Results 7,821-7,840 of 9,147 for speaker:Pat Breen
- Priority Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (15 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: This was a very serious report, but it is an independent report. As the Deputy rightly pointed out there will be different views on the matter. The trade unions and NGOs will support the recommendations and the employer and business groups will be against it. Those of us in government and the Department have to strike a balance regarding the employers and the workers. This will take time....
- Other Questions: Research Funding (15 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: Deputy Halligan is the expert.
- Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (15 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: I thank Deputy Browne for his question. Deputy Coppinger has a similar question but she is not here. I propose to take Questions Nos. 46 and 47 together in any event. I am committed to considering the appropriate policy response to the report of the University of Limerick of their study of zero-hour contracts and low-hour contracts. As Deputies will be aware, the University of Limerick...
- Other Questions: Zero-hour Contracts (15 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: I will take note of the Deputy's concerns, which the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, and I will try to rectify. We must examine the report, why it was commissioned and the recommendations in it. As the Deputy pointed out, while zero hours contracts are not often used in industry, the "if and when" approach is used, whereby people are not contracted to make themselves available. Outside...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide additional hours to a person (details supplied) under the special needs assistance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16665/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (21 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: 279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16768/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (21 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: 287. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16831/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (21 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: 489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of 14 April 2016, when he will issue payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17067/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (21 Jun 2016)
Pat Breen: Issues relating to employees of the Office of Public Works and their terms and conditions of employment are a matter for my colleague, Pascal Donohoe TD, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Issues relating to the tendering of public contracts are also outside my remit and should be addressed to the Office of Public Procurement which operates as an office of the Department of Public...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: That Department deals with Pobal and Childminding Ireland.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: Yes. That is because the funding comes from Pobal through the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: I thank the Chair and wish her well in her role. I spent five years in a similar position on a different committee. It is a great honour to be a chairperson of an Oireachtas committee. I am sure that her five year tenure will be very fruitful. I want to wish all the other members of the committee well. This is a very powerful committee and it is very important to be a member of this...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation deals with job permits only. It is the remit of the Department of Justice and Equality to deal with regulation of non-nationals, visas, citizenships and residency and this is a matter for the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald or the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton to address. As Deputy Collins knows, we only issue permits where there is a skills...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: That is the Minister's area and Deputy Mitchell O'Connor can answer that afterwards. The Deputy can ask the question.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: In one way, the transformed LEOs are one stop shops. They are totally different from the local enterprise boards of the past. They give advice and signpost financial assistance, a matter about which we spoke, and other supports for those who wish to start their own business. It is important to note that there are 31 LEOs located around the country and that they work closely with Enterprise...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: The LEOs work. They are a resource where people want to start a business, but there is progression in the way a company moves on. The LEOs work with all start-up companies. They also work with sole traders. If one compares the numbers of jobs created by LEOs last year with the results for the year before, there is a probably a reduction in some areas because some of those businesses...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: Yes.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: The commission is statutorily mandated to submit its report and recommendations in the third week of July each year.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: Which subhead is that?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016) Pat Breen: Subhead C6 refers to trade union amalgamations.