Results 621-640 of 2,815 for speaker:Tony Killeen
- Seanad: Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005: Report and Final Stages. (3 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: The wording used in the published text has been used in previous legislation, that is, in the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996 and it has not presented any difficulties. It would obviously be preferable that employers and employees avail of the flexibility of the legislation to negotiate and agree information and consultation arrangements. We need to remember...
- Seanad: Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005: Report and Final Stages. (3 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: I thank the Cathaoirleach and the Members for their co-operation and for the amount of work they put into the amendments. I was impressed by the contributions made on Second Stage and the amendments on Committee Stage. If my colleagues in the other House come up with better ideas and I am minded to accept them, I will return to this House with them.
- Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (8 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: From inquiries made in my Department, 18 former employees of the company concerned were paid their statutory redundancy entitlements out of the social insurance fund. Two were refused on the ground that the claimants were not fully insurable for all benefits under the Social Welfare Acts and, therefore, not entitled to statutory redundancy. The payments were made direct to the 18 former...
- Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (9 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: The protection of workers in the use of visual display units is covered by Part VII, Regulations 29 to 32 and the Tenth and Eleventh Schedules to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 1993, SI 44 of 1993, relating to display screen equipment. Those provisions transpose into Irish law Council Directive 90/270/EEC of 29 May 1990 on the minimum safety and...
- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (15 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: The employment rights information unit, which is one of three business units that comprise the employment rights compliance section of the Department is responsible for the dissemination of information on the wide range of employment rights issues that are the remit of the Department. The other two units are the labour inspectorate and the administrative group that processes prosecution and...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (15 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: Proposed draft regulations entitled European Communities (Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances) Regulations 2005, to transpose Directive 2003/105/EC, are with the Attorney General's office for legal settlement. The new regulations will transpose, for the first time, Directive 2003/105/EC on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances which...
- Reform of the Competition Act 2002: Motion (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: The Irish Competition Authority is one of the most proactive and successful enforcement agencies of competition law in Europe. I congratulate the authority on bringing proceedings in a very significant case to the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last Monday and on being the first enforcement agency in Europe to secure a criminal conviction for a competition offence. I would like to mention one...
- Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: My colleague the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Michael Ahern, presented the background and context to this Bill on Tuesday. He summarised its contents up to and including section 20. I will resume the summary, beginning with section 21. A new section 21 was introduced on Committee Stage in the Seanad. The section transposes an optional...
- Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: There will be ample time.
- Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (22 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: There are no restrictions under the safety, health and welfare legislation on a person who uses his or her own home to work from as a place of employment. However, it is important to point out that the employer concerned has a duty under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 to ensure that the employee has a safe place of work. This duty on the employer applies irrespective of where...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Schemes: Redundancy Schemes (22 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: The amount paid by the Department under the redundancy payments scheme in 2004 was â¬152,225,616. The amount paid under the insolvency payments scheme in the same period was â¬5.509 million. The combined total paid by the Department under the redundancy and insolvency payments schemes in 2004 is â¬157,734,616.
- Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (22 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: I have received correspondence from the person concerned regarding alleged breaches of labour legislation by the company concerned. The wages and employment conditions of workers employed in the construction industry are governed by the Registered Employment Agreement (Construction Industry Wages and Conditions of Employment) Variation Order, which is enforced by the labour inspectorate of my...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (23 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: Lump sums were paid from the social insurance fund to the former employees of IFI from 22 November 2002 to 27 October 2005. If the Deputy has further information concerning statutory redundancy payments for former employees of this company, he should pass it to the Minister who will ensure officials of the Department will follow up on the matter.
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (24 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: Council Directive 2004/112 of 13 December 2004 is concerned with adapting to technical progress and relates to Council Directive 95/50/EC on uniform procedures for checks on the transport of dangerous goods by road. This directive is due for transposition into Irish law by 14 December 2005. My Department is currently examining the proposed draft regulations prepared by the Health and Safety...
- Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (24 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: The Labour Court is an independent statutory body and acts independently in carrying out its functions. I am therefore not at liberty to discuss individual cases that are due to be heard by the court even if I had reason to do so. However I understand that a recommendation on more than just the issue of redundancy was issued by the Labour Court to the parties on 21 November 2005. This...
- Seanad: Employment Rights: Statements. (24 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: I welcome this opportunity to advise the House of certain recent and impending developments in the area of employment rights, to give Senators some idea of the types of issue being encountered and to suggest how the changing working environment gives rise to new challenges in the area of employment rights enforcement. I also want to set out how my Department is addressing these issues and...
- Seanad: Employment Rights: Statements. (24 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: I thank the Members who contributed to the debate and will try to respond to the principal points made. Senator Coghlan referred to the danger of over-regulation and the negative impact it can have on small firms, something we must all bear in mind. It is something we try to do. The Senator made the counter-point that employees in small companies must have their rights vindicated but that...
- Seanad: Employment Rights: Statements. (24 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: I am interested in the website mentioned by the Senator and the green card issue in that context. I agree also with what he said about Irish Ferries. The Senator raised the question of extra resources for the labour inspectorate. That is one part of the whole aspect that needs to be dealt with but in the review I mentioned briefly there are many areas we must examine. For example, for the...
- Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: Some 2,000.
- Telecommunications Services. (29 Nov 2005)
Tony Killeen: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter and acknowledge her tireless efforts and representations on behalf of workers threatened by redundancy from Fruit of the Loom and other companies. Forward Emphasis is an outsourced direct marketing services company for financial, government, charity and not-for-profit sectors in the UK. The company is located in Malin, County Donegal, and employs...