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- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (14 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: FÃS provides a fully integrated nationwide range of services and supports for Jobseekers and Job Changers, details of which are set out below. Jobseekers can register at one of the 71 local FÃS offices or 26 Local Employment Services Office nationwide for on-site information, guidance, referral and placement services. FÃS Jobs Ireland (employment service free phone call centre) â...
- Written Answers — Information Obligations: Information Obligations (14 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Lists of information obligations have been compiled in the three main areas of regulation that fall within the remit of my Department: Company Law, Employment Law, and Health & Safety Law. I have arranged to send the lists directly to the Deputy. Prioritisation of the information obligations in these three areas is currently underway, and is expected to be completed by the end of 2008. The...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (14 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: My Department has transposed 11 Directives in the past twelve months. In all cases, these Directives were transposed by secondary legislation, namely Statutory Instruments. A complete list is given below. Full details of all current and recent EU Directives are maintained on the front page of the Department's website, www.entemp.ie. Description of Directive Date Transposed & transposition...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (14 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: There are currently a total of nine Directives due to be transposed by my Department up to 2012. Four of these Directives are currently overdue. The first of these, Directive 2006/42/EC on machinery health and safety requirements, is expected to be transposed by 17 October 2008. It is intended to transpose the second and third overdue Directives, Directive 2006/46/EC on company reporting and...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (14 Oct 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. The programme helps unemployed people to progress to the open labour market by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Deputy Hogan knows all about notes.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I will gladly pay it. I do not have a chauffeur.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Does Fine Gael not represent farmers and commercial interests? I thought they were its constituency.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: It was the Deputy who caused all of this in the first place.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I was listening to the Deputy's contribution.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I note that there has been no reduction in the salaries of the Deputy's colleagues.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: That is sweet coming from the Deputy.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I am not sure.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Okay.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Why is that?
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I am not confused.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The Deputy got his comeuppance this morning.
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The events which we have witnessed over the past few weeks on the international money markets have been characterised by a loss of confidence in financial systems. The scale, depth and impact of this loss of confidence has been unprecedented in our lifetime. Confronted with a challenge of such deep international proportions, the Government was faced with making difficult choices in the...
- Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: We received it on the first day we came in here. We all got a big pack.
- Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (15 Oct 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 insofar 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...