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Seanad: Farm Safety Agency Bill 2018: Second Stage (29 May 2019)

Pat Breen: I am delighted we are having this debate. I am delighted that my Oireachtas colleagues in the Seanad are raising the awareness of farm safety. It is a really good forum for raising it. I thank Senator Paul Daly for raising the issue. It is really important to have a debate about it. I work with the Health and Safety Authority on a regular basis given the remit I have as Minister of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: I thank Deputy Eugene Murphy for raising this important issue. I know how important this school is to the Deputy. As he noted, we have all had many cases like this raised with us in the course of our political careers. I apologise on behalf of the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, who is attending a very important education conference in Washington. While it is important...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Staff (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: We have all come across cases of this nature in our constituencies and we have made representations on behalf of national schools that are in a similar position. As stated, there is a further appeals process in June and another in October. I encourage the board of management of the school or the local community to see if they can attract those extra students necessary to bring the school up...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Placement (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: I understand exactly what the Deputy means because even though I am not a Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, I have taken a real interest in this issue because of a similar situation arising in Ennis. I apologise on behalf of the Minister, Deputy McHugh, who is away on official Government business. To plan for school provision and analyse the relevant...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Placement (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: The current enrolment in the Presentation secondary school, The Intermediate School and Killorglin community college is 606, 494 and 277, respectively. As the Department has outlined, there are no outstanding applications from any of the schools for additional accommodation. Nevertheless, for the benefit of the Deputy, whose point I understand, I appreciate this is a very stressful time for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. She has always been interested in industrial relations. As I have said in reply to parliamentary questions, Ireland’s system of industrial relations is essentially voluntary in nature and the responsibility for the resolution of industrial disputes between employers and workers rests in the first instance with the employer, the workers and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: It would be inappropriate to comment on ongoing Labour Court recommendations. As I said, Ireland's system of industrial relations is voluntary in nature. The Deputy will be aware that responsibility for the resolution of all industrial relation issues lies with employers and workers and their respective representatives, as appropriate. It is important to make that point. We are very...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: While I have no direct role in the matter, I stand by the professionalism of the industrial relations machinery of the State, which, as the Deputy knows, are always available to facilitate a solution where both parties are prepared to work in their institutions. I encourage the Deputy to have faith in the Labour Court and the Workplace Relations Commission. They are doing a good job.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Relations (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: As I said, as a Minister of State, I cannot comment on the matter.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter. I am responding on behalf of the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, who is unable to be here due to other commitments. The Minister is fully aware of the situation at St. John's special school and, with his officials, he is fully committed to ensuring that the project at the school is carried out as quickly as possible....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 May 2019)

Pat Breen: I always like to give the Deputy good news. As I am always giving her good news with regard to jobs, it is good to give her good news on education in Dungarvan and Waterford. She has outlined a very justified case on the school and its needs. There is willingness on the part of the Department to accept that and to provide the funding required for the extra school spaces. That has been...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority Data (11 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 376 and 386 together. Health and Safety Authority Budget Allocation 2017 - 2019 Year Budget Allocation 2017 €18,112,000 2018 €19,275,000 2019 €19,783,000 The Health and Safety Authority delivers on a broad remit of work across a very wide mandate which includes occupational health and safety, chemical safety, market surveillance and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections Data (11 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: It should be noted that responsibility for the licensing and operation of Funfairs is a policy matter for Housing, Planning and Local Government as the existing legislation dealing with licensing of funfairs, the duties on organisers of funfairs, and the owners of fairground equipment, in the context of public safety, is covered by the Planning and Development Act 2000. The role of the Health...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority Data (11 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: It should be noted that responsibility for the licensing and operation of Funfairs is a policy matter for Housing, Planning and Local Government as the existing legislation dealing with licensing of funfairs, the duties on organisers of funfairs, and the owners of fairground equipment, in the context of public safety, is covered by the Planning and Development Act 2000. The role of the Health...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (13 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: Legislation in relation to the setting of the National Minimum Wage is a policy matter for  my colleague Minister Regina Doherty T.D. at the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.   In so far as my own Department is concerned, Section 41 of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 provides that the Labour Court may exempt an employer from the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Jobs Protection (18 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: I thank the Deputy for raising what he rightly pointed out is an important issue. I am aware of the reports of a planned, temporary cessation of operations at the Analog Devices plant at Raheen in Limerick. I know many employees who work in what is a great company, with 1,200 or more employees in the region. As the Deputy rightly said, it is the European base of Analog Devices. I want...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Jobs Protection (18 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: As the Deputy knows, US foreign direct investment is important in Ireland. Some 70% of FDI comes from the US. That is how important it is and we value all the US investment we have in this country because in the region of 150,000 people are employed as a result of it. On the Taoiseach's meeting with President Trump, as the Deputy knows, the meeting was quite short but my understanding...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Meetings (18 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: The Health and Safety Authority is a State Body, which operates under the aegis of my Department. In this context, my Department officials are in daily contact with the Health and Safety Authority on a range of matters relating to the resourcing, funding and policy and legislative activities of the Health and Safety Authority. The Irish National Accreditation Board, which is the national...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections Data (18 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: As outlined in my reply to a recent Parliamentary Question No. 381 of 11 June 2019 the role of the Health and Safety Authority in relation to funfairs arises in the context of their overall legislative remit on workplace health and safety and the protection of workers at work. In this regard the Health and Safety Authority carried out eighteen (18) inspections from 2011 to date 2019 and the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (18 Jun 2019)

Pat Breen: 525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 464 of 19 February 2019, the moneys due to be paid to a person (details supplied) in each of the years 2015 to 2018; when payment will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25235/19]