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Aer Lingus (16 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that Aer Lingus is a strategic asset; his further views that the Heathrow slots are a strategic asset; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8567/12]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (16 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he will take to deal with the large number of foreign licence holders to whom penalty points cannot be attached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8566/12]

Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (16 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the shortfall of places available to students in Limerick city and the surrounding suburbs who wish to continue their education through the medium of Irish and who have been refused places at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick due to lack of finances, accommodation and teaching...

Written Answers — Courts Service: Courts Service (16 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that as a result of the provisions of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, the Circuit Court no longer has any direct power to enforce maintenance orders; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that a backlog of cases has arisen in which persons who are entitled...

Social Insurance (21 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I did not anticipate we would be discussing this issue here on 21 February because the impression was given that it was off the agenda. It was an initial proposal by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Burton, which was to have been debated in government and withdrawn, presumably at the insistence of the Minister, Deputy Bruton, actively encouraged by some of his backbenchers,...

Social Insurance (21 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: On the final point made by the Minister, what I am saying is that there are different redundancy schemes in different countries. If a firm in Ireland wants to downsize and must make a certain number of people redundant in order to survive, it will cost the firm two and a half times per person more than it would in the United Kingdom, which is our nearest neighbour and competitor. That is an...

Social Insurance (21 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: At least.

Social Insurance (21 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: What about last November's Forfás report? Will the Minister publish that?

Social Insurance (21 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Discussions have two sides.

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Government's jobs initiative contains a commitment to introduce legislation to abolish city and county enterprise boards and put something else in their place. When can we expect to see that legislation?

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: This is a very serious point. The chief executives of both the Industrial Development Agency, IDA, and Enterprise Ireland told the relevant committee this morning that legislation was necessary in this case.

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: When can we expect that legislation?

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 18 and 19. The net effect of the amendment is to remove section 1(2) from the Bill. The Bill would therefore come into effect when it was passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas and signed by the President. I am trying to eliminate the element of retrospection back to 5 December. We have the rather peculiar situation that the employment...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: As this issue was well ventilated on Committee Stage, I do not want to labour the point. The Minister cites an instance in which a hirer did not co-operate with an agency, leaving it with a liability. The Bill makes it clear that the agency does not have a case against the hirer in such an instance. Until the Bill becomes law the hirer is under no legal obligation to co-operate with the...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Not Sweden.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, line 26, after "agency" to insert the following: ", but the following shall not be deemed to be agency workers— (a) employees of contractor companies; and (b) limited liability companies where the worker is also the beneficial owner of the company". As I said on Committee Stage, I do not have strong feelings about this amendment. I will not lie awake...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I note what the Minister has said. The poet and parliamentarian, T. M. Kettle, said he would trust the Irish parliamentary draftsman to draft the ten commandments. Nevertheless, the Parliamentary Counsel has, on occasion, got it wrong. The legal advice I have received is that a court could interpret the Bill in a different way. However, I will not press the amendment. With due respect to...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 13: In page 8, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: "(3) If any agency worker believes that an incorrect comparator has been used that worker must inform the employer and the employer will be obliged to investigate the claim and if necessary correct the situation within a period of fourteen days. If the employer corrects the situation within fourteen days,...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: While I appreciate what the Minister intends to include in the guidelines about conciliation, I do not understand his reasoning in rejecting this amendment. It appears to me to be typical Civil Service-speak, in that he cannot accept this because there is no sanction and no oversight. However, no one is worried about sanction or oversight. Were an incorrect comparator to be used, the...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Not necessarily.