations of the Fitzpatrick's Review of the County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs). It recommended that a CEB Central Co-Ordination Unit (CCU) should be established within Enterprise Ireland (EI). The recommendation envisaged that the establishment of such a Unit could provide a level and range of...

Written Answers — Judicial Reviews: Judicial Reviews (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 620 and 621 together. The detail relating to judicial reviews that my Department was responsible for in each of the years 1997 to 2007 inclusive is set out in the following tabular statement. 1997 Number of applications for Judicial Review initiated against the Department Number of applications where leave was granted Total damages awarded against the State...

Written Answers — International Trade: International Trade (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: In relation to competition law, the precise term "inter-state trade" does not appear either in the Competition Act 2002 or in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty of Rome. However, the term "trade between Member States" appears in both Articles 81 and 82. Article 81(1) prohibits agreements, decisions and concerted practices which "may affect trade between Member States" and which have the object...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 628 and 629 together. Joint Labour Committees (JLCs) are established by order of the Labour Court under Section 35 of the Industrial Relations Act 1946. JLCs discuss and agree terms and conditions to apply to specified workers in certain sectors. When a JLC agrees terms and conditions, it makes proposals to the Labour Court. That Court, on foot of a JLC...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: I assume that the Deputy is referring to the judgement of the Court given on 11 December 2007 in Case C-438/05, International Transport Workers' Federation, Finnish Seamen's Union - V- Viking Line ABP, OU Viking Line Eesti. The case concerned the application of Article 43 EC (Right of Establishment) in relation to collective action by trade unions against a private undertaking and does not...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: Details of the 20 Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas that were sponsored by my Department from 2003 to 2007 are set out in the following tabular statement. 2003 Title Act Was the Act introduced wholly or mainly as a result of EU obligations Was the Act introduced partly as a result of EU obligations Did the Act have minimal or no basis in EU obligations Where Acts were implemented...

Written Answers — Research Funding: Research Funding (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 634 to 636, inclusive, together. Funding is provided for the establishment of Enterprise Incubators through a programme operated by Enterprise Ireland in the context of company creation rather than as a process through which new companies are attracted to a specific region or regions. The types of companies that occupy existing facilities are firms which have...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: The management of IDA Ireland's industrial property portfolio is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency, as part of the statutory responsibility assigned to it by the Oireachtas and it is not a matter in which I have a function. I understand from IDA that it owns a total of 273.6 hectares of promotable land in the area of East Cork. Enterprise Ireland does not own land for...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: My Department's records indicate the following: 2002 — One laptop reported stolen. 2003 — One laptop reported stolen. 2004 — No IT assets reported lost, missing or stolen. 2005 — One Laptop reported stolen and one Blackberry reported lost. 2006 — One Blackberry reported lost. 2007 — One Blackberry reported stolen. Of the three laptops reported stolen one was subsequently recovered...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas, including Cork and Kerry, for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. While I may give general policy directives to the Agency, I am precluded under the Acts from giving...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas, including Kerry, for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. While I may give general policy directives to the Agency, I am precluded under the Acts from giving directives...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas, including Limerick, for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. While I may give general policy directives to the Agency, I am precluded under the Acts from giving directives...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas, including Cork, for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. I am informed by the Agency that in the period January 2002 and December 2007 there were a total of 145 site visits...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that a work permit has now issued in this case.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that work permits have now issued in the case of the above named applicants.

Written Answers — Services Sector: Services Sector (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: The resale of tickets for high-demand events at prices well above their face value is not a new phenomenon. The form it takes has changed in recent times with the emergence of online trading platforms and of businesses that engage in ticket resale openly and, as they would see it, legitimately. Action in this area could involve either the prohibition or the regulation of ticket resale. I am...

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: The Internet is an increasingly aggressive environment and the advice of my Department's ICT security advisers is that all websites and on-line systems run the risk of hacking or some other cyber attack. Many of these attacks are automated and are not targeted at particular individuals or organisations. Consequently my Department takes the security of its computer systems and the data they...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (30 Jan 2008)

Micheál Martin: The management of IDA Ireland's industrial property portfolio, including the purchase and disposal of property, is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency as part of the statutory responsibility assigned to it by the Oireachtas and not a matter in which I have a function. I understand that negotiations between IDA and Roscommon County Council on this matter are ongoing and it is hoped...