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- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Transport: Departmental Transport (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: My Department only requires the use of one motor vehicle for Departmental purposes. In July 2005 the Department purchased a Renault Kangoo van for â¬13,450. That vehicle was replaced in July 2008 by another Renault Kangoo van which cost â¬8,800 net on the trade in of the other van. The technical specifications of the Renault Kangoo van model states that on average the vehicle emits 141...
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: My Department and the Offices of my Department have not awarded any contracts to the company involved and consequently the information requested by the Deputy is not relevant in so far as my Department and its Offices are concerned. The awarding of contracts by the State Agencies that come under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for the State Agencies concerned and,...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons (including those with a disability) with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. Participation on Community Employment has an upper age limit of 65 years of age, i.e. a CE participant/Supervisor...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I can confirm that no staff from my Department attended the conference in question â the 4th Irish Public Private Partnership Policy Forum held in the Gresham Hotel on the 19th June 2008. As attendance at conferences by staff of the agencies under the aegis of my Department is a day to day matter for the agency concerned, I have no function in this area.
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: As at the end of August, the number of people participating on FÃS courses was 40,504. It is not possible to accurately predict the number of participants for 2009 since discussions concerning the 2009 budget are still ongoing.
- Written Answers — Medical Education: Medical Education (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The recruitment of interns is governed by European Community Preference rules and priority must therefore be granted to applicants who are nationals of the EEA Member States ahead of applicants who are nationals of third countries. I am advised by my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, that this requirement is being implemented by the Health Service Executive and the employing...
- Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: My Department is very conscious of its obligations under the Data Protection Acts, and adopts a proactive approach to ensuring that personal data stored by it is kept secure. Physical safeguards, a secure ICT infrastructure and staff awareness programmes play a key role in supporting data protection in my Department. Regarding ICT this is a continuous process, involving a combination of...
- Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: My Department's records indicate the following: 2007 â One BlackBerry device reported stolen. 2008 to date â One laptop reported stolen, one laptop reported missing, one BlackBerry device reported stolen. There have been no USB flash drives reported lost or stolen. My Department invoked the facility to automatically wipe all data from the BlackBerry devices as soon as they were reported...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The Government decided on 8th July last that no further expenditure on the acquisition of accommodation for decentralisation should be sanctioned pending detailed consideration by the Government of two reports: one from the Decentralisation Implementation Group on the feasibility of phased moves by the State Agencies; and one from the Implementation Group of Secretaries General on the...
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: IDA Ireland is actively working with Arklow Chamber of Commerce and Wicklow County Council and the management of Allergan to promote Arklow as a location for a replacement industry or alternative project. IDA has met the management of the company to begin the process of seeking a replacement industry by requesting a profile of the workforce and conducting a detailed audit of the facilities....
- Written Answers — National Training Fund: National Training Fund (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The National Training Fund supports a range of training schemes administered by organisations such as FÃS, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, SFADCo and Skillnets. FÃS delivers training programmes to assist the long-term unemployed, early school leavers, people with disabilities and the socially excluded gain access to the Labour Market. FÃS also delivers apprenticeship training and training...
- Written Answers — Departmental Advertising: Departmental Advertising (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The amounts spent on advertising in the Irish language since the enactment of the Official Languages Act 2003 by my Department and the Offices of my Department are as follows: Year Amount Spent ⬠2003 9,271.75 2004 28,407.20 2005 42,164.69 2006 67,002.08 2007 54,678.00 2008 (To Date) 45,523.93 Total 247,047.65 I am not in a position to supply the information requested by the...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons (including those with a disability) with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: As part of Government policy on mainstreaming all FÃS Services are open to people with disabilities. In this regard the services and programmes in place may be summarised as follows: Main Services provided by FÃS: FÃS operates training and employment programmes; provides a recruitment service to jobseekers and employers; an advisory service for industry; and supports community based...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The basic salary and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer of all of the public agencies under the aegis of my Department are sanctioned by the Department of Finance, in line with recommendations of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector, Reports No. 42 and 43. In addition to the above, the CEO of Science Foundation Ireland is paid an allowance in the nature...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The tables below outline the number of staff by grade in my private and constituency office and in those of each Minister of State within my Department. The cost for 2007 of each such office in terms of salary, overtime and expenses are included together with the projected costs for 2008 to date. Office of the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade & Employment Civil Servants...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons (including those with a disability) with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through...
- Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: 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, for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. I have been informed by the Agency that to date in 2008 there have been three first time site visits to Mayo. For reasons of...
- Written Answers — Employment Levels: Employment Levels (24 Sep 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the industrial development agencies. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level. Figures for 2008 will not be available until early 2009. The numbers employed in IDA supported companies in Co Mayo in each year of the 5 year period 2003-2007 are shown in the...